Jake Kosek

JAKE KOSEK, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Jake is currently an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Jake Kosek received his doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and a master's degree at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1995). After receiving his doctorate, he held the Lang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University and was also a lecturer there in the department of cultural and social anthropology. Subsequently, he received the Ciriacy-Wantrup fellowship in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor of Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference (Duke Duke University Press, 2003), which explores the intersections of critical theories of race and nature, and sole author of Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico (Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2006), an ethnography that explores the cultural politics of nature, race, and nation amid violent struggles over forest resources in northern New Mexico. Jake teaches courses on the cultural politics of nature, political ecology, environmental justice, critical natural history, science and technology studies, critical race and labor theory.

current address is

Jake Kosek
Department of American Studies and Anthropology
Ortega Hall, Room 315b
MSC03 2110
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, Nm 87131-0001
phone:505-277-0123
email: Jake@unm.edu