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Master Teacher of Liberal Studies Program; Environmental Studies Program
Ph.D. and M.S. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology
M.A. University of Illinois-Chicago, Linguistics
B.S. Ithaca College, Biology and Music
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Area of Interests: Environmental Studies; Environmental History; Conservation Ecology; Utopian Studies
Course(s) Taught: Environmental Studies (LS/GLS); Honors Seminar in Environmental Research (Environmental Studies, CAS)
Teaching Statement: Bringing to the task my formal training as an ecologist, I use a narrative approach to teach a foundational course in environmental studies. My students and I work together to unfold a multi-faceted story of human relationships with the rest of nature. This story reaches back through the ages, but has had unprecedented consequences much more recently. The course incorporates scientific ways of knowing about the observable world and also cultural and personal ones. It is an open inquiry into what human thoughts, values, and actions may or may not be mutually beneficial to Earth and all its life.
My published writings include a book titled Aldo Leopold's Odyssey about one of America's best-respected 20th century conservation thinkers (1887-1948). Situated within the context of the American conservation movement, this shows the development of Leopold's idea of land health--what he hoped would become an ecologically grounded standard for right ways to think about and use nature.
My current writing projects include: 1) Exploring the relationship between hope and uncertainty in the Anthropocene. To help me do so I am studying the legacy of Western utopian literature through the lens of ecological, evolutionary, and cosmological understandings. I am also probing the legacy of Western scientific literature in relation to the modern ideal of land health, an ecological vision of mutually beneficial relationships for humans and the rest of Earth’s community. 2) I am contemplating the haunting consequences of extinct birdsongs within the geography of our minds.
Publication(s):
Note: Some of my previous work was published under the last name "Newton."
Book:
- Newton, J. L. 2006. Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey [Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac]. Washington, D.C.: Shearwater Books/Island Press, 483pp. In paperback, February 2008.
Book Chapters:
- Newton, J. L. October, 2008. "Science, Recreation, and Leopold’s Quest for a Durable Scale." Pages 97-118 in Nelson, M. and J. B. Callicott. The Wilderness Debate Rages On. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 704 pp.
- Freyfogle, E.T. and J. L. Newton. 2003. "Putting Science in Its Place." Pages 23-33 in Armstrong, S. J. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence, Third edition. Chapter 1. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 624 pp. (First published in 2002 in Conservation Biology 16(4): 863-873).
Other Published Works:
- Warren, J.L. Forthcoming 2011. “Urgent: Dreams.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. DOI 10.1007/s13412-011-0039-7.
- Warren, J.L. 2011. “Weeds, Seeds, and Shovels: Three Lessons of Two Sisters Living Land Health.” The Outlook, Summer: 11-16.
- Warren, J.L. 2011. “Running.” (a fictional short story) Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18 (2): 455-461.
- Warren, J.L. 2010. Archive Feature: "Weaving a Wider Web for Conservation: Aldo Leopold's Water Ethic." Organization and Environment. 23(2): 220-239
- Warren, J.L., and S. Kieffer. "Risk Management and the Wisdom of Aldo Leopold." Risk Analysis 30 (2):165-174.
- Warren, J.L. 2009. (Panel with Susan Flader, Bill McKibben, Curt Meine, Jed Purdy, Paul Sabin) "Leopold's Evolving, Emerging Place in American Environmental History." Celebrating 100 Years of Leopold at Yale F&ES. New Haven, CT, 3 April. Netcast: http://environment.yale.edu/leopold/pages/program/
- Warren, J.L. 2007. "Alienation or Intimacy?: The Roles of Science in the Cultural Narratives of Gifford Pinchot and John Burroughs." American Transcendental Quarterly 21:4: 249-259
- Newton, J. L., E. T. Freyfogle and W. C. Sullivan. 2007. Viewpoint: "Land, Ecology and Democracy: A Twenty-First Century View." Politics and the Life Sciences 25(1-2): 42-56.
- Newton, J. L. and E. T. Freyfogle. 2005. Conservation Forum: "Sustainability: A Dissent." Conservation Biology 19(1): 23-32.
- Newton, J. L. and E. T. Freyfogle. 2005. Conservation Forum (invited response): "All About Nature." Conservation Biology 19(1): 42-44.
- Newton, J. L. and W. C. Sullivan. 2005. "Culture, Nature, and Civil Society." Journal of Civil Society 1(3): 195-209.
- Newton, J. L. 2004. "The Many Stories of Starlings." The Illinois Steward 13(2): 23-26.
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