CURRICULUM VITAE
Eric P. Perramond,
Geographer
Associate Professor of Southwest Studies
& Environmental Science
14 E
Phone: (719) 389 6241(office)
E-mail: eric
“dot” perramond “at” coloradocollege.edu
Education
PhD 1999 The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography
MA 1994 Louisiana State University, Geography.
BA 1992 Mary
Washington College (VA), Geography.
Positions and
Teaching Experience
2009- Colorado College: Associate Professor,
Director of the Environmental Program (2010-13)
2005-
Colorado College: Assistant Professor of
Southwest Studies & Environmental Science
1999-2005 Stetson University: Assistant Professor
of Geography & Environmental Science.
Environmental Science Coordinator,
2000-2005.
(turned
down promotion to Associate, tenure, and sabbatical in moving to CC)
Refereed
Publications
BOOKS
2010.
“Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern
Mexico: Private Revolutions,” University of Arizona Press (January).
ARTICLES and
Chapters
2011. Rittenburg*, Rebecca; Miro Kummel**; E. Perramond,). The local
climate-development nexus: Jatropha and smallholder
adaptation in Tamil Nadu, India. Climate
and Development 3(4): 328-343.
2011. Nabhan,
G.; K. Chambers; D. Tecklin; E. Perramond,
and T. Sheridan. Ethnobiology for a diverse world - Defining
new disciplinary trajectories: Mixing
political ecology with ethnobiology. Co-author (4). Journal
of Ethnobiology 31(1): 1-3.
2010.
Atomic Borderlands: Teaching the (End of the) Earth. For a special issue of the
journal Transformations 21(1):
99-111.
2010.
“Localism as Nationalism in the Eastern Pyrenees,” in Vaccaro,
2008.
The Rise, Fall, and Reconfiguration of the Mexican Ejido. Geographical Review 98(3): 356-371.
2007. “Localismo Como Nacionalismo en
los Pirineos Orientales” in Ecología Política
de los Pirineos: Estado, historia y paisaje, eds. I. Vaccaro and O. Beltran, pp. 189-205. Tremp (ESP): Garsineu Edicions.
2007. Tactics and strategies
in political ecology research. Area
39(4): 499-507.
2007.
Lesson, Outreach, and Research: Three Models of Undergraduate GIS Research at a
2005.
Melting the Kachinas: Agricultural Hegemony and
Indigenous Incorporation at Zuni
2005.
The Politics of Ecology: Wild Chili Collection in
2004. Desert Traffic: The Drug Corridor in
2002. Grazing the Periphery: The Political Ecology of Private Ranchers in
Sonora, Mexico. In Cultural and
Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and
2002. Sustaining a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile
Environment. Co-author (Doolittle, Sluyter, Perramond, Lambert and Crossley) in
2001. La Ganadería Sonorense y los Cambios Ecológicos: Una propuesta. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on the Environmental History of Livestock in
the New World, ed. L. Hernández, pp. 108-113.
Xalapa, Mexico: Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
2001. Oral History and Partial Truths in
2000.
A Preliminary Analysis of Soil Erosion and Buffelgrass
in
1996.
Hot Cows and Green Pastures in the Rio
1995.
Zuni Farming and the
* CC alum
** CC faculty
Book
Manuscripts:
Other
Publications
2008. Borders and Borderlands:
Overview. In the Encyclopedia
of the Modern World, ed. Erick Langer.
2003. In the Footsteps of
Sauer, Brand, Hewes and West: Field Trip Guide to
the
Work in Progress
Accepted, for 2012. The politics of scaling
water governance and adjudication in New Mexico. Water Alternatives 5(1): -- --.
“Militarized Spaces and Open
Range: Piñon Canyon and the Geographies of Rural
Resistance.” Fieldwork, summer 2008, summer 2010, with David
Havlick (UCCS Geography). MS presented at the RGS-IBG 2011 conference,
London, by DH.
