Ph.D., York University, 1997
Associate Professor of
Environmental Studies
Environmental
Program / Rubenstein
School of Environment & Natural Resources
Adrian Ivakhiv is an Associate Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture with a joint appointment in the Environmental Program and the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources. He regularly teaches the core courses Nature and Culture and Research Methods in Environmental Studies, as well as electives including Ecopolitics and the Cinema, Environmental Ethics, The Culture of Nature, and the graduate-level Environmental Thought & Culture Research Seminar. He coordinates the Rubenstein School's graduate concentration in Environmental Thought and Culture.
With degrees in Fine Arts Studies (B.F.A.) and Environmental Studies (M.E.S. and Ph.D.) and previous appointments in departments of Religious Studies & Anthropology (at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) and Science and Technology Studies (at Atkinson College, York University), Adrian's interdisciplinary background includes work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. He is the author of Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (Indiana University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, and Nature, Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, a former President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, and on the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
Canadian
by birth, Adrian's recent research on
culture and environment has taken him to Kyiv
(a.k.a. Kiev), Ukraine, and the Carpathian mountains
of east central Europe, Cape
Breton Island and Haida
Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off either coast of
Canada, the U.S. Southwest, southwest England, and most
recently the Northeast
Kingdom of Vermont. In a previous life
as a choral conductor and ethno-psych-folk-punk-fusion
musician, he performed at monasteries in Egypt, concert stages (well,
two or three) in Ukraine, and at the Canadian Parliament Buildings in
Ottawa (honestly, once). When
he isn't teaching, researching
and writing, he makes
music, hikes in the Green Mountains, eats Vermont's artisanal
cheeses, and reads The
Nation, Grist,
Spacing, and Ji
Magazine. He has lived in Burlington since 2003. From his
west-facing window he watches for Champ.
► Click here
to
listen to an interview with Adrian on Krista Tippett's National
Public Radio program "SPEAKING OF FAITH".
And here
to read the transcript.
► Click here for an interview with the UVM "View."
► Click here for IMMANENCE, a geophilosophy (environmental cultural theory) blog.
► And here for the Immanence Shadow Blog, which shares items on environmental cultural theory, ecomedia, etc. from around the blogosphere.
Adrian's research and teaching interests constellate at the intersections of ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT (environmental ethics and philosophy) and CULTURAL STUDIES (issues of cultural identity, ethnicity and regionalism, nationalism and transnationalism, media studies, visual culture, social justice), or what could be called "THE CULTURE OF NATURE."
Click on the following links for further information, a selection of readings/writings, etc.:
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Some other areas of interest include:
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