Curriculum Vitae
Paul Faulstich
909/621-8818 (office)
paul_faulstich@pitzer.edu

Phone: (909) 607-4500

ACADEMIC POSITION  Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Pitzer College
EDUCATION Ph.D.

Anthropology, East-West Center and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990

 

Areas of focus:
• Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
• The Ecology of Expressive Culture
• Ecological Dimensions of Human Ideologies

  Dissertation title:
Landscape Perception and Visual Metaphor in Warlpiri World View
  M.A.

Anthropology, Stanford University, 1982

 

Areas of focus:
• Symbolic Systems/Totemic Geography;
• Interpretive Anthropology

  B.A. Environmental Studies and Art, Pitzer College, 1979
 

Areas of focus:
• Natural Philosophy
• Photographic Studies

  Additional Undergraduate Studies: Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley, 1977
     
EMPLOYMENT
  1999-present ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, Pitzer College, Claremont, California
  1993-1998 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
   

Pitzer College is a small, highly selective liberal arts college with a curricular emphasis in the social and behavioral sciences. Pitzer is part of a cluster of educational institutions known collectively as the Claremont Colleges. As Convenor of the Environmental Studies Field Group, I am responsible for administering this academic program, and I teach undergraduate and graduate courses that explore human relationships with the non-human environment. My courses are variously cross-listed in Anthropology, Art, International & Intercultural Studies, Media Studies, Science, Technology & Society, and Gender and Feminist Studies.

I am also a faculty member in Cultural Studies at the Claremont Graduate University. Courses include:

  • Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development
  • Environmental Awareness and Responsible Action
  • Theory and Practice in Environmental Education
  • Field Methods in Cultural Studies
  • Ecology, Community, and Design
  • Worldview and Natural History
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Ecology and Culture Change
  • The Desert as a Place · Exhibiting Nature
  • Visual Ecology
  • Ethnoecology
  January 1992
to May 1992
CURATOR OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
  May 1992
to July 1993

ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART
I was responsible for the preservation, acquisition, and exhibition of the Museum's ethnic holdings, which include distinguished collections of Native American, Cameroonian, and Ethiopian arts. I served as a resource for information on indigenous arts, and I supervised junior personnel, interns, and volunteers. I lent professional support to the Museum's Native American Arts Council, and worked closely with Indian community leaders in developing and presenting a comprehensive view of indigenous arts. I conducted research on the collections, secured funding, delivered lectures, oversaw the treatment of objects, and drafted curatorial policies.

  July 1992
to March 1993

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon
Linfield College is a selective 4-year college of arts and sciences. I taught in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, focusing on social problems and cultural change.

  September 1991
to December 1991

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY, Pitzer College, Claremont, California
I was a member of the Art, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies Field Groups, and a faculty participant in the curricular program on International-Intercultural Studies.

  January 1987
to December 1990
DEGREE ASSOCIATE, Program for Cultural Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Education and research at the Program for Cultural Studies focuses on varied aspects of culture; multidisciplinary programs address issues relating to social values, ethnic identity, creative expressions of culture, and culture change. As a participant in several of the Institute's projects, I conducted research on current social and cultural issues, and I collaborated with people of diverse ethnicity on international programs. My involvement in the Creative Expressions of Culture Program included curatorial work on an exhibition series, which explores cross-cultural themes in contemporary arts and crafts; the series seeks to increase intercultural understanding through changing exhibitions, several of which have toured internationally. I led a seminar series, gave lectures based on my ongoing research, and served on academic and administrative committees.
  February 1984
to May 1986
ASSISTANT CURATOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California
I was involved in all aspects of the renovations of two exhibits, People of the Southwest, and People of California These permanent exhibit renovations present, from an anthropological viewpoint, the historic and prehistoric cultures of western North America.My involvement in each of these projects included exhibit design, artifact selection, label writing, collections management, coordinating conservation projects, and working with museum educators. I assisted in the planning and implementation of a museum-wide computerized collections inventory. My research responsibilities focused on gathering information for use in the exhibits.Other duties included editorial work for Masterkey, the Southwest Museum's quarterly publication, securing funding for projects, object registration, and identifying collection needs.
  November 1982
to December 1983
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, Alhambra School District,
  January 1981
to June 1981
INSTRUCTOR, Claremont Collegiate School, Claremont
     
ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
   
  • Faculty Executive Committee, Pitzer College, 1999-2001 (Chairperson, 2000-01)
  • Chairperson, Master Planning Committee, Pitzer College, 1999-2002
  • Educational Policy Committee, Pitzer College Board of Trustees, 2000-2001
  • Thomas J. Watson Nominating Committee, Pitzer College, 2000-01
  • Arboretum Advisory Committee, Pitzer College, 2000-
  • Cultural Studies Field Committee, Claremont Graduate University, 1998-
  • Director, Leadership in Environmental Education Partnership, 1998-
  • Campus Aesthetics Committee, 1998-99
  • Research and Awards Committee, Pitzer College, 1996-98 (Chairperson, 1997-98)
  • Judicial Council, Pitzer College, 1993-95 (Chairperson, 1993-94) · Faculty Supervisor, Ecology Center at Pitzer College, 1993-
  • Chairperson, Native American Arts Council, Portland Art Museum, 1992-93
     
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
    PAPERS, MONOGRAPHS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND BOOKS
    Exploring Relationships Through Rock-Art: Ecology, Landscape and Colonial Encounters.
Co-editor with Paul Taçon and Sven Ouzman. In prep.
    Burning the Land and Dreaming the Country: The Ethnoecology of Rock-Art.
In Paul Faulstich, Paul Taçon, and Sven Ouzman (eds.),
Exploring Relationships Through Rock-Art: Ecology, Landscape and Colonial Encounters. In prep.
    Introduction: Rock-Art and Relationships. Co-authored with Paul Taçon and Sven Ouzman.
In Paul Faulstich Paul Taçon and Sven Ouzman (eds.),
Exploring Relationships Through Rock-Art: Ecology, Landscape and Colonial Encounters. In prep.
    An Inquiry into the Nature of Sacred Places: The Petroglyph Sites of the Pipkin Lava Flow, San Bernardino County, California.
In Ken Hedges (ed.), Rock Art Papers: Volume 15, pp. 43-53. San Diego Museum of Man. 2000.
    Globalizing Wilderness: A Perspective on Traditional Ecological Knowledge in an Interconnected World.
In Alan Watson and Greg Aplet, (eds.), Personal, Societal, and Ecological Values of Wilderness, pp. 228-233.
Ogden, UT: USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2000.
    Land Development and Biotechnology at the Claremont Colleges. The Other Side. 2/1999: 10-13.
    Geophilia: Landscape and Humanity. Wild Earth Journal. 8 (1): 81-9. 1998.
    Mapping the Mythological Landscape: An Aboriginal Way of Being-in-the-World.
Ethics, Place and Environment. 1(2):197-221. 1998.
    Notes on a Natural History of Social Living: An Evolutionary Design Perspective on Reconnecting Culture and Nature.
In Richard Register and Brady Peeks (eds.), Village Wisdom, Future Cities, pp. 50-3. Oakland: EcoCity Builders. 1997.
    Rock Art as Visual Ecology. Editor. Tucson: American Rock Art Research Association. 1997.
    Introduction: Rock Art as Visual Ecology.
In Paul Faulstich (ed.), Rock Art as Visual Ecology, pp. 1-5. Tucson: American Rock Art Research Association. 1997.
    A Man in the Landscape: Reflections on the Person as a Place.
In Max Oelschlaeger (ed.), The Company of Others: Essays in Celebration of Paul Shepard, pp. 65-74. Durango: Kivaki Press. 1995.
    The Cultured Wild and the Limits of Wilderness.
In David Clarke Burks (ed.), Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology, pp. 161-74. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 1994.
    Predicting the Past, Recounting the Future: Human Ecology and a Prehistory of Consciousness.