Book
reviews:
Submitted. Privatizing
Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis (Cornell
University, 2010) by Karen Bakker. In Economic Geography.
2011. Stealing the Gila: The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation,
1848-1921 (University of Arizona, 2009) by David H. DeJong. In New Mexico Historical Review 86(4):
536-537.
2011. Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global
Dreamtimes of Environmentalism (University of Washington Press, 2010) by
Tracey Heatherington. H-Net reviews (Historical Geography) located at: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=31122
2010.
Gardening the World: Agency, Identity,
and the Ownership of Water (Bergahn Books, 2009)
by Veronica Strang. In Journal of Anthropological Research.
Volume 66 (4): 577-578.
2009. Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton
along the Mexico-Texas Border (Texas A&M University Press, 2008) by
Casey Walsh. In Journal
of Historical Geography TBA.
2008.
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and
Violence in
2006.
Landscapes of Power and Identity
(Duke University Press, 2005) by Cynthia Radding. On H-Net, Historical Geography.
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=157161205257776
2006.
2006
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
(
2005.
Downsizing the State: Privatization and
the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in
2005.
Ranching, Endangered Species and
Urbanization in the Southwest (
2004. Native Peoples of the Southwest: Negotiating Land, Water, and
Ethnicities (Greenwood Publishing Co., 2001) ed. Laurie Weinstein. In Historical Geography 32: 194-96.
2004.
Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic
(
2002. La Gran Línea: Mapping the
United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857 (
2000.
Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical
Deciduous Forest & Environs of Northwest Mexico (University of Arizona
Press, 1998) edited by Paul Martin,
David Yetman, Mark Fishbein,
Phil Jenkins, Thomas Van Devender, and Rebecca
Wilson. In Journal of Ethnobiology
20 (1): 72-3.
1997.
1996.
Essays on the Changing Images of the
Southwest (University of Texas A&M Press, 1994) edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett in
the Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 86(3):596-7.
1996.
Sharing the Desert: The Tohono O'Oodham in history (University of Utah Press, 1994) by
Winston Erickson in the Journal of
Historical Geography.
1994.
The Hispano
1993.
The People: Indians of the American Southwest by Stephen Trimble in the Cultural Ecology Newsletter 24:5-6.
1993.
Gardens of Prehistory (The University of Alabama Press, 1992) edited by Thomas Killion in the Cultural
Ecology Newsletter 22:6-7.
Research
Interests
Political Ecology & Natural Resources
Latin
America, Greater Southwest/Mexican Northwest,
Environmental
Geography, Conservation
Climate
Change (Policy) & Water Resources
Field
& Research Techniques
GIS,
student-based research & pedagogy
Research
Grants
2010-11:
Jackson Fellowship for “The
formation of hydraulic expertise and water governance in New Mexico.” Summer 2011 field and archival work.
2010-2011:
Social Science Executive Committee, $2400.00 for direct housing subsidy in New
Mexico during the summer of 2011.
2010-2011:
Natural Science Executive Committee: $638.00 for supplementary conference travel to the Environmental
Governance Workshop, May 17-20, 2011 in Ft. Collins, CO (part of the Earth
System Governance network)
2010-11:
Mediterranean Cultures & Languages, Mellon-funded course development for
“Mediterranean Terroirs: Human-Environments” Stipend and travel funds for the
summers of 2010 and 2011.
2009:
Benezet Fellowship, summer research on water
adjudication in New Mexico.
2008-09:
Social Science Executive Committee, funds for field research in New Mexico
(Water Adjudication and Acequias).
2008-09:
Jackson Fellowship funding for field work on regional political ecological
class-based research projects in SW301 (Political Ecology of the Southwest),
teaching and course enhancement purposes.
2008:
SSEC Book Subvention Grant, for Private
Revolutions (University of Arizona Press, publication date TBA).
2007-08:
Jackson Fellowship funding for field work on water rights in New Mexico (Summer
2007).
