Curriculum Vitae Alesia Maltz, Ph.D.

Antioch New England Graduate School P.O. Box 63 40 Avon Street Colebrook, CT 06021 Keene, New Hampshire 03431 860-738-7460 603-283-2342 [email protected]

Current Research Interests

The History of Nutrition, especially Vitamin D The Relationship between Nutrition and Environment Environmental History Cultural and Public Health Implications of Climate Change in Innu and Inuit Communities in Labrador Community Capacity-building through History Public Health and Environmental Policy Traditional Ecological Knowledge Renewing Intergeneration Knowledge in Agriculture Environmental Arts and Design

Education

Ph.D., 1989, University of Illinois History Department

M.A., 1981, University of Illinois History Department, and Program in the Science, Technology, and Society

B.A., 1978, Hampshire College, major in evolutionary theory and vertebrate paleontology

Employment

Director, Interdisciplinary Master of Arts, Antioch University, 2013-present

Environmental Studies Doctoral Program Acting Director, 2012-2013

Core Faculty Member, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School, 1996-present

Faculty Member in History, College of the Atlantic, 1988-1996

Associate Dean, College of the Atlantic, 1992-1996

Adjunct Faculty Member, Sitting Bull Tribal College, 2002-2004

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Adjunct Faculty Member, Fort Berthold Tribal College, 1998-2000

Adjunct Faculty Member, Tunxis Community College, 2002

Research Associate, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management 1984-1988

Research Associate, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, 1984-1988

Technical Information Specialist and Junior Historian, US Geological Survey, 1978-1980

Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Departments of Chemistry, Geology, and History1981-1984

Publications

Sunshine and Supplements: Food, Environment and the History of Vitamin D. Book under review.

Maltz, Alesia and Dean. P. Fox. “Keep it Flowing: The Restoration Ecology of Indigenous Culture and Language along the Missouri River,” Rivers and Society. Routledge 2017. In press.

Osgood, K., Maltz, A., and Kayira, J. “Resilient Northern Voices: Traditional Knowledge in the Academy.” In Бурятский государственный университет (Улан-Удэ) Конференция: Arctic Dialogue In The Global World 213-216. Ulan- Ude: Buryat State University Publishing Department, 2015.

Maltz, A. “Plant a Victory Garden: Our Food is Fighting:” Lessons of Food Resilience from World War. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 5(3) (2015): 392-403.

Maltz, Alesia, and Allison Arwady. “Eradicating the ‘English Disease:’ Rickets, History and Political Will.” History and Policy, in press.

“Arts and Design.” In Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices, edited by Debra Rowe, 33-39. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014.

“Casimer Funk, Non-Conformist Nomenclature and the Networks Surrounding the Discovery of Vitamins.” Journal of Nutrition 143 (2013): 1013-20.

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“The Art of Farming: Cultivating Innovative Local Knowledge.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 23 (2012): 61-77.

“The History of Textiles in Connecticut.” Exhibit design and construction, presentation, and program guide for docents developed for The Historical Society of Barkhamsted, CT, 2011.

Maltz, A., Chief Wabiska Mukwa (Zane Bell), and Chief Dr. Yvonne Fulton, Women’s Council, Elders Council. “The Grandmothers are Speaking: The Active History of the Algonquin Woodland Métis Aboriginal Tribe.” Presentation and report submitted to the Minister of the Environment, Environment Canada, 2008.

“Tribal, First Nations, and Métis Participation in US and Canadian Water Policy.” Expert Testimony submitted before the Bi-National Toxics Project, Chicago, August 20, 2006.

“Houston, We Have a Problem.” Poems on the Road to Peace 3 (2004): 53.

“A Conversation with Lewis Hyde.” Gratitude and Greed, Whole Terrain, 11 (2003): 37-46.

“Quality for Quantity: Looking for Soul in Our Daily Lives; An Interview with Thomas Moore.” Surplus and Scarcity, Whole Terrain, 10 (2002): 40-45.

Maltz, Alesia, and Dean P. Fox. “To Set Tongues Wagging Again: Endangered Languages of the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikiara.” Proceedings, Foundation for Endangered Languages 3 (1999): 23-30.

“Ironing.” Earth’s Daughters 55 (1999): 21-22.

“Quilting.” In Transience, Permanence and Commitment, Whole Terrain, 1999: 60-61.

“Beyond Coalitions: Partnerships for Environmental and Social Change.” Creative Collaborations, Whole Terrain 6 (1998): 17-23.

“Religion in the Forum of Public Policy.” Journal of Law and Religion, XI (1994- 5): 793-833.

