Rob Anderson | Department of Geography | University of Washington

Ph.D. Alum

Fields of Interest

Critical Human Geography ecological restoration Environment Geographic Information Systems Mapping Nature-society relations Political Ecology Politics Public Scholarship Science and Technology Sustainability the politics of the environment wildlife and biodiversity conservation

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 (65.31 KB)

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

Courses Taught

Spring 2022

Autumn 2021

GEOG 381 A: Maps and Health

Summer 2021

GEOG 205 A: Our Global Environment: Physical and Human Dimensions

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

Geography

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Geographers

Rob Anderson (he/him)