The Trumpeter 11 (2): 59-64. 1994.
    Dreaming Place: Land and Myth at Nyirripi.
Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 22 (2): 3-12. 1994.
    Time and Space: Dating and Spatial Considerations in Rock Art Research.
Co-editor with Paul Taçon, Jack Steinbring and Alan Watchman. Melbourne: Archaeological Publications. 1993.
    "You Read 'Im This Country": Landscape, Self and Art in an Aboriginal Community.
In Roger Rose and Philip Dark (eds.), Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific, pp. 149-61. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; Bathurst: Crawford House Press Pty Ltd. 1993.
    Introduction: Expressing Relationships to the Land by Marking Special Places (with P. Taçon).
In J. Steinbring, A. Watchman, P. Faulstich and P. Taçon (eds.), Time and Space: Dating and Spatial Considerations in Rock Art Research, pp. 81-3. Melbourne: Archaeological Pubs. 1993.
    The Presence of the Absence of Nature.
Wild Earth Journal 3 (2): 72-5. 1993.
    Massaging the Earth: Pleistocene Finger Flutings and the Archaeology of Experience.
The Artefact, 15: 3-10, 1992.
    Of Earth and Dreaming: Abstraction and Naturalism in Warlpiri Art.
In M. J. Morwood and D. R. Hobbs (eds.), Rock Art and Ethnography, pp. 19-23. Melbourne: Archaeological Publications. 1992.
    From Ashes to Gravestones: The Charcoal Drawings of Gua Badak, Malaysia.
In Colin Pearson and B. K. Swartz, Jr. (eds.), Rock Art and Posterity: Conserving, Managing, and Recording Rock Art, pp. 24-7. Melbourne: Archaeological Publications. 1991.
    A Rock Art Replica at the Southwest Museum: A Step Toward Preservation?
In Colin Pearson and B. K. Swartz, Jr. (eds.), Rock Art and Posterity: Conserving, Managing, and Recording Rock Art, pp. 145-6. Melbourne: Archaeological Publications. 1991.
    X-Ray Rock Art of Australia and Southeast Asia.
Bollettino Del Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici 25-26: 123-32, 1990.
    Hawaii's Rainforest Crunch: Land, People, and Geothermal Development.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, 14(4): 36-8, 1990.
    Art Rupestre in Malesia: Esempi Negrito E Senoi.
In Sante Bagnoli (ed.), L'Umana Avventure, pp. 54-64. Jaka Books: Milan, Italy. 1990. (Published in four languages.)
    Hawaiians Fight for the Rainforest.
Earth First! Journal, 10(5): 1/7, 1990.
    Expressions of the Orang Asli.
Wings of Gold, pp. 18-20, 1990.
    Shaman—Ritual—Place: Sacred Sites and Spiritual Transformation.
Earth First! Journal, 9(8): 26-28, 1989.
    Migration, Diffusion, Invention: The Australian Example.
Haliksa'i, 7: 35-49, 1988.
    Malaysias Lille Folk Fylder
25.000 Ar. Illustreret Videnskab, 11: 32-35, 1986.
    Pictures of the Dreaming: Aboriginal Rock Art in Australia.
Archaeology, 39(4): 18-25, 1986.
    Aboriginal Dreaming.
Earth First! Journal, 7(2): 21, 1986.
    Spirits on the Rock: Symbol and Structure in North Queensland Rock Paintings.
In F. Bock (ed.), American Indian Rock Art, vol. 10, pp. 1-28, 1986.
    The Taman Negara Batek: A People in Transition (with Suzanne Hashim).
Cultural Survival Quarterly, 9(3): 33-35, 1985.
    People of the Southwest (with Peter H. Welsh, Steven A. LeBlanc, and Patrick T. Houlihan).
Masterkey 58: 3-66, 1984.
    Australian Aboriginal Rock Art and the Sense of Place.
In F. Bock (ed.), American Indian Rock Art, vol. 9, pp. 96-113, 1983.
     
