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Eileen Crist received her Bachelor's degree from Haverford College in sociology in 1982 and her doctoral degree from Boston University in 1994, also in sociology, with a specialization in life sciences and society. Her early research focused on animal behavior science and the ways scientists conceptualize, or avoid conceptualizing, the question of animal mind. Her interest in this topic was driven by the conviction that western discourses, heavily influenced by anthropocentric doctrines, have underestimated the real depths of animal awareness. She continues to hold an active interest in this topic, while increasingly devoting her energies to the foremost crisis of our time: the destruction of the Earth's biological diversity and wild places. This irreversible, far-reaching loss has not received sufficient attention in academic and public arenas, with so many people staying myopically focused on the economy, energy issues, !
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depletion of resources, technological fixes, sociopolitical strife, and other strictly-human concerns.
She has been teaching at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society since 1997, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and coeditor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. She is also author of numerous academic papers and contributor to the late journal Wild Earth. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia with her husband Rob Patzig. |
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| 2010 | Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. First editor. Co-edited with H. Bruce Rinker, Cambridge: MIT Press. | ||
| 2004 | Scientists on Gaia: The New Century. Co-edited with Steve Schneider, Jim Miller, and Penelope Boston, Cambridge: MIT Press. | ||
| 2000 | Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 245pp. | ||
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| 2010 | Intimations of Gaia. In Gaia in Turmoil, Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds., MIT Press, 2009, pp. 491-522. |  |
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| One grand organic whole. In Gaia in Turmoil, Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds., MIT Press, pp. 2-32. (co-authored with ecologist H. Bruce Rinker.) | |
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| Cloning in restorative perspective. Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past, Marcus Hall, ed., Rutgers University Press, 2010, pp. 284-292. | |
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| 2008 | Against the social construction of nature and wilderness. In The Wilderness Debate Rages On, Volume II, Michael Nelson and J. Baird Callicott, eds., University of Georgia Press, pp. 500-525. (Reprinted from Environmental Ethics, 26(1):5-24, 2004.) | |
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| 2007 | Beyond climate change: a critique of climate change discourse, Telos 141:29-55. | |
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| 2006 | "Walking on my page": intimacy and insight in Len Howard's cottage of birds, Social Science Information 45(2):179-208. |
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| 2005 | Rediscovering the king of woodpeckers: exploring the implications, Avian Conservation and Ecology, August 2005. 1(1): 6. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art6/. (co-authored with Jeff Walters.) | |
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| 2004 | Can an insect speak? The case of the honeybee dance language, Social Studies of Science 34(1):7-43. | |
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| Concerned with trifles? A geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book. In Scientists on Gaia: The New Century, Steve Schneider, Jim Miller, Eileen Crist, and Penelope Boston, eds., MIT Press, pp. 161-172. |
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| 2003 | Limits-to-growth and the biodiversity crisis, Wild Earth, Spring, pp. 62-65. | |
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| 2002 | The inner life of earthworms: Darwin's argument and its implications. In The Cognitive Animal, Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon Burghardt, eds., MIT Press, pp. 2-8. | |
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| Quantifying the biodiversity crisis, Wild Earth, Spring, pp. 16-19. | |
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| 1997 | From questions to stimuli, from answers to reactions: the case of Clever Hans, Semiotica 113(1/2):1-42. |
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| 1996 | Naturalists' portrayals of animal life: engaging the Verstehen approach, Social Studies of Science 26:799-838. | |
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| Darwin's anthropomorphism: an argument for animal-human continuity, Advances in Human Ecology 5:33-83. | |
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| ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND REVIEWS: | |||
| 2010 | Cat's Cradle with Donna Haraway. Review essay of Donna Haraway's When Species Meet (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), Social Studies of Science, August. | |
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| 2008 | Social Ecology. Entry for The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, Editors-in-Chief, volume 2, Gale Press, pp. 253-258. | |
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