Christopher Coggins
Simon’s Rock at Bard CollegeChris is a professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College. He is the co-editor (with Bixia Chen) of Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (Routledge/Earthscan, 2022), and the co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (U. Washington, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (U. Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology; nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction). He is currently co-editing The SAGE Handbook on China's Environment (with Yifei Li) and a book on China's fengshui forests. He has published numerous refereed articles and chapters in geography, history, environmental studies, and Asia-related books and journals. In 2019, he was selected to serve for three years as one of fourteen scholars on the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau.
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