Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beginning research in the world’s largest Muslim nation, in a lively essay, “Indonesian Dungeons and Dragons,” appearing in Nowhere magazine’s blog. “FOR NEW SCIENTISTS, ENTERING THE INDONESIAN PERMITTING PROCESS RESEMBLES venturing into an omnivore’s lair: narrow openings, uncertainty, dank corners. I’ve known colleagues who have nearly abandoned their field […]

This semester’s Nature and World Cultures students outdid themselves with substantive, professional work: projects focusing on the challenges of retaining and revitalizing biocultural diversity (ancestral lands and waters, culturally significant biota, indigenous languages), in collaboration with Northern Californian tribes. MICRODOCUMENTARIES: California Native Americans: Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation – YouTube video by Mary Yang, Jordan Zuchowski, […]

In addition to coupling the festival with a heart-healthy 5K Salmon Walk/Run, this year we chose to feature an abbreviated set of picks (one dozen instead of our usual 30+), and to make all the films available online. See our 2014 program here.

My essay entitled “All Our Relations” is one of two non-fiction essays in the Bellevue Literary Review issue devoted to Our Fragile Environment. “In university I was taught to scientifically classify organisms within the Tree of Life, dividing them into Kingdom, Phyla, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. A series of evolutionary events leading to us, […]

In our AMS/ENVS/HUM 159 Nature & World Cultures class, students complete a group project together with a Native Californian tribe, resulting in a micro-documentary, a published article, or a Wikipedia entry. You can view some of the micro-docs on my DrPfeiffer YouTube channel. We also just co-authored an article about this in the international journal […]