NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

Two new faculty members will be joining the ENVS Department this year.

Michael Dorsey, who was a visiting Thurgood Marshall Fellow in 2001- 2002 and an instructor last year, has accepted a full-time position in Environmental Studies effective July 1, 2003. Michael’s main research area is Ecuador, and he studies international equity and issues related to the politics of biological resources. In the coming academic year, Michael will teach a first-year seminar (Culture, Class, Space: Mapping Environmental Justice), an upper-level seminar (The Other Drug War: Biodiversity and Bioprospecting), and ENVS 3 (Environment and Society) with Rich Howarth. Michael’s office is in 105 Fairchild.

Darren Ranco (Dartmouth 1993), has accepted a full-time position at Dartmouth effective July 1. His appointment is half in Native American Studies and half in Environmental Studies. Darren’s main research area is the Penobscot Indians of eastern Maine. Darren studies the ways in which indigenous communities resist environmental disturbance by using local knowledge and other information. In the coming academic year, Darren will teach an upper-level seminar cross-listed with NAS (Contemporary Native American Environmental Issues) and will teach a course called Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (also cross-listed with NAS). Darren has an office in NAS and another office in 1 09A Fairchild.

SUSTAINABLE NEW ENGLAND INITIATIVE

A new research and teaching project is underway in the ENVS department called the Sustainable New England Initiative. The objective of the project is to enhance the interdisciplinary nature of our undergraduate major while conducting research on sustainability in New England. We have created three teaching and research working groups that address sustainability of the local environment, economy, and communities while fostering interactions among faculty, undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The working groups will use the agricultural areas adjacent to the Connecticut River including the Dartmouth Organic Farm, Mt. Moosilauke and the Second College Grant as study areas. Funding for this project has come from the Henry Luce Foundation.