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Curriculum Vitae EVAN N. SHENKIN

Department of Sociology Email: [email protected] University of Alaska Phone: 541.579.1207 Anchorage AK, 99508 Office: SSB 364

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2019 Pre-Professoriate Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Anchorage, Alaska 2019 Instructor, Department of Sociology, State University, Oregon 2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, , Oregon

EDUCATION 2018 Ph.D., Sociology, 2014 M.A., Sociology, University of Oregon 2009 M.A., International Studies, University of Oregon 2009 Graduate Certificate, Not-For-Profit Management, University of Oregon 2006 B.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of Oregon 2003 A.A..T.,

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 8/26/2019 - present Environmental Activism & Indigenous Land Rights 4/1/2019 - 6/14/2019 Social Issues and Problems, 1/22/2018 - 5/10/19 Sociology of , Willamette University 9/24 - 12/11/2018 Development & Social Change in America 8/20/18 - 8/29/2018 Introduction to International Issues 8/2018 - 9/2018 Climate Change and Development in the Anthropocene 6/2018 - 7/2018 Introduction to Sociology 3/2018 - 6/2018 Urban Sociology 1/2018 - 3/2018 Systems of War and Peace 9/2017 - 12/2017 Community, Environment and Society 7/2017 - 8/2017 Social Inequality 6/15 - 7/15 2009 Global Environmental Issues

TEACHING ASSISTANT / ADVISING EXPERIENCE 9/2015 - 6/2017 Introduction to Sociology, Social Inequality, Sociology of Work and Occupations, Community, Environment, & Society, Research Methods 9/2012 - 6/2015 International Student Orientation (ISO) Co-Coordinator, Department of International Affairs, University of Oregon 9/2010 - 6/2012 Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon 9/2008 - 6/2009 Undergraduate Advisor, International Studies Program, University of Oregon 9/2007- 6/2008 Value Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Cooperation and Conflict

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, and COMMITTEES 2015 - present Chair, City of Eugene Toxics Right to Know Program 2007 - 2018 Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF) full tuition 2018 Tinker Field Research Grant, Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies ($4000) 2018 Travel Award, Department of Sociology 2017 Travel Award, Department of Sociology 2017 Small Grant Award, Department of Sociology 2016 Small Grant Award, Department of Sociology 2016 Travel Award, Department of Sociology 2009 Thomas Thurber Award, Department of International Studies 2008 Thomas Thurber Award, Department of International Studies 2008-12 Sociology Graduate Forum Steward and GTFF Union Steward 2008 Joint Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon

PUBLICATIONS Book Chapter Shenkin, Evan N. Forthcoming.“Activism or Extractivism: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Bolivia.” Chapter 3 in: Global [Im]-Possibilities: The Paradoxes of Policies, Plans, and ​ Practices for Just Sustainabilities. Edited by Julian Agyeman. Zed Books. University of ​ Chicago Press.

Under Review Shenkin, Evan N. "Bifurcated Bolivia: Indigenous Governance and Sovereignty Struggles in the Eastern Lowlands." Socius. ​

Primary Works in Progress Shenkin, Evan N. “Indigenous Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Andean-Amazonian Capitalism.” In preparation for submission to Environmental Sociology ​

Shenkin, Evan N. “TIPNIS on a Tightrope: Indigenous Territories and Extraction in the Bolivian Amazon.” In preparation for submission to Latin American Perspectives ​

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Papers “Activism or Extractivism: Threats to Indigenous territorial Sovereignty in the Bolivian Lowlands.” Presenter, February 24, 2017. Hawaiian Sociological Association Annual Meeting. University of Hawaii, Hilo.

“Resource Struggles in Native Community Lands (TCOs) of Lowland Bolivia.” Presenter, April 23, 2017 Geographies for Peace Conference, La Paz, Bolivia.

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“The Occupy Wall Street Movement,” Hawaiian Sociological Association Annual Meeting. February 20, 2016. University of Hawaii, Hilo.

“Cap and Trade: Measuring the Social Impacts of Carbon Offsetting in Central America.” “Sociology and Climate Change: Politics, Policy & Social Change” session, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. March 10, 2011

FUNDRAISING EXPERIENCE Authored $5000 Stewart Foundation grant to fund the Eugene based nonprofit: Material Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA)

Co-authored $6200 grant to continue arts educational programming for the Eugene based nonprofit: The Community Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA)

Professional Organizations American Sociological Association (ASA) 2018 - present

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