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Ph.D. Faculty and Administration
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Paul Burkhardt
Sustainability Education; Dean, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, 1999; M.A., University of Arizona, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 1993; B.A., University of Arizona, English & American Literature, 1991.
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Paul grew up in the border town of Yuma, Arizona, and remains deeply committed to the people and places of the Arizona/Sonora border region. Paul believes that student learning and faculty scholarship can be most effective and transformative when integrated through participatory, field- and community-based projects. Paul’s academic background in interdisciplinary cultural studies focuses on the role of cultural discourses around the built and natural environment in movements for socio-economic and environmental justice in western communities. Paul has developed these interests into a range of interdisciplinary, community/field-based learning environments on topics such as Fire, Water, Desert Lands, Community-based Management, and Social Movements. Paul has held faculty and administrative positions at various institutions including the University of Arizona, The College of The Bahamas, and Arizona International College.
Paul is the dean for the Adult Degree and Graduate Programs, which also include the Adult Degree Program and the Master of Arts Program.
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Joan Clingan
Sustainability Education
Ph.D., Union Institute & University, 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture, 2008; M.A., University of Santa Monica, Applied Psychology, 1992.
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Joan teaches research design in Prescott College's Ph.D. and M.A. Programs covering a breadth of methods and methodologies and with a particular focus on social justice, action, and community based research. Her personal research uses twentieth century U.S. literature to examine issues of supremacism, marginalization, and oppression, as well as consideration of and action toward change, justice, and sustainability. Her work focuses on writers she identifies as being part of the marginalized majority and who represent a breadth of life circumstances and perspectives in the United States. Joan’s dissertation, “Who is We?: Toward a Theory of Solidarity; Toward a Future of Sustainability,” develops a critical theory based on the philosophies and practices of solidarity and sustainability. In it she considers existing critical social theory and proposes a model that uses solidarity as the framework through which to address supremacist ideology that threatens the sustainability of healthy and diverse human cultures. Joan’s master’s work concentrated on spiritual psychology and her undergraduate work on literature, creative writing, and social change.
Joan's areas of academic interest also include class and culture, specifically as it relates to sustaining diversity in the United States. She is interested in the ways class works in life, scholarship, and activism. Her teaching and research interests focus on the politics of social constructs such as class, race, nation, sexuality, and gender; issues of oppression and resistance; and the potential created by coalitions and solidarity.
Joan started working in higher education in 1987 when she served as the registrar and co-steering director for Peace Theological Seminary. In 1993 she began serving the Master of Arts Program in academic and administrative roles, including turns as the director of academic affairs and director of MAP. In 1999, following MAP's
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to a model with a lead faculty member for each program, Joan was hired as faculty for the humanities program, and continues to serve as chair of humanities. In 2007 she began teaching in the Ph.D. program. In addition to her faculty position Joan is also the program director for MAP.
Joan is also a faculty member and the program director for the College’s Master of Arts Program. |
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Rich Lewis
Library Faculty, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
M.L.I.S., University of Arizona, Library and Information Science, 2003; B.A., University of Washington, English, 1988.
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Rich originally comes from the Pacific Northwest, but has lived in Prescott for over 12 years. His varied background has given him experience installing alternative energy systems, teaching computer networking, studying abroad in both Nepal and France, welding in Alaska, and being a rock climber (that career was ended after an abrupt run-in with terra firma.) Currently, besides being immersed in all things library, he is actively involved with the Prescott College Ultimate Frisbee team.
Rich is the library faculty for the Adult Degree and Graduate Programs, which also include the Adult Degree Program and the Master of Arts Program.
“We are living in a tremendous time. Information is hovering all around us, waiting for us to turn it into knowledge. I truly want to enable students to be able to find the information they seek.” |
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Rick Medrick
Sustainability Education; Ph.D. Program Director
Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado, Humanistic Psychology and Experiential
Education, 1985; University of Colorado, graduate studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Organizational Development, 1963-73. B.A., Dartmouth College, Philosophy and Literature, 1963.
