Charles Zerner

Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professorship in Environmental Studies

Courses: New Nature: Environmental Design in the Twenty-First Century, Dominance by Design: Technology, Environment, and War in an Age of Empire

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B.A., Clark University. M.Arch., University of Oregon. J.D., Northeastern University. Special interests in environmental ethnography, political ecology, environmental justice, law, language, and culture, environmental security and public policy; ethnographic fieldwork with Mandar fishing communities of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and reef management in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands; former program director, the Rainforest Alliance; contributor and editor, People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation and Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia; and co-editor, Representing Communities: Politics and Histories of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Co-editor, with Banu Subramaniam and Elizabeth Hartmann, of Making Threats: Bio-fears and Environmental Anxieties (AltaMira Press, 2005). Residencies at the University of California Irvine; Humanities Research Institute; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; grants include Fulbright Hayes fellowship for fieldwork in Indonesia, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council. SLC, 2000-