Ph.D. Alum
Biography
PhD, Geography, UW, 2022
M.A., Geography, UW, 2017
Certificate, Stream Restoration, University of Washington, 2012
B.A., Political Science and Music, Vassar College, 2005
Curriculum Vitae
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Rob Anderson is a human-environment geographer and a graduate of the PhD program at UW Geography (2022). His research investigates the social and political dimensions of environmental management in rapidly changing and often highly contested socio-ecological systems. He is particularly interested in the challenges of biodiversity and wildlife conservation and ecological restoration.
Research
Selected Research
- Anderson, R., Biermann, C., & Elwood, S. (2022). Killing for coexistence : the bio- and necro-political ecology of wolf conservation and management in Washington State. [University of Washington Libraries].Adviser: Sarah Elwood
- Martin, Jeff V; Epstein, Katie; Anderson, Robert M; and Charnley, Susan. (2021) “Coexistence praxis: the role of resource managers in wolf-livestock interactions on public lands.” Frontiers in Conservation Science. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2021.707068
- Anderson, Robert M. (2021) “Killing for the common good? The (bio)politics of wolf management in Washington State.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1): 00179. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2020.00179
- Anderson, Robert M. and Lambert, Amy M. (2019). Endangered butterflies and their non-native host plants: examining shifting values of belonging in restoration. Case Studies in the Environment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2019.002147
- Anderson, Robert M.; Buitenwerf, Robert; Driessen, Clemens; Genes, Luisa; Lorimer, Jamie; & Svenning, Jens-Christian. 2019. Introducing rewilding to restoration to expand the conservation effort: A response to Hayward et al. Biodiversity and Conservation. Advance online publication.
- Anderson, R. (Robert M., & Biermann, C. (2017). From non-native “weed” to butterfly “host” : knowledge, place, and belonging in ecological restoration. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Biermann, C., and R. Anderson. 2017. Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death. Geography Compass, 11(10).
Courses Taught
Spring 2022
Additional Courses
Autumn 2019
Introduction to Restoration Ecology (BES 362). University of Washington Bothell, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Environmental Sciences.
Autumn 2018
Critical and Imaginative Restoration Ecologies (SMEA 500/CHID 498). School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and Comparative History of Ideas. Co-developed with Cleo Woelfle-Erskine.
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
American Association of Geographers