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Rick founded and has been director of Colorado-based Outdoor Leadership Training Seminars (OLTS) since 1973, providing outdoor leaders with extensive training in technical skills, leadership, and group process. Rick has worked for Outward Bound, and been a mountain guide, ski instructor, river outfitter, and corporate trainer. His special interests include deep ecology, ecopsychology, telemark skiing, and the practice of tai chi chuan. Rick is the Ph.D. Program Director, and has served as faculty since the program was inaugurated in the fall of 2005.
Rick is also a faculty member for the College’s Master of Arts Program.
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Pramod Parajuli
Sustainability Education; Director of Program Development in Sustainability Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, International Development Education, 1990; M.A., Stanford University, Anthropology, 1989; B.Law, Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal), Law, 1976; M.Ed., Tribhuvan University, Education, 1976; B.Ed., Tribhuvan University, Education, 1974.
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Born and raised in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal, Pramod brings to Prescott almost thirty years of interdisciplinary scholarship, activist passion, and cutting edge pedagogical innovations. A whole systems thinker and a permaculture practitioner, he is interested in nothing less than the four Ls: life, livelihoods, learning and leadership. He envelopes all four Ls within the emergent fields of sustainability, social justice and bio-cultural diversity. His inquiry unravels the interplay between the ecosphere (the earth household), the humansphere (the human household) and the learningsphere (the ways we learn and engage in inquiry).
With the motto, “Learning and Leadership is the art of the possible,” Pramod likes to inspire and prepare a new generation of educators and leaders who have intellectual, psychological and methodological sophistication to dream, design, create and achieve their won wildest imaginations. He has designed and developed various academic and community empowerment programs including the Learning Gardens and the Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning (LECL), a graduate program at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon (2002-2008). At Prescott College, he is incubating several new innovations that could build on its forty years of accomplishments and seek new heights and horizons. He sees rich potential in creating Bio-regional Learning Community HUBS for Prescott students, alumni and mentors in each bioregion. In the long run, he is also imagining Prescott College community being fully engaged in the restoration and regeneration of water and food systems in the Colorado plateau.
While teaching core courses for the Doctoral Program in Sustainability Education, Pramod is interested in enriching the interdisciplinary content of social justice, ecological design, and bio-cultural diversity for masters and undergraduate students at Prescott.
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Randall Amster
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Justice Studies, 2002; J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1991; B.S., University of Rochester, Physics & Astronomy, 1988.
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Before coming to Prescott College, Randall worked as an attorney, a judicial clerk, and an instructor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. He is a homeless-rights advocate, a sustainable-community activist, an anti-war organizer, and has published widely on subjects ranging from radical pedagogy to community building to the global justice movement. Teaching courses at Prescott College in Peace Studies and Social Thought (including Social Movements, Law and Social Change, and Human Rights) has provided a unique opportunity for Randall to combine his scholarly pursuits and his activist passions, and to continue his explorations of social justice, political action, and peace education.
Publications:
Amster, Randall. 2004. Street People and the Contested Realms of Public Space. NY: LFB Scholarly.
Lauderdale, Pat, and Randall Amster (eds.). 1997. Lives in the Balance: Perspectives on Global Injustice and Inequality. NY: Brill.
Amster, Randall. 2003. "Patterns of Exclusion: Sanitizing Space, Criminalizing Homelessness," Social Justice, v30/n1.
Amster, Randall. 2002. "Globalization and Its Discontents," The New Formulation: An Anti-Authoritatian Review of Books, v1/n2.
"It truly is a blessing to be part of a dynamic community that seeks to make education more than just a goal, but a way of ‘being in the world’ that promotes right relations both among humans and with the natural environment. This includes helping to make concepts such as justice, peace, and ecology part of the everyday experience of students, extending the workings of the classroom far beyond the schoolhouse walls. Prescott College is one of those rare places where one can learn to take seriously the responsibilities of being a ‘citizen of the earth,’ and still have great fun in the process!"