    REVIEWS, COMMENTARIES AND REPORTS
    "Sacred Places." Entry in "Encyclopedia of World Environmental History." Shepard Krech III, John R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant (eds.). London & New York: Routledge. In prep.
    "Aboriginal Art, Nature, and Spirituality," "Worldview and Natural History," Sacred Space/Place," "Australian Rock-Art," "Ethnoecology," and "Geophilia." Entries in "Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature." Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan (eds.). London & New York: Continuum International. In prep.
    Art As Biocultural Artifact. Comment on: Derek Hodgson, "Art, Perception and Information Processing: An Evolutionary Perspective." Rock Art Research, 17: 21-22, 2000.
    The True Truth About KGI and the Field Station. The Other Side. 4/00:10-11.
    Leadership in Environmental Education Partnership: A Fieldbook. With Jodi Connelly. 2000.
    "Ecology," "Ecosystem," "Desertification," "Deforestation" and "Species Extinction." Entries in "The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society." Rudi Volti (ed.). New York: Facts on File. 1999.
    Visual Illusion and the Fear of Change. The Other Side. 12/99:26-28.
    Field Station Under Threat. The Other Side. 3/99:24-25.
    Rock Art and Ecological Knowledge. Rock Art Research. 15(2):141-2. 1998.
    Review of: Marc S. Miller (ed.), State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. American Ethnologist 21(4): 906-7, 1994.
    Review of: Robert Layton, Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis. American Antiquity 59(4): 789-90, 1994.
    Rejoinder. Wild Earth 3(4): 11-2, 1993/94.
    Save Enola Hill! Wild Earth 3(1): 20, 1993.
    Hawaii's Hottest Issue: Update on Geothermal Development. Earth First! Journal, 10(5):20-1, 1990.
    Malaysian Deforestation Proceeds Apace. Earth First! Journal, 10(3): 22-3, 1990.
    Comment on: Daniel Tangri, "Science, Hypothesis Testing and Prehistoric Pictures". Rock Art Research, 6: 89-90, 1989.
    Tracking The Dreaming. Dirt Times, Summer, pp. 1-2, 1989
    'Sacred' and 'Secular' in Australian Rock Art. Bollettino Del Centro di Studi Preistorici, 24: 8-9, 1988.
    Comment on: J.D. Lewis-Williams and T. A. Dowson, "The Signs of all Times: Entopic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art". Current Anthropology, 29: 224-5, 1988.
    Two Poems on One Place. Horizons: Journal of Asia-Pacific Issues, 2: 94-5, 1987.
    Comment on: Robert G. Bednarik, "Parietal Finger Markings in Europe and Australia". Rock Art Research, 3(2): 161-162, 1986.
    Comment on: P. Bahn, "No Sex Please, We're Aurignacians". Rock Art Research, 3(2):107-8, 1986.
    Dangerous 'Preservation' in Malaysia. Bollettino Del Centro di Studi Preistorici, 23: 7-8, 1986.
    Rock art in Malaysia. Bollettino Centro Camino di Studi Preistorici, 22: 10-11, 1985.
    Comment on: Alaxander Marshack, "Theoretical Concepts that Lead to New Analytic Methods, Modes of Inquiry and Classes of Data". Rock Art Research, 2(1): 107, 1985.
    Review of: Nancy Olsen, Hovenweep Rock Art: An Anasazi Visual Communication System. Rock Art Research, 2(2): 167-168, 1985.
    Comment on: Bruce Wright, "Variant Hand Motifs in the Stenciled Art of the Australian Aborigines". Rock Art Research, 2(1): 11-12, 1984.
    Review of: David Grant Noble (ed.), New Light on Chaco Canyon. Masterkey, 58: 28-29, 1984.
    Review of: George Chaloupka, Burrunguy Nourlangie Rock. Rock Art Research, 1(2): 148, 1984
    Preliminary Report on the Rock Art of Ipoh, Malaysia. Rock Art Research, 1(2): 141-142, 1984.
    Comment on: Wang Ningsheng, "An Introduction to Rock Paintings in Yunnan Province (People's Republic of China)". Rock Art Research, 1(2): 87-88, 1984.
    A Guide to Claremont Architecture. The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 1977.
     
