Scholarly Work - History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
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“Whenever we exist on any land, we know it is our country”: Cocopa Mobility and the Colorado River in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1887–1936
(Oxford University Press, 2023-01)This article argues that between the 1890s and the 1920s, Cocopa Indians successfully parried the threats of expanding settler nation-states and modern capitalism by adapting ancestral mobility patterns to modern constraints ... -
Elegant conservation: reimagining protected area stewardship in the 21st century
(Resilience Alliance, Inc., 2023-01)We present an approach to the conservation of protected areas that aligns cultural truths with scientific truths to increase community capacity for conservation. This alignment, which we call elegant conservation, asks ... -
Understanding the Problem of “Hype”: Exaggeration, Values, and Trust in Science
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-12)Several science studies scholars report instances of scientific “hype,” or sensationalized exaggeration, in journal articles, institutional press releases, and science journalism in a variety of fields (e.g., Caulfield and ... -
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-06)The transition between the Early Bronze Age IV and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant remains poorly understood, stemming in part from traditional approaches to the problem that frame it in terms of exogenous ... -
Reparative agency and commitment in William James’ pragmatism
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-02)This paper highlights a central feature of William James’ pragmatism to challenge the conflicting charges that his political and ethical thought amounts to either a Hamlet-like impotence or a Promethean-like sovereignty. ... -
Metaphorical and Literal Groundings: Unsettling Groundless Normativity in Environmental Ethics
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2020-01)Accounts of grounded normativity in Indigenous philosophy can be used to challenge the groundlessness of Western environmental ethical approaches such as Aldo Leopold’s land ethic. Attempts to ground normativity in mainstream ... -
Absent autonomy: Relational competence and gendered paths to faculty self-determination in the promotion and tenure process
(2018-09)This research examines ways in which men and women university faculty sought self-determination in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2012) research tends to view autonomy ... -
Disentangling canid howls across multiple species and subspecies: Structure in a complex communication channel
(2016-03)Wolves, coyotes, and other canids are members of a diverse genus of top predators of considerable conservation and management interest. Canid howls are long-range communication signals, used both for territorial defence ... -
The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture
(Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS) at Korea University and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) at the University of California, Berkeley, 2015-12)This article considers the discourse surrounding the popular Chinese table game of mahjong in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using it as a barometer to trace social and cultural changes during the late Qing and ... -
Against the Anthropocene. A Neo-Materialist Perspective
(2015-04)The dawning realization that the planet may have entered a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene could prove transformative. However, over the course of its brief history, the Anthropocene concept has often been ... -
Coyote recordings [dataset]
(2014-06)Audio recordings of coyote vocalizations in various locations in the American West, recorded between 9 March 2011 and 26 December 2013.