Contact Information
Biography
Contact: nonordinary@gmail.com
Drawing on the environmental history of capitalism, the production of space, and settler-colonial studies, my dissertation The Productivore's Dilemma: Extinction or Extermination outlines the 'bringing-to-endangerment' of the coast redwood tree, Sequoia sempervirens, of northwestern California. It highlights the intersections of settler-colonial property regimes and the early use of scientific forestry (or silviculture) under capitalism as systemic extermination.
In 2019, I moved to Budapest, Hungary with my family and graduated with my PhD in June of 2021. My current post is at McDaniel College Budapest, where I serve as both an instructor and the Director of Institutional and Academic Development.
When not teaching and writing, I am playing trombone. In addition to musical pursuits, I am currently working multiple screenplays, as both an editor and writer, and developing my own blog entitled Destinationless Path.
Research
Selected Research
- Cox, C. R., & Bergmann, L. R. (2021). The productivore’s dilemma : extinction or extermination? [University of Washington Libraries].
- Cox, Christopher R. “Resuscitating the Dialectic: Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital in the Supposed ‘Age of Man.’” Blog. Historical Materialism (blog), January 31, 2020. http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/resuscitating-dialectic-moores-capitalism-web-life-ecology-and-accumulation-capital.
- Cox, Christopher R. “In the Interior of Capital’s Exterminism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 31, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 129–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2020.1732521.
Courses Taught
GEOG 123 Introduction to Globalization (TA) - Autumn, 2014