Randall is also a faculty member for the College’s Resident Degree Program.
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Joel Barnes
Ph.D., Union Institute & University, Environmental Conservation and Education, 2005; M.S., California State University at Humboldt, Natural Resource Studies in Wilderness and Water Resource Management, 1991; B.A., Prescott College, Environmental Sciences and Education, 1981.
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Joel has designed and taught a number of college-level interdisciplinary field programs across the Colorado Plateau and Mexico, Latin America, Alaska, and New Zealand. Joel's professional interests emphasize the integration of environmental studies and adventure education with backcountry travel and bioregional explorations. Joel's doctoral studies had him conducting research in the Grand Canyon National Park to support Wild and Scenic River designation for the Colorado River and its tributaries.
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Barnes J., "Wild and Scenic Rivers in the Grand Canyon Ecoregion," River Management Society News, 13 (3). Fall 2000. Missoula, Mont: River Management Society.
Tershy B., Bourillon L., Meltzer L., Barnes J., "A Survey of Ecotourism on Islands in Northwestern Mexico." Environmental Conservation, 26 (3) 1999: 214-217.
"Through teaching and advising I encourage students to wrap their education around their passions and run with it. I feel lucky to be part of an academic community that encourages this approach to learning."
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Jeanine Canty
Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, Transformative Learning and Change, 2007; M.A., Prescott College, Cultural Ecopsychology, 2000; B.A., Colgate University, International Relations, 1992.
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Education, awareness, and transformation are revered processes for Jeanine. She believes that teachers have immense power for creating change and awakening critical thinking skills in their students. Her favorite courses to teach are Ecopsychology and Educating for the Future: Environmental and Cultural Issues. Her areas of passion include ecopsychology, consciousness, transformative learning, environmental and social justice and cultural studies. She is very interested in the process individuals go through to reach heightened awareness of environmental and social justice. Jeanine is involved with multiple social justice and consciousness based organizations. Much of her understanding has come through her experience as an African American woman living in privileged communities.
Jeanine is also a faculty member for the College’s Adult Degree Program.
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Richard Cellarius
Ph.D. The Rockefeller University, Biological Science, 1965; B.A., Reed College, Physics, 1958.
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Richard is an Emeritus Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College, where he taught for 27 years and was Director of the graduate program in Environmental Studies before retiring to Prescott. He previously was on the botany faculty of The University of Michigan. Richard has been an active volunteer with the Sierra Club for over 30 years, including two years as its national president. He is also active with IUCN-The World Conservation Union. His current interests focus on global environmental sustainability. Richard has a broad range of teaching interests, including all aspects of environmental studies-particularly ecological principles and environmental history, philosophy, and policy-plant physiology, technical writing, biological energetics and statistics.
Richard is also a faculty member for the College’s Master of Arts Program.
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Steven Corey
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Higher Education Finance, 2007; M.B.A., Cumberland University; M.S., Arizona State University.
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As Chief Operating Officer, Steven is responsible for planning and directing all aspects of the College’s administrative and operational policies, objectives, and initiatives. He is also responsible for directing all of the College’s overall financial policies and overseeing all financial functions as the chief financial officer. This also includes direct responsibility for a variety of functional areas, including: accounting and financial services, legal counsel, institutional development/fundraising, public relations, risk management, sponsored programs and research, strategic planning, institutional research and technology, human resources, auxiliary enterprises, campus planning, physical plant/facilities, transportation services/motor pool, campus post office, and campus safety. Dr. Corey also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the areas of nonprofit management and other business and educational management related areas.
