Knowing the Land: Access, Conservation, & Land-Based Education in the Cherokee Nation

Name: Knowing the Land: Access, Conservation, & Land-Based Education in the Cherokee Nation
Start: 2025-02-27T16:30:00-05:00
Location: 1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37996

Schedule

Thu, 27 Feb, 2025 at 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37996 | Knoxville, TN

A central aspect of Cherokee worldview is ᎠᏰᎵ ᎦᏙᎬ (ayehli gadogv) or "Standing in the Middle," a philosophy under which humans occupy a role in a web of complex interactions between mutually dependent organisms. Standing in the Middle emphasizes the importance of balance and reciprocity in persisting relationships. Join us for a lecture featuring Dr. Clint Carroll, which is the second in a series of talks that will explore how Standing in the Middle informs ecology, conservation, management practices, epistemology, and science communication in the face of unprecedented anthropogenic (human-caused) change.

Light refreshments will be available before the lecture.
About the Lecturer:
Clint Carroll is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in Anthropology, with a minor in American Indian Studies. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works closely with Cherokee people in Oklahoma on issues of land conservation and the perpetuation of land-based knowledge and ways of life. His book, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance (2015, University of Minnesota Press), explores how tribal natural resource managers navigate the material and structural conditions of settler colonialism, as well as how recent efforts in cultural revitalization are informing such practices through traditional forms of decision-making and local environmental knowledge. Dr. Carroll has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Udall Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation. He was also a 2014-2016 Fellow of the Native Investigator Development Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. His work has been published in Ethnohistory, Geoforum, Environmental Research, EcoHealth, and numerous edited collections. He is an active member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Carroll currently co-edits the Cambridge University Press series, Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research with Joy Porter (University of Hull) and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (California State University San Marcos). He also serves on the editorial boards for Cultural Anthropology and Environment and Society. He is a board member for Indigenous Education, Inc. (home of the Cobell Scholarship) and was recently elected to the Denver Botanic Gardens Board of Trustees (2022-2025).

Hosted by the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Psychology; History; English; and the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture. This program has been funded by a Haines-Morris Award.