    MANUSCRIPTS IN RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS
    Aspects of Native American Material Culture: California.
Aspects of Native American Material Culture: The Southwest.

Manuscripts in the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1985/86.
    Toward a Theory of Cultural Expression: Art in an Australian Aboriginal Community.
Manuscript in the Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985.
    Conservation and Management Recommendations for the Gua Tambun Archaeological Site.
Manuscript in the Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1985.
     
    PRIVATE PRINTINGS
    Eight Recent Moments: A Portfolio of Poems.
Alhambra, CA: N'Dhala Press, 1986.
    Coyote, Cat and Quartz.
Alhambra, CA: N'Dhala Press, 1983.
     
AWARDS AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
    FULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR AWARD, 2002-03 For research and lecturing in Australia.
    VISITING FELLOW, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, FORTHCOMING IN 2003
    SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE, PITZER COLLEGE, 2001-2002
Enabled me to focus on my scholarly research and offer a seminar relating to my current work.
    MELLON INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY GRANT, 2001-2002
Funded my travel to Botswana to develop a collaborative project advancing intercultural learning.
    SINGING FOR CHANGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 1999
Awarded for the Leadership in Environmental Education Partnership (LEEP), which trains college students to teach outdoor environmental education to school children from diverse backgrounds.
    EDISON INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 1996
This grant provided seed money for the LEEP program described above.
    CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION, Pueblo of Zuñi, New Mexico, 1993
Conferred by the Governor of Zuñi for initiating and organizing repatriation of a sacred War God.
    AMERICAN CULTURAL SPECIALIST, United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1992
Under its American Cultural Specialist Program, USIA arranges for experts to consult with international colleagues. I was sponsored to travel to Australia, present lectures, participate in academic symposiums, extend earlier field research, and collaborate with scholars.
    DEGREE ASSOCIATE, Program for Cultural Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1986-90
The East-West Center is a research institution established by the U.S.Congress to promote better relations and understanding among the nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States through cooperative study, training, and research. Degree Associates participate in the Center's programs while pursuing graduate degrees at the University of Hawaii.
    HAWAII FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988
I was funded to conduct research on aspects of cultural resource management and to attend a two-week course at the Getty Conservation Institute on the conservation of rock art.
    FIELD STUDY AWARD, Program for Cultural Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988
Awarded in support of dissertation field research among Warlpiri Aborigines of central Australia. Provided for travel, equipment, and living expenses.
    AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AURA) GRANT, 1988
Enabled me to prepare four papers and to present them at the AURA Congress in Darwin, Australia.
    CENTERWIDE CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP, The East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987
Awarded on a competitive basis, this scholarship enables selected long-term participants at the East-West Center to present scholarly work at professional meetings outside of the U.S.
    READER, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1985
I utilized archives to research Native American material culture from the 1800-1900s. The Huntington Library is a research institution with major resources in rare books, manuscripts, and reference works for the scholarly study of British and American history and literature.
    KAMPULAN KEBUDAYAAN MALAYSIA FELLOWSHIP, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1984
Two projects were completed: documentation and analysis of rock art sites in Malaysia, and an investigation of the issues Batek Negritos face from increased tourist visitation to Malaysia's principal national park. The project resulted in recommendations to the National Museum.
    CASTLETON ESSAY AWARD, American Rock Art Research Association, 1983
    THOMAS J. WATSON FELLOWSHIP, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979-80
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation established the Watson Fellowship to enable recipients to conduct a year of independent study and field research abroad. I studied Aboriginal sacred places.
    PITZER COLLEGE RESEARCH AND AWARDS GRANT, 1976-1979, 1993-2002
Projects included multimedia essays on the natural history and social ecology of Baja (Mexico), research on indigenous arts of arid environments, and a study of southern California architecture. Recent projects have included "Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Management."
   
  • Hewlett Cross-Discipline Teaching Initiative Award, 2001-2
  • Silver Medal, College Partnerships, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, 2000
  • Interactive Education Initiative Grant, America Online Foundation, 2000
  • Certificate Of Excellence In Service Claremont Unified School District, 2000
  • Center For California Cultural And Social Issues Community Research Award, 1999
  • Environmental Partnering Award, National Association of Environmental Professionals, 1998
  • Irvine Enterprise Fellow, 1997-98
  • Fletcher Jones Research Grant, 1996
  • Durfee Foundation Award, 1996, 1997
  • William And Flora Hewlett Foundation Award, 1996
  • National Endowment For The Arts Grant, 1993
  • Harry S. Steele Foundation Scholarship, 1979, 1978
  • California State Scholarship, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976
     
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
   
  • Steering Committee Member, West Coast Education For Sustainability Network, 2001-
  • Oceania/Pacific Rim Task Force Member, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, 2000-
  • Partner Investigator, Landscape of Blue Mountains Rock-Art Research Project, 2001-
  • Peer Reviewer, Environmental Ethics, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Terra Nova, Rock Art Research, and various granting agencies, 1986-present
  • Academic Committee, 1992 International Congress of the Australian Rock Art Research Association
  • Program Committee, 1994 American Rock Art Research Association International Symposium
  • Designed management policies for publicly and privately administered archaeological sites
  • Committee Member, International Committee on Monuments and Sites, UNESCO
  • Executive Committee Member, Rock Art Association of Hawaii, 1987 - 1990
  • Coordinated a major symposium on energy planning in Hawaii, 1990
  • Committee Member, International Committee on Rock Art, UNESCO
  • Committee Member, International Council on Museums, UNESCO
  • Founding Member, Australian Rock Art Research Association
  • Steering Committee, Aloha Âina Action Congress, 1990
  • Editorial Board, Rock Art Research, 1983 - present
  • Correspondent, Wild Earth Journal, 1991-5
  • American Rock Art Research Association
  • American Anthropological Association
  • American Association of Museums
  • Council on Museum Anthropology
 