Prior to joining Prescott College, Dr Corey held the position of Fellow for Administrative Collaboratives with the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association. Prior to TICUA, he spent ten years with Cumberland University where he held the positions of Vice President for Administration, Vice President for Athletics, Director of Sports Medicine, and was a member of the teaching faculty. In 2006, Dr Corey was appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to serve on the Arizona State Commission for Postsecondary Education. He is also an active member in the community where he serves on several boards, including the Central Arizona Land Trust where he is the Board President, the City of Prescott’s Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Open Space, and the Yavapai County Education Foundation. |
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Anita Fernández
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Language, Reading and Culture, 2001; M.A. University of Arizona, Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997; B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, English, 1990.
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Anita brings with her to Prescott College a passion for working with future teachers. She is committed to issues of equity and access to education, particularly in public school settings. As a former high school English teacher in Tucson, Anita understands the need for compassionate, caring and committed teachers in our schools to teach in a manner that puts students’ lives at the center of their curriculum.
Before joining the Prescott College faculty in 2005, Anita taught in the teacher preparation program at CSU, Chico. Her areas of research interest include the use of autobiography in teacher education; multicultural, anti-racist education, and education as the practice of freedom. She has published articles in a variety of journals including It's not so elementary: Practices to disrupt homophobia in teacher education classes, which was recently feature on EdChange Multicultural Pavillion, an online research room.
Anita is also a faculty member for the College’s Resident Degree Program.
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Dan Garvey
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, Social and Multi-cultural Foundations; M.A., Social Change, Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School of Social Change; B.A., Worcester State College, Sociology. Email
Dan Garvey is Prescott College’s 13th president. Prior to his position at Prescott College he was a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire, teaching and researching in the area of experiential education. Before that he had a 25-year career as an administrator and educator focused on education reform and improvement. He is a former VISTA Volunteer and Upward Bound Director, President and Executive Director of the Association for Experiential Education, has sailed around the world three times as Dean of the Semester at Sea Program through the University of Pittsburgh, served as Vice President for the American Youth Foundation, was Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of New Hampshire, and served on the AmeriCorps Executive Committee and participated in writing the first program grant. He is the recipient of the UNH School of Health Studies 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 1997 Kurt Hahn Award recipient, and the 2002 Julian Smith Award recipient. He has authored more than 25 books and articles dealing with the broad topic of experiential education. He is a currently serving as a Trustee of NOLS, and is on the Board of Directors of Project Adventure. Most recently he has been appointed by Arizona’s Gov. Napolitano to the Arizona State Commission on Service and Volunteerism.
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Ed Grumbine
Ph.D., The Union Institute, Environmental Policy, 1991; M.S., University of Montana, 1982; B.A., Antioch College, 1976.
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Ed Grumbine teaches in the RDP/Environmental Studies program at Prescott College. Before coming to Prescott, Ed directed the Sierra Institute Wildlands Studies program at UC Santa Cruz, CA for 21 years. Much of his professional work focuses on bringing conservation biology principles into federal land management practice. Ed’s writings include Ghost Bears: Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis, and Environmental Policy and Biodiversity among numerous other publications. He lives in Prescott, AZ. |
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Jack Herring
Ph.D., University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, 1994; B.S. University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Chemistry, 1989.
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In his academic career, Jack has focused on understanding the Earth as an integrated system and exploring to what degree human activities are interfering with that system. Current research projects include a study of cancer-causing air pollutants in Phoenix and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from different ecosystems in Arizona. Jack is also keenly interested in how we can solve environmental problems by developing consensus among stakeholders. He is involved with collaborative groups that are tackling some of the key environmental issues in Arizona, including the protection of our public forests.
"The human species has reached a developmental stage where we have the power to perturb natural systems on a global scale. As democratic societies grapple with complex global environmental issues, all citizens need effective tools to help them become more sophisticated decision-makers. There is no more important task than to provide effective education that empowers individuals to face these challenges."
Publications:
Herring, J.A., A. Muro and T. Crews. "Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Interior Chaparral in the Southwestern United States," Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A11F-0040, 2003.
Jack is also a faculty member and dean for the College’s Resident Degree Program.
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Pete Lavigne
J.D. Vermont Law School 1985, M.S.E.L. Vermont Law School 1983; B.A., Oberlin College Government and Geology 1980.