“Human Ecology in the Scottish Isles.” In Chance and Change, edited by William Carpenter, 23-29. Bar Harbor: College of the Atlantic, 1995.

Smith, Edwin and Alesia Maltz, EPARegion 5 “Environmental Justice Action Plan for Implementing Executive Order 12898 to Promote Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low Income Populations,” 1994.

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Review of Chills and Fever by Robert Fortuine. Alaska History 6 (1991): 38-39.

Lasch, Kathryn, Alesia Maltz, Frederick Mosteller, and Tor Tosteson. “A Protocol Approach to Assessing Medical Technologies.” International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 3 (1987): 103-122.

“Negative Causality.” Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin 40 (1987): 41-44.

Professional Service

• Member, Committee on the History of Nutrition, American Society of Nutrition (ASN), 2013-2016 • Member, Working Group on Resilience and Food Security, Association of Environmental Studies and Science (AESS) 2013-2015 • Board Member of the award-winning journal, Whole Terrain, 1998-present • History Consultant, The Historical Society of Barkhamsted, CT, 2011-present • Consultant, The Greenhorns “Grange Futures” Project, 2013-2014 • Chair, Institutional Review Board, Social and Environmental Research Institute, 2008-present • Board Member, Farmington Valley Watershed Association, 2005-2007 • Expert Testimony, Bi-National Toxics Project (US/Canada), 2006 • History Consultant, The Eastern Algonquin Woodland Métis, 2004-2010 • Consultant, Friends of Hudson, 2004-2006 • Organizer, Intergenerational Wisdom Conference, 2000 • Board member, The Maine Humanities Collaborative, 1992-1996 • History and Health Policy Consultant, Penobscot Nation Natural Resources Department, 1992-1996 • Cross Examiner on social impacts of super-quarries in Scotland, 1995 • Community Consultation on public health, cultural and social impacts of a coastal super-quarry on the Isle of Harris, Scotland and Nova Scotia, Canada 1990-2002 • Curriculum Collaborator, Program for an Integrated Science major in MicMac Biology, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1997 • Conference Co-coordinator, New England Environmental Studies Consortium, 1995 • Member, Principal’s (President’s) Initiative on Environmental Education Across the Curriculum, Edinburgh University, Scotland, 1994 • Member, History of Science Society, 1985-present o Member, Sub-Committee on Employment o Member, Women’s Committee o First Student Member, Committee on Undergraduate Education • President, History Graduate Student’s Association, University of Illinois, 1981

Skills and Awards

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• Excellent Teacher Award, University of Illinois • Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Illinois • Templeton Foundation 1998-1999, model grant award • Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society • Invited to speak at Oxford, University of Toronto, NASA, Yale, etc. • Grants and Fellowships received from: o National Science Foundation o The Templeton Foundation o Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine o American Institute for the History of Pharmacy o South Dakota Humanities Council o University of Illinois Fellow o Travelli Foundation Scholar o Living Springs Foundation o Samual P. Pardoe Foundation o Title 3 o Connecticut State Scholar

Professional Societies

• American Society of Environmental History • Association for the Study of Food and Society • History of Science Society • Agricultural History Society • American Society of Nutrition • Association Environmental Studies and Science

University Courses Taught

• Writing Seminar (LDII), graduate • Resilience and Health Seminar, graduate • Research Planning Seminar (LDI), graduate • Political Economy and Sustainability, graduate • Diversity, Justice and Inclusion, graduate • Rural Studies, graduate • Food Systems and Food Sovereignty Seminar, graduate • Environmental History, graduate and undergraduate • Art, Culture, Nature, graduate • Environmental Art, graduate • Environmental History and Policy of Water, graduate • Environmental History of the Missouri River, graduate, undergraduate • Sacred Story, graduate • The Circle of Science and Spirituality, graduate and undergraduate • Ecological Diasporas, graduate 5

• Global Environmental Change (History and Policy of Climate Change), graduate • Indigenous Knowledge and Community Action, graduate • Environmentalism and Justice, graduate, undergraduate • History of American Reform Movements, undergraduate • The Modern World (20th century World History), undergraduate • Maine Island History and Geography, undergraduate • Islands: History and Natural History, undergraduate • Caribbean Ecology, History and Navigation, undergraduate • Caribbean History and Geography, undergraduate • Historical Geography, undergraduate • American History Survey, undergraduate • History of Evolutionary Theory, undergraduate • Human Ecology Core Course, undergraduate • Technology and Society, undergraduate • Science and Society, undergraduate • Medicine and Culture, undergraduate • Textile Design, undergraduate • Nutrition, Food Policy and History, undergraduate • US History Survey, undergraduate

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