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CURRICULUM VITAE http://www.brontaylor.com Bron Taylor telephone: 107 Anderson Hall (352) 273-2942 PO Box 117410 fax (352) 273–7395 Gainesville FL 32611-7410 e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., Religion (Social Ethics), School of Religion, University of Southern California (12/22/88). Major Area: Social Ethics; Minor Areas: Religion and Culture; Social Criticism & Social Change. Dissertation: Affirmative Action and Moral Meaning: A Descriptive and Normative Ethical Analysis of Attitudes of Affected Groups. Advisors: John P. Crossley. Jr., Donald E. Miller, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Mark Kann. M.A., Theology (Theological Ethics), Fuller Theological Seminary, 1980. B.A., Religious Studies, B.A., Psychology, California State University, Chico, 1977. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Visiting “FIRST” Professor, the University of Colorado (Boulder), Summer 2013. Professor of Religion and Nature, The University of Florida. August 2009. Affiliated Scholar, Center for Environment and Development, Oslo University, involved with the research project, “Sustainability for the 21st Century: Overcoming Limitations to Creative Adaptation in Addressing the Climate Challenge.” Appointed March 2008. Samuel S. Hill Professor of Christian Ethics & Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Religion and Nature, Department of Religion, The University of Florida. Appointed August 2002. Affiliate, School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Promotion to Full Professor June 1998. Director, Environmental Studies Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Founder and administrator of the bachelors’ degree granting Environmental Studies Program. Appointed 1993. Associate Professor of Religion and Social Ethics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Promotion June 1993; Tenure, June 1994. Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Ethics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Appointed September 1989. Appointed to the International Studies Faculty and Latin American Studies Faculty, Fall 1990. Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach. Appointed 1988, served through May 1989 Adjunct Professor, College of Professional Studies, University of San Francisco. Appointed 1986, served through May 1989. AWARDS & HONORS 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, ceremony April 2017 in New York City. 2017-2019 University of Florida Term Professorship (for “distinguished records of research and scholarship”), $15,000. 2016-2017 Carson Alumni Residency Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany 2016-2017 University of Florida Humanities Enhancement Research Grant, $12,000 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar faculty member, “Extending the Land Ethic: Current Humanities Voices and Sustainability.” 2015 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Nominee, Graduate Mentor Award (did not win University-wide competition). 2013-2014 University of Florida Humanities Enhancement Research Grant, $12,000 2011-2012 Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany 2010-2012 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, $18,000 award. 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar faculty member, “Reclaiming an Old Idea: The Humanities and Sustainability.” 2006 The American Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Source award, for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature 2005 Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature 2002 Rosebush Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, highest faculty award for research, teaching, and service 2001 First Prize, Curriculum Innovation Award, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, for Biodiversity and Bioregionalism course, $3,500 award 1997-2001 Oshkosh Foundation Endowed Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 1994-1995 Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison 1992 University of Wisconsin System, Regents Teaching Merit Award 1982-1983 U.S.C. Firestone Fellowship & U.S.C. President’s Circle Merit Award 1977 Graduated “with distinction” from California State University, Chico PUBLICATIONS–BOOKS Dunkelgrüne Religion, translated by Kocku von Stuckrad (Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink, 2020). Translations into Mandarin and Russian are in the works. Avatar and Nature Spirituality, editor and author of three chapters (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Environmental Humanities Series, 2013). Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy, chapter author and co-editor with Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013). Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010). Ecological Resistance Movements: the Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, International Environmental Policy and Theory Series, 1995). Commissioned and edited volume of original research, writing three chapters and co-authoring another. Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics (University of Pittsburgh Press, Institutional and Public Policy Series, 1991). 2 PUBLICATIONS–ENCYCLOPEDIA & JOURNAL Founding editor, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 4 issues/year since 2007, affiliated with the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (Sheffield, United Kingdom: Equinox). See www.religionandnature.com Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, editor-in-chief, 2 volumes, 1000 entries, 520 contributors, over 1.5 million words; author of 80,000 words of entries (London & New York: Continuum International, 2005.) PUBLICATIONS–IN JOURNALS (sole or lead author) “Michael Soulé (1936-2020) on spirituality, ethics, and Conservation Biology,” Conservation Biology, accepted version online 9 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13634 “The Need for Ecocentrism in Biodiversity Conservation” (lead author with co-authors Guillaume Chapron, Helen Kopnina, Ewa Orlikowska, Joe Gray, and John Piccolo), Conservation Biology 34(5): 1089-1096; https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13541 “Apocalypse Then, Now—and Future?,” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 1(1):72-84, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.2020.8 “Afterword” to special issue focused on Dark Green Religion in ANQ: American Notes and Queries, 33(4): pages pending, published online 30 March 2020. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1744419 “Dark Green Humility: Religious, Psychological, and Affective Attributes of Proenvironmental Behaviors,” lead author, co-authors Todd Levasseur and Jennifer Wright, Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 10(1): 41–56, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s13412-019-00578-5. “Religion and Environmental Behaviour (part two): Dark-green Nature Spiritualities and the Fate of the Earth,” Ecological Citizen 3(2): 135–140, 2020. “Rebels against the Anthropocene? Ideology, Spirituality, Popular Culture, and Human Domination of the World within the Disney Empire,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 13(4): 414-454, 2019. DOI 10.1558/jsrnc.39044. “Religion and Environmental Behaviour (part one): World Religions & the Fate of the Earth,” Ecological Citizen 3(1): 71-76, 2019. “Animism, tree-consciousness, and the religion of life: reflections on Richard Powers’s The Overstory,” Minding Nature 12(1): 42-47, Winter 2019. “Religion and Eco-Resistance Movements in the 21st Century” (co-author Joseph Witt, who also co- edited this special issue), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 11(1): 5-21, 2017. “The United Nations (via religion and its affiliated agencies) to the rescue in the cause of conservation?” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10(4): 485-490, 2016. “The greening of religion hypothesis (part one): from Lynn White, Jr. and claims that religions can promote environmentally destructive attitudes and behaviors to assertions they are becoming environmentally friendly,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10(3): 268-305, 2016. 3 “The greening of religion hypothesis (part two): assessing the data from Lynn White, Jr., to Pope Francis” (with Gretel Van Wieren and Bernard Zaleha), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10(3): 306-378, 2016. “Lynn White Jr. and the greening-of-religion hypothesis” (with Gretel Van Wieren and Bernard Zaleha), Conservation Biology 30(5): 1000–1009, 2016. “Arborphilia through the Ages,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 9(4): 373-75, 2015. “Religion to the Rescue (?) in an Age of Climate Disruption,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 9(1): 7-18, 2015. “Dangerous Territory: The Contested Perceptual Spaces Between Imperial Conservation and Environmental Justice,” special issue edited by Christof Mauch and Libby Robin, “The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers,” RCC Perspectives 1: 117-122, 2014. (Rachel Carson Center, Munich) “Battleground Pandora: The war over James Cameron’s Avatar,” Bright Lights Film Journal, November 2013. (Adapted from Avatar and Nature Spirituality). “Arborphilia and Sacred Rebellion” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7(3): 239-42, 2013. “Its Not All About Us: Reflections on the State
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