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Pete serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the new Center for Generative Solutions in Gunnison Colorado, and was a co-founder of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas, a public foundation devoted to Clean Water, Biodiversity and Human Health in North, Central and South America. A regular commentator and analyst on environmental issues for CNN Radio, Pete is also Senior Fellow in the Executive Leadership Institute’s Watershed Management Professional Program, and an adjunct associate professor of Public Administration in the Mark O. Hatfield Graduate School of Government at Portland State University. He is an environmental lawyer and author or co-author of dozens of articles and presentations on environmental and other issues in publications as diverse as the New York Times, the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Journal and River Voices.
As Director of River Network’s national River Leaders Program from 1992-1996 he formed the River Alliance of Wisconsin and helped to start or strengthen over twenty other state and regional river watershed protection groups throughout the United States and Canada. He is co-author of a book on land use and aesthetic preservation, Vermont Townscape, and has chapters in the books Voices for the Watershed: Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage Basin and Forest Communities, Community Forests. He has served as executive director of the Merrimack River Watershed Council, as Northeast Coordinator for American Rivers, executive director of the Westport River Watershed Alliance, as Deputy Director of For the Sake of the Salmon, and as legislative lobbyist for the Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Pete has extensive experience in political campaigns including several presidential primary campaigns in New Hampshire, including Mo Udall’s 1976 Presidential campaign where Pete co-organized a group of 30 Oberlin students working on the campaign and was a field coordinator and alternate delegate candidate. He most recently was professor of environmental studies and director of the Colorado Water Workshop at Western State College of Colorado and was awarded a Fulbright to study in Brazil in summer 2007. Past jobs include work in construction, various factories, mills, foundries, farms and livestock operations, and stints in editing and publishing, high school teaching, and house painting and repair. He is also an avid reader, sea kayaker and mountain climber. Pete’s research interests include global and regional water policy; environmental governance; river, watershed and ecosystem management; civic capacity; and globalization.
Pete is also a faculty member for the College’s Master of Arts Program.
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Shari Leach
Ph.D., Union Institute & University, Cultural Self-Awareness, 2006; M.A., Prescott College, Humanities: Facilitating Community Development, 2001; B.A., University of Colorado, Environmental Conservation, 1995.
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Shari began her work in adventure education in the 1980s, working month-long wilderness backpacking courses for a small summer camp in the mountains of Colorado. Since that time, she has worked for numerous small and large wilderness corporations, including Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). She still leads courses regularly for NOLS and teaches for the Wilderness Medicine Institute. Shari served in the Peace Corps in Honduras, specializing in environmental education and natural resource management. She is fluent in Spanish as well as English.
Shari completed her master’s degree through Prescott College, developing an alternate theory of stages of group development, and creating a workbook/curriculum for groups learning to work together. Her thesis has since been revised and published. Her doctoral dissertation explored the influence of cross cultural living on the individual’s awareness of her/his culture of origin.
In addition to her work in the field of adventure education, Shari has hands on experience with teaching facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills with neighborhood groups, non-profits, and corporations. She spent four years volunteering with sexual assault crisis and prevention programs. Shari’s passions include teaching rock climbing, facilitating leadership and self-awareness, serving her local community and the earth, and teaching wilderness medicine.
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Dereka Rushbrook
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Geography, 2005; M.S., University of Texas at Austin, Economics, 1997; B.S., University of Pittsburgh, Economics and Political Science, Certificate in Latin American Studies, 1985.
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Dereka's doctoral work centered on the global political economy and human-environment interactions of resource-intensive artisanal production in the highlands of central Mexico. Her graduate studies in economics were also focused on issues of development and social justice in Latin America, specifically agricultural export diversification in Central America. Her areas of academic interest also include sexuality and space, border studies and immigration, and social justice movements, especially along the Arizona-Sonora border. In addition to her work at Prescott, Dereka teaches classes at the University of Arizona such as Gender and Geography, Arizona and the Southwest, and Urban Growth and Development.
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Priscilla Stuckey
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Religion and Gender, 1997; M.A., Pacific School of Religion, Historical Studies, 1985; B.A., Goshen College, Interdisciplinary: Music, Bible, Religion, 1979; B.S. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Psychology, 1973.
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In her doctoral work Priscilla studied feminist theory and world religions, investigating the constructions of gender and nature in religious groups using theory from history, anthropology, and philosophy. Gender justice was at the heart of her master's program as well, with its emphasis on American women's religious history. The arts have been an important influence throughout her life, beginning in her childhood with a capella singing in church and continuing in college as a music major studying and teaching oboe and voice; more recently she has become a ceramic artist, with a special interest in pit fire methods. Since 1983 she has worked as a professional book editor and has coached many authors toward completion of their manuscripts. In her spare time she advocates on behalf of urban creeks and was the founder and first president of a small land trust preserving creek headwaters in Oakland, California. Her academic work now spans the humanities, drawn together by issues of spirituality, culture, and the environment.
Priscilla is also a faculty member for the College’s Master of Arts Program.
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Kim Langmaid
M.A., Prescott College, Environmental Studies, 1997; B.S., Colorado State University, Biological Sciences, 1989.
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Kim's involvement with Prescott College began in 1996 while she was a student in Teton Science School's Professional Residency in Environmental Education and a student in the Master of Arts Program. After writing her thesis on place-based environmental education, Kim founded the Gore Range Natural Science School in her home community-the Eagle River Watershed of Colorado. Now that the Science School is firmly established Kim's energies currently focus on training and professional development opportunities for environmental educators. As the Science School's Graduate Programs Director, Kim oversees the development and instruction of graduate courses. Prior to becoming faculty in MAP, Kim served as a Graduate Advisor in MAP for five years.
Kim is currently earning her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. Her dissertation explores the human dimensions of climate change from a phenomenological perspective. The outcome of her dissertation will serve to promote a critical place-based pedagogy for global environmental change. Kim's teaching and research interests include: environmental education and sustainability education, environmental philosophy, human dimensions of climate change, mountain studies, cultural geography, and qualitative research methods. She has over 15 years experience working in nonprofit environmental education organizations and she enjoys working with students who envision establishing environmental programs and serving their communities. Kim's passion for environmental studies is continually sparked through outdoor experiences and ecological observations. She has studied with the National Outdoor Leadership School, University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station, and University of Colorado's Mountain Research Station. She is a passionate naturalist, hiker, and backcountry skier.
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James Pittman
M.Sc. with distinction, University of Edinburgh, Ecological Economics, 2004; M.A., Antioch University Seattle, Whole Systems Design, 2001; B.A., Prescott College, Ecopsychology, Education and Sustainability, 1997.
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James Pittman is an Associate Faculty member in the MAP Environmental Studies department with focus on the Concentration in Sustainability Science and Practice and a resource consultant for the college's Ph.D. program in Sustainability Education. He is also the Managing Director of a leading ecological economics think-tank and consultancy, the non-profit Earth Economics in Seattle, where he has spent several years as a Senior Consultant serving public and private sector clients with a focus on ecosystem service modeling, sustainability indicator assessment and stakeholder engagement facilitation.
James has been a sustainability consultant for over a decade, serving as a consultant to the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the USDA Forest Service, the US Department of Energy the City of Washington D.C., the Washington State Department of Ecology, the EcoSage Corporation, a Fortune 50 software corporation as well as various other agencies, corporations, non-profits and public utilities. With strong entrepreneurial inclinations he worked with others to found and/or manage a number of non-profit organizations and businesses. He teaches systems thinking and dynamic modeling at the prestigious Bainbridge Graduate Institute in their Sustainable Business MBA program. He is also a published author and accomplished speaker in collaboration with an extensive international network of colleagues in ecological economics, organizational development and education for sustainability.
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Last updated July 23, 2008.
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