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University of Wyoming
Jeff Lockwood

Jeff Lockwood
Professor
nonfiction

BS in Biology, New Mexico Tech; PhD in Entomology, Louisiana State University
lockwood@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-4260 • Hoyt Hall 332
Best Mode of Communication: E-mail

 

Nature-based essays published in journals such as Orion, Wild Earth, High Country News, Conservation in Practice, and Quest. Author of three books of nature/spiritual essays through Skinner House and the popular science/history book Locust: The devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier from Basic Books. Current book project is: Six-Legged Soldiers: A history of insects as weapons of war and terror (Oxford Univ. Press).

 Jeff Lockwood is a Core Faculty member.

 

Research Interests:
Writings that integrate nature and science with justice, ethics, and spirituality; the role of science/nature in human history and culture

 

Teaching:
Nonfiction workshops in nature writing, religious/spiritual writing, and writing for extraterrestrials; environmental justice and natural resource ethics; history and philosophy of ecology

 

Service:

Wyoming State Library, Center for the Book, Advisory Board; Kaiser Foundation advisory committee, "Strengthening the ethics curriculum at the University of Wyoming"; Board of the Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources; Advisory Board of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources; Associate Editor, Journal of Orthoptera Research.

 

Affiliations, Associations, Consultation:

 

Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming; Adjunct Professor of Natural Sciences (Science & Mathematics Teaching Center's Master of Science in Natural Science program), College of Education, University of Wyoming; Served on 120 graduate student committees in 21 departments, currently serving on MA, MS, MFA, and PhD committees in Anthropology, Botany, Creative Writing, English, Interdisciplinary Studies, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, and Psychology along with doctoral programs at Prescott College and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

 

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