Fellow Story

Switzer Fellow-authored books in 2019 & 2020

Fellow(s): Eunice Blavascunas, Eric Dolin, Mark Elbroch, Ayana Johnson, Kevin Kung, Noa Lincoln, Jonathan Scheuer, Don Weber, Elisabeth Stoddard, Sarah Johnson

 

We compiled a list of books authored or edited by Switzer Fellows in late 2019 and 2020. If we missed adding a work, please let us know so we can add it.

Blavascunas, Eunice. Foresters, Borders and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest.  Indiana University Press; 2020.

Dolin, Eric Jay. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes. Liveright; 2020.

Elbroch, Mark. The Cougar Conundrum: Sharing the World with a Successful Predator. Island Press; 2020.

Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth (editor), Wilkinson, Katharine K. (editor). All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. One World; 2020.

Johnson, Sarah S.. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World. Crown; 2020.

Kung, Kevin. How to Drink from a Fire Hose: What MIT taught me about innovation, leadership and the pursuit of life. (available in simplified Chinese)

Lincoln, Noa. Kō: An Ethnobotanical Guide to Hawaiian Sugarcane Cultivars. University of Hawaii Press; 2020.

Scheuer, Jonathan L., Isaki, Bianca K. Water and Power in West Maui. (planned release in 2020)

Sorensen, W. Conner, Smith, Edward H. and Smith, Janet R., with Weber, Donald C. Charles Valentine Riley: Founder of Modern Entomology. The University of Alabama Press; 2019.

Wobbe, Kristin K., Stoddard, Elisabeth A. Project-Based Learning in the First Year: Beyond All Expecations. Stylus Publishing; 2019.

 

Meet the Fellows in this Story

Eunice Blavascunas

Eunice Blavascunas

2005 Fellow
Eunice is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the...
Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Dolin

1989 Fellow
I grew up near the coasts of New York and Connecticut, and since an early age I was fascinated by the natural world, especially the ocean. I spent many days wandering the beaches on the edge of Long Island Sound and the Atlantic, collecting...
Mark Elbroch

Mark Elbroch

2011 Fellow
Mark Elbroch earned his PhD in Ecology while studying pumas in Chilean Patagonia at the University of California, Davis . Mark's conservation research focuses on four areas: 1) Re-establishing an appreciation for natural history training as...
Kevin Kung

Kevin Kung

2013 Fellow
Kevin Kung earned his Ph.D. from MIT, focusing on biofuels and renewable energy, and specializes in biomass and energy conversion systems, engineering design in resource-constrained settings, and waste industry innovation. In 2012, by...
Noa Lincoln

Noa Lincoln

2012 Fellow
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln exhibits a passion for life that keeps him energetically engaged in a broad range of communities. Born and raised in Hawaii he connects strongly with the Hawaiian culture, which places environment at the core of human...
Jonathan Scheuer

Jonathan Scheuer

1998 Fellow
Jonathan currently continues his career work on the resolution and management of conflict over natural resources as a private consultant, advising private and public clients on conservation and Native Hawaiian policy and strategy...
Don Weber

Don Weber

1990 Fellow
Don Weber grew up in northern Virginia with a knowledge of plants, insects and birds imparted by Burgundy Wildlife Camp and its staff. After obtaining his BA in Biology at Williams College, and an MS in Entomology at UC Berkeley with...
Elisabeth Stoddard

Elisabeth Stoddard

2013 Fellow
Elisabeth Stoddard, or Lisa, is an Associate Professor, TRT, and the co-Director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. She teaches courses focused on environmental...

Sarah Johnson

2007 Fellow
Sarah Johnson is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. From 2009-2011, Sarah worked on climate and sustainability issues in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; prior to that, she completed field...