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Feature Associate Professor Michael P. Nelson releases his new book - The Wilderness Debate Rages On.

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Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a crossdisciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of “wilderness” and the controversies that surrounded them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best work done on the concept of wilderness over the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept... Read more...

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Dr. Georgina Montgomery
Dr. Georgina Montgomery examines the history of field primatology and animal behavior studies. She analyzes the development of field sites and methods for the study of "natural" primate behavior and how these studies have been used to justify and/or explain various human behaviors and social hierarchies.
December Events
Dec 11
Mark Largent, James Madison:“When History Hurts: How Historical memory Shapes Public Policy Debates”
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