Changing the Atmosphere

The AAA Global Climate Change Task Force is pleased to present a monthly column in Anthropology News called Changing the Atmosphere. This features anthropologists who work on climate change and more. Read the latest column here. 

Questions about the column? Contact Sarah Strauss at strauss@uwyo.edu.

Objectives

To facilitate anthropological contributions to interdisciplinary research that can be made without sacrificing disciplinary rigor and promote engagement with an array of policy issues; and to produce a guiding document to recognize anthropological contributions to global climate change-related issues, articulate new research directions, and provide the AAA with actions and recommendations to support and promote anthropological investigation of these issues including the development of course curricula and application of anthropological theory and methods to the issues.

Read more about this Task Force in the November 2011 Anthropology News.

Duration of Task Force: 3 years (June 2011 - May 2014)

Task Force Reports to: Executive Board

Membership and Appointment: 11 appointed members

Shirley Fiske
Climate Change Task Force Chair
Research Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland
shirley.fiske@verizon.net

Susan Crate
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
George Mason University
scrate1@gmu.edu

Carole L Crumley
Research Professor, Swedish Agricultural University Centre for Biodiversity
Research Director, IHOPE, Uppsala University
Professor of Anthropology (emerita), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
crumley@unc.edu

Kathleen Galvin
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Co-Director, Institute for Society, Landscape and Ecosystem Change
Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu

Heather Lazrus
Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology/Societal Impacts Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
hlazrus@ucar.edu

George Luber
Associate Director for Climate Change
Climate Change Program
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
gluber@cdc.gov

Lisa Lucero
Professor of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ljlucero@illinois.edu

Anthony Oliver Smith
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
aros@ufl.edu

Ben Orlove
Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Bso5@columbia.edu

Sarah Strauss
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
strauss@uwyo.edu

Richard R Wilk
Provost Professor
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University
wilkr@indiana.edu

Staff Liaison and contact information: Amy Goldenberg, agoldenberg@aaanet.org, 703/528-1902 x1184 (phone), 703/528-3546 (fax)