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
   
  • Seasons and Cycles in Faculty Careers: The Dean and the Faculty from Hire to Retirement, American Conference of Academic Deans & Assoc. of American Colleges & Universities, 2001
  • Certified Facilitator for Project Learning Tree, Project WET, and Project WILD
  • Integrating Environmental Education into Pre-Service Teacher Prep. EPA, Sacramento, CA 2000
  • Managing Lecture-Free Learning, Mellon Workshop, Claremont University Center, CA, 1997
  • Environmental Justice Study Group, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, 1996.
  • Workshop on Service Learning and Civic Responsibility, Claremont, CA, 1995.
  • Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR, 1992, 1995.
  • Wilderness is the Last Dream Conference, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, 1990.
  • Exhibition Design and Gallery Management, University of Hawaii, Dept. of Art, 1988.
  • Conservation of Rock Art, The Getty Conservation Institute, Marina del Rey, California, 1988.
  • Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Darwin, Australia, 1988.
  • Pacific-Asia Empowerment Conference, World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Hawaii, 1987.
  • Critical Issues in Asia and the Pacific, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987.
  • Smithsonian Conference on Hunters and Gatherers, Los Angeles, CA, 1985.
  • Passed California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST).
     
FIELD RESEARCH
 
Australia
Aboriginal sacred sites project (1980); Pleistocene cave archaeology (1986); Dissertation research (1988-89); Community land issues (1992); Aboriginal resource management (1997); Warlpiri ethnoecology (2000); The Natural History of Place-Making (2003)
 
Malaysia
Batek Negrito social ecology (1984); Orang Asli rock art analysis (1984); Revisits to field sites ('87, '90, '93, '94, '97)
 
California
Archaeological excavation at Jasper Ridge (1982); Cultural resource management for the Nature Conservancy's Central California Reserve (1987); Analysis and documentation of rock art sites throughout the state (ongoing)
 
American
Southwest
Periodic research at various Native American communities (1976-present); Documentation and research on rock art sites throughout the region (ongoing)
 
Baja
California
Natural history and human ecology of the Baja Peninsula (1976, followed by numerous revisits)
 
Pacific

Archaeological site preservation and documentation, Hawaii (1987-88); Collaborative and community-based management of coral reefs, Rarotonga (2000)

     
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
   

ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Thornton Bradshaw Seminar, Claremont Graduate University, 2000

CONSULTANT, HUMANITIES SELF-STUDY, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1996

PARTICIPANT, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STUDY GROUP, Claremont Graduate School, 1996

RESEARCH CONSULTANT/PHOTOGRAPHER, CD ROM version of the IMAX film "The Discoverers," 1994

OREGON STATE REPRESENTATIVE, Conservation Committee, American Rock Art Research, 1992-3

OFFICIAL DELEGATE OF THE U.S., Second AURA Archaeological Congress, Cairns, Australia, 1992

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZER, O'ahu Rainforest Action Group, 1988-91
     • Coordinated with local and national groups to educate the public on environmental issues
     • Organized a major symposium on energy planning and presented testimony at legislative hearings

CONSULTANT, Hawaii Community Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990
     • Co-authored an advisory report commissioned to secure program funding

STEERING COMMITTEE, Aloha Âina Action Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990

STUDENT SELECTION COMMITTEE, Program for Cultural Studies, 1990

GRADUATE STUDY COMMITTEE, Program for Cultural Studies, East-West Center, 1989-90

STEERING COMMITTEE, Graduate Student Organization, Stanford University, 1982

ARCHAEOLOGIST, National Parks and Wildlife Commission, Alice Springs, Australia, 1981

EARTHWATCH VOLUNTEER, Black Canyon Archaeological Project, California, 1980

RESIDENT ADVISOR STUDENT ACADEMIC ADVISOR, PEER COUNSELOR; Pitzer College, 1978-79

     
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
    Environmental Education in Schools and Communities
Beyond Rhetoric: Educational Alternatives and Community Participation. Ontario, CA 2002.
    Toward an Ecology of Expressive Culture: The Ethnoecology of Rock Art
Australian Rock Art Research Association International Congress, Alice Springs, 2000.
    Globalizing Wilderness: Environmental and Indigenous Partnerships in an Interconnected World
Sixth World Wilderness Congress. Bangalore, India, 1999
    Conservation and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community. University of Nevada, 1998.
    The Petroglyphs of the Pipkin Lava Flow: Correlations Between Art and Place.
Rock Art '97. University of California, San Diego.
    Indigenous Globalization: A New/Old Way of Doing Environmentalism in an Interconnected World.
1997 Fulbright Symposium: Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World. Darwin, Australia.
    Designer Genes: Notes on a Natural History of Social Living.
Third International EcoCity Conference. Senegal, 1996.
    Geographies of Hope: Prospect, Preservation, and Geophilia.
The Environmental Spirit: Past, Present & Prospects. University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
    Sharing and Communicating Wilderness Values.
Urban National Forest Academy Conference. Cal Poly, Pomona, 1995.
    EcoEthos: Environmental Ethics and Prehistory.
Research Seminar in Comparative Theory, Method, and Teaching in Archaeology. University of New England, 1992. Armidale, Australia.
    Geothermal Energy Development: The Impact on Hawaii's Rainforests.
WILD Conference, 1990. Honolulu, Hawaii.
    The Reinhabitation of Traditional Lands by Indigenous Peoples.
Hawaii, Asia and the Pacific: Culture, Change and Development Symposium, 1990. Honolulu
    "You Read 'Im This Country:" Landscape, Self, and Acrylic Painting in a Central Australian Aboriginal Community.
Pacific Arts Association Symposium, 1989. Honolulu, Hawaii.
    Representing Warlpiri: Art and Object in an Aboriginal World View.
Australian Rock Art Research Assoc. Congress, 1988. Darwin, Australia.
    Parietal Finger Markings: Image and Exploration in Pleistocene South Australia.
Australian Rock Art Research Assoc. Congress, 1988. Darwin, Australia.
    From Ashes to Gravestones: The Rock Drawings of Gua Badak, Malaysia.
Australian Rock Art Research Assoc. Congress, 1988. Darwin, Australia.
    A Rock Art Replica at the Southwest Museum: A Step Toward Preservation?
Australian Rock Art Research Assoc. Congress, 1988. Darwin, Australia.
    X-Ray Rock Art of Australia and Southeast Asia.
Prehistoric Art Symposium, Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, 1987. Valcamonica, Italy.
    Orang Asli Art.
American Rock Art Research Association Symposium, 1985. Santa Barbara, California.
    Art and Anthropological Theory.
American Rock Art Research Association Symposium, 1984. Boulder City, Nevada.
    Symbolic Structuring in Cape York Rock Art, Australia.
State of the Art in Rock Art Research, Bowers Museum, 1984. San Bernardino, California.
    Australian Aboriginal Art and the Cultural Landscape.
American Rock Art Research Association Symposium, 1983. Price, Utah.
    Superimpositioning and Meaning in the Rock Paintings of the Cape York Peninsula, Australia.
American Rock Art Research Association Symposium, 1983. Price, Utah.
    Aboriginal Rock Art and the Geography of the Dreaming.
American Rock Art Research Association Symposium, 1982. Porterville, California.
    Religion in Tribal Australia.
Thomas J. Watson Fellow's Conference, 1981. Bowdoin College, Maine.
     
SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS CHAIRED
   
  • Apologies: Mourning the Past and Ameliorating the Present. Center for the Humanities, 2002. Claremont Graduate University.
  • Visual Representation and Cultural History: The Edward S. Curtis Photographs of North American Indians. Thornton Bradshaw Seminar in the Humanities, 2000. Claremont Grad. Univ.
  • Rock Art and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Australian Rock Art Research Association International Congress, 2000. Alice Springs, Australia.
  • Landscape, Place and Rock Art. International Rock Art Congress, 1999. Ripon, Wisconsin.
  • The Ecology of Rock Art. International Rock Art Congress, 1994. Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Spatial Considerations in Rock Art. Australian Rock Art Research Association International Congress, 1992. Cairns, Australia.
  • Change and Resistance. Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies Symposium, 1990. Hawaii.
  • The Dispersal of Prehistoric Art: Diffusion or Independent Invention? Valcamonica Symposium, 1988. Louvre, Italy.
 
INVITED LECTURES
   
  • Landscape and Humanity. Pomona College, CA 1998.
  • The Geophilia Hypothesis. Claremont Jung Society, CA, 1998.
  • Challenges in "Exhibiting Nature." Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, 1996.
  • The Art of Place. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1993.
  • Ecology and Prehistory. Delivered at various institutions in Australia, under aegis of the U.S. Information Agency, 1992.
  • Iconicity and the Meaning of Landscape. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1992.
  • The Representation of Space and Time. Linfield College, 1992.
  • Acrylic Paintings, Ochre Traditions: Art in an Australian Aboriginal Desert Community. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1989.
  • Picture This: Prehistoric Art and Modern Culture in Aboriginal Australia. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1989.
  • Aboriginal Landscapes. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA, 1989.
  • Art and Life in Aboriginal Australia. Petaling Jaya Community College, Malaysia, 1988.
  • Aboriginal Rock Art from Australia: Contemporary Window onto the Past. UCLA Extension Course, Prehistoric Rock Art in World Perspective, 1987. UCLA.
  • People of California: The Making of an Exhibit. Cultures of the American Southwest: The Land and the People. Southwest Museum, 1986. Los Angeles, California.
  • California Landscapes: The Raw and the Cooked. Atherton Society Lecture, 1985. Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
  • An Interpretation of Gua Badak and Gua Tambun. Malaysian Cultural History Society, 1984. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Symbolic Geography and Australian Aboriginal Iconography. School of American Research, 1984. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Art and Place. The Santa Fe Project of Pitzer College, 1983. Bernalillo, New Mexico.
  • The Archaeology of Aesthetics: Development and Dispersal in Prehistoric Art. Stanford University, 1982. Stanford, California.
     
VISUAL ARTS TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
 
Photography
  • Retain an extensive slide archive comprising a valuable educational resource
  • Specializing in visual anthropology, ecology, and landscape documentation
  • Studied photography under Leland Rice, Pomona College, William Garnett, University of California at Berkeley, and Laura Volkerding, Stanford University
 
General Experience
  • Directed workshops on landscape art, environmental perception, and photography
  • Curated and co-curated numerous gallery shows and museum exhibits
  • Participated in photography workshops with Joe Deal and Morley Baer
  • Published photographs in magazines and journals
 
Group Exhibitions
  • The World Through the Eyes of the Center, East-West Center, Honolulu, 1987
  • Painted Rocks and Paper, Hinshaw Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, 1979
  • Pomona College Student Arts, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, 1978
  • Scripps College Student Arts Show, Lange Art Gallery, Scripts College, 1977
 
One-Man Shows
  • The Sacred Earth, Salathé Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, 1979
  • Photographs, East Studio Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, 1978
  • Desert Landscapes, Salathé Gallery, Pitzer College, 1977
  • Baja Images, Founder's Room, Pitzer College, 1976
 
Art Projects
  • Friends of CFC, (installation, East-West Center, Honolulu), 1989
  • Icarus, (film), 1979
  • Baja; A Photographic Journey, (audio-visual presentation), 1979, '78, '77, '76
  • Tsegi, (film), 1976
 
 
 
Skills
Photography, program design, implementation and evaluation, wilderness skills.
 
Interviews
I have been interviewed for various periodical articles, film documentaries, and radio shows. These have appeared in: Environmental Directions (nationally aired radio program), 2000; the Los Angeles Times, 2000; the Financial Times, 1999; Active Claremont (CPAT, local cable TV), 1998; and Gem in the Heart of the City (award winning documentary), 1986.
 
Specialized Training
Cultural resource management, museum collection management, exhibition design, grassroots organizing.
 
Travel
Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Cook Islands, Nepal, Belize, Tahiti, Mexico, England, Italy, Singapore, Senegal, Thailand, Botswana, Bali, Hong Kong, India, Canada, Germany, and Hawaii. Extensive travel throughout the Southwestern U.S. and Baja California.
 
Interests
Mountaineering, hiking, natural and cultural history, writing and painting.