2007:
Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Grant for student research on water
adjudication and land easements in New Mexico. $2500 to Mary
(Molly) Dilg, June-August, 2007.
2006-07:
Mrachek Fellowship for work on book manuscript, Desert Meadows. (Summer
2006).
(2005-)2006
Social Science Executive Committee, funds for research in the libraries of the
University of Texas at Austin (summer 2006) and for travel to the American
Society for Environmental History meetings in St. Paul, MN (March-April,
2006).
2003 Summer Research Fund, for "Pyrenean Depopulation and the Environmental Degradation of Rural Landscapes." Project began in France/Spain during summer of 2003.
2000 Summer Research Fund, for “Institutions and
Environmental Change: Privatizing Ejidos in the
region of
External:
AAG Enrichment Fund Grant,
for David Barkin (U.Autonoma
de Xochimilco, Mexico); to cover registration costs
at the 2008 meetings of the Association of American Geographers, November 28, 2007.
The
Historical Geography of Cattle Ranching in
IIE
J. William Fulbright Award for dissertation research in
C.B.
Smith Dissertation Enhancement Research Grant - awarded by the Mexican Center
of the Institute of Latin American Studies for travel to Mexico City, Summer
1996.
Tinker
Foundation Fieldwork Research Grant awarded for preliminary research on changes
in Sonoran agriculture and ranching, summer 1995.
Center
for Francophone Studies of Louisiana State University, grant for translation of
Elisée Reclus' account of
post colonial
Teaching &
Course Enhancement Grants
Mellon
Foundation grant for languages and Mediterranean Studies, for new course on
Mediterranean Terroirs: Human Environments, summers of 2010 and 2011. Course to
be taught block A, 2013.
Curriculum
Development Grant, for revising the first-year experience (FYE) course
development in Southwest Studies, during summer
of 2008, with Anne Hyde (History-Southwest Studies).
Mellon
Foundation, funding for course development in the new environmental science
major at Colorado College – EV421 Environmental Synthesis (Global Climate
Change Policy), with
Stetson University Hand Grant for course improvement and professional development for “GIS Integration & Outreach in the Natural Sciences.” Project period: 6/01-8/01/2004.
Stetson University Hollis Mentored Field Experience in
Stetson University Hand Grant for course improvement and enhancement fund for development of ESS101 (Introduction to Environmental Science) and ESS201 (Environmental Field Methods). Project period: 6/01 – 8/01/2001
Teaching
Interests & Courses Offered
Colorado College (active courses, offered regularly)
FYE 175: The Southwest: An
Introduction (first-year student seminar)
SW272: Nature, Region, and
Society of the Southwest (research methods + GIS)
SW301 Political Ecology of
the Southwest
SW400-401: Senior project in
Southwest Studies
EV128: Introduction to Global
Climate Change (fall 2012)
EV221: Environmental Inquiry
(research methods)
EV321: Environmental
Management
EV499: Senior Theses
EV421 Synthesis: Global
Climate Change (&Policy (w/Price-Smith)*
- twice
Past courses
HY200/SW250: History and
Geography of the Colorado River (w/Hyde)*
- 2005
EV155 Introductory Earth
Systems Science (2005-07)
SW102 Place, Space and the
Southwest (2007)
Research
Presentations
2011.
The political ecology of terroirs in Catalunya. Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Montreal, Canada, November 17-20.
2011.
Blood in the Waters: Identity, indigeneity, and
adjudication in New Mexico. Presentation for the American
Studies department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November 11.
2011.
“Scaling water governance with adjudication in New Mexico.” Presentation and
paper prepared for the annual meetings of the Association of American
Geographers, in the special sessions on Water governance and the politics of
scale: A critical examination of water governance in a multi-scalar environment,
Seattle, WA April 14.
2011.
Panelist, session on “Human Environment Interactions in the Borderlands” at the
annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April
13.
2010.
“Private Revolutions: Mexican Ranching in the Borderlands.” Invited presentation
for the University of Arizona Department of Geography
Colloquium Series, October 8, 2010.
2010.
“Blood in the Waters: Governance and Ethnicity in New Mexico.” Invited presentation for Geography 408 Arizona and the Southwest,
University of Arizona, Tucson. October 7th.
2010.
“Acequias, adjudication, and governance changes.”
Presentation prepared for the annual meetings of the Association of American
Geographers, Chair & organizer of session Interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental justice in
2010.
Co-organizer of panel on Ethics of Latin
American Fieldwork, annual meetings of the Association of American
Geographers, Washington, D.C. April 15, 2010.
2009.
“Private Revolutions: Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in
2009.
“México después del neoliberalismo”
(Mexico after neoliberalism), session organizer, and paper presented at the
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers meeting
in Granada, Nicaragua, January 7-10, 2009.
2008.
Co-author with Molly Dilg
(CC student), “Adjudication before neo-liberalism: Water rights in
2007.
Co-author with Molly Dilg
(CC student), “Liquid Relations: Water Rights in
2007.
“Private Revolutions: Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in northern
2007.
“PROCEDE at 15 years: The Geography of Ejido
Privatization in
2007. Chair & Organizer, panel session on Cattle and Capitalism in
the Age of Neo-liberalism at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.
2007. “The Devil’s Wire and
Neo-liberal Enclosure: Material and Conceptual Privatization in
2006. “Depopulation,
degradation and extensification in the Catalonian Pyrénées” Paper
presented in the session Political
Ecology of Pyrenean Landscapes, at the meetings of the American Society for
Environmental History, St. Paul, MN, March 29-April 2, 2006.
2006. “Long waves of
neo-liberalism and privatization in
2006. Chair, “Participatory mapping and indigenous peoples” at the Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers,
2006. Panelist, “Environmental Politics and
2005. “The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Ejido.” Paper presented in the session Geografía Latinoamericana: Economía y sociedad at the
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in
2005. “Intermediate
Ecological and Post-Structural theories for Political Ecology.” Paper to be presented in special session on Concepts and Theories in Cultural and Political Ecology, at the
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April
5-9, 2005. Co-organizer of sessions I and II, Chair of
session II.
2005. Panelist, “Nature,
Politics and Resources in the Arid Realm II” at the Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
2005. Invited Discussant in
session “Politics of Scale: Environment, Community and Justice” at the Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9,
2005.
2004. “An Evaluation of Soil
Nutrient Variability under Three Dominant Land Cover Types in Southwestern
Florida” – Poster by
2004. “Geographic Contexts
for Land Privatization in
2004. “Human Impact & Ehnoecology of Chiltepín (Capsicum annuum
var. aviculare)
Collection in
2004. "Pyrenean Depopulation
and Landscape Degradation in the 20th Century." Paper presented at the annual meetings of
the Association of American Geographers in special session “Political Ecologies of European Landscapes,”
Chair & Organizer: EPP.
2004. “Reclus’
Influence and Contributions to Geographic Theory.” Panel remarks presented at
the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in special
session “Anarchism and Geography: Past Issues and Contemporary Opportunities,”
Organizer & Co-Chair: EPP with
2004. “Historical materialism and
material cultures.” Panel presentation at the annual meetings
of the Association of American Geographers in special session “Roots &
Retrospective” of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group.
2004. “Agricultural Hegemony at
Zuni
2003. "Land Tenure and
Environmental Change in
2003. “
2003. “Institutional
Dimensions of Environmental Change in
2003. “Rancher
tactics and environmental strategy in the Rio Sonora of Mexico.” Paper
presented in the
2002. "Neo-Liberal
Landscapes of Agrarian Mexico: Cases from the state of Guanajuato." Paper
delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers
in
2001.
"NAFTA and the Tortoise: Privatization of the Mexican Commons in
2001. "Digging Up The Dirt: Fieldwork, Oral
History, and Partial Truths." Paper delivered at the annual conference of
the Association of American Geographers in
2000. "Ecology and Ideology: Private Landscapes of
2000. “Elisée Reclus
and Post-Colonial
1999.
"Desert Traffic: The Drug Corridor in
1998. “Grazing the Periphery: The Political Ecology of Private Ranchers in
1998.
"Buffelgrass, Conservation, and Soil Erosion in
1997.
"Greener Pastures? Trends in the Cattle Industry of
Sonora, Mexico." Presentation delivered at the annual conference of
the Association of American Geographers in Forth Worth,
1996. "Cambios Ecológicos en Sonora
durante la Colonia." Paper delivered at the International Conference on the Environmental
History of Livestock in the New World,
1996.
"Geographical Problems in the Historiography of Sonoran
Cattle Ranching." Presentation delivered at the annual conference of the
Association of American Geographers in
1996.
Panel discussant for "Biological Conservation in the Texas-Mexico
Borderlands: Science and Policy" organized by the
1996. "Problemas Historiográficos en la Geografía de la Ganadería
Sonorense." Paper
delivered at the Conference of Latin Americanist
Geographers in
1995.
"Colonial Landscapes of Cultivation at Zuni
1995.
"A Political Ecology of the Zuni Indian Reservation: 1846-1993."
paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American
Geographers in
1993.
"Zuni agriculture in the 20th century." Paper delivered at the
Southwest Association of American Geographers in
1993.
"Beyond the Garden Thing: Zuni agriculture in the twentieth century."
Paper presented in the Department of Geography and Anthropology,
1993.
"Ethnicity and Cultural Ecology in
1993. "Land Ethics in
Service
FYE Committee, 2007-09
Math & C.S. Search Committee, 2007-08
Information
Technology Advisory Board, 2006-07
Director,
Environmental Program, 2010-13
EV Committee,
2005-present
EV
Candidate Search Committee, Fall 2006
EV Steering
Committee for evaluation of Miro Kummel, 2007-2013
Southwest
Studies Faculty Advisory Committee,
2005-present
Study Abroad Faculty Advisor,
Latin American
Studies ad hoc committee, 2005 - present
GIS
Steering Committee, 2005-present
GIS
Technical Director search committee member (7-8/2005 and 7-8/2007)
New
Faculty
Service Presentations (CC)
Service to the discipline(s):
http://www.stetson.edu/artsci/cape/
Professional
Development & Awards
·
National Sciences Executive Council, funds to attend the Colorado Earth System Governance Conference,
May 17-20, 2011, for Environmental Program enrichment, curriculum planning, and
course design plans.
·
GLCA/Japan Fund, summer 2010 – “Nature and Environment in Japan” –
workshop on incorporating materials, with field study, from Japan (June 1-10,
2010).
·
NEH Summer Institute, 2009 - Nature and History at the Nation’s Edge, held at the University of Arizona (Tucson), June
14-July 11. This summer institute is focused on bringing together environmental
historians with borderlands scholars and theory to improve joint scholarship on
the region that seriously considers bi-national environments as crucial to
borderlands scholarship.
·
Joseph T. Gordon Prize, 2009 – Given by the Hulbert
Center for Southwest Studies for the volume “Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private
Revolutions” (2010, University of Arizona Press), the prize recognizes
outstanding achievement in scholarship or creative expression.
·
ACM FaCE Visiting Scholars Initiative – Two
visits by EPP to
·
Southwest Studies Regional Research Initiative Faculty Development
Institute,
·
Applied for NSF Workshop, Summer 2005, Integrating GIS into Watershed Analysis,
7.29-8.2.2005 at SUNY-Brockport. Declined
5/2005.
·
Geography Faculty Development Alliance, professional workshop, June
19-26, 2004 held at the Department of Geography, University of
Colorado-Boulder.
·
May-June 2003 - Summer Fellow, Center for
the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (Indiana
University-Bloomington). CIPEC is a
professional development institