My Service Work

In addition to serving on departmental committees, advising PhD and Master’s students, and performing related departmental duties, I am active in organizing colloquia and conferences, guest lecturing, participating in arctic working groups, and working on campus greening projects. Click HERE for my working groups and HERE for my greening work.

In my tenure at George Mason and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Miami of Ohio I have been excited to serve the campus and the greater community by giving guest lectures. Not only do I like to go the extra mile but I also feel a strong commitment to making the fruits of higher education accessible to all.

Here is a partial list of guest lectures I have done:

-Oct 2005 Guest lecture on Climate Change for Osher Lifelong Learning, GMU

-Mar 2005 Facilitator, Globalization & Gender: Faculty Development Day GMU

-Mar 2005 Panel member, Discussion on Environmentalism GMU

-Feb 2004 Participation as Empowerment: Sustainable Communities Research. Miami University (MU).

-Dec 2003 Contemplating Future Sustainability in Post-Soviet Siberia, Environmental Science, MU.

-Dec 2003 Russia’s Environment: History, Culture and Contemporary Issues, International Studies, MU.

-Nov 2003 Indigenous Ideas of Sustainability in Northern Russia, Havighurst Colloquium, MU.

-April 2003 Cows, Kin, and Future Sustainability. Department of Anthropology Colloquium, MU.

-Nov 2002 Cows and Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha, Geography Departmental Colloquium, MU.

-Oct 2002 Environmental Justice in Russia? Russia’s Environment: Prospects and Possibilities, MU.

-Oct 2002 Discussant, Placing Gender in Postcommunism, MU.

In Fall 2005 I organized the GMU Environmental Science & Policy departmental seminar series, “Perspectives in Human Ecology,” with 6 guest lecturers speaking on various aspects of human-environment issues including:

  • October 11
    Forestalling Catastrophic Climate Change:  Our Generation's Task  
     Willett Kempton, Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies, and Senior Policy Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware
  • October 18
    Population and Development in Siberia and Northern Russia
     Timothy Heleniak, Faculty Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Maryland
  • October 25
    Bridging Human and Environmental Studies in the North: A Vision for International Polar Year 2007-2008
     Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution
  • November 15
    The Search for a Past. The Prehistory of the Indigenous Saami in Northern Coastal Sweden
     Noel Broadbent, Smithsonian Institution
  • November 29
    Pipelines in Siberia: Debating Conservation, Development, and Heritage
     Kathy Metzo, UNC-Charlotte & Ellen Bielawski, UAlberta
  • November 29
    Diamonds on Dene Land: A Canadian Story
     Ellen Bielawski, University of Alberta, Edmonton

In Fall 2003 I organized colloquia and symposia for the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University including the Third Annual International Young Researcher’s Conference entitled, Russia in Global Context: Peoples, Policies, and Environments and a three-day film residency, Window to the North, by Russian filmmaker and ethnographer, Andrei Golovnev. To see a special issue of Polar Geogrpahy with most of the young researchers' papers, see 2003 Russia in the Circumpolar North. Polar Geography, 27(2).  

In fall 2002 I helped coordinate and actively direct a symposium through Miami University’s Institute of Environmental Science entitled “Russian Environmental Issues: Problems and Prospects.” Follow the lik here: http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter/Old%20Website/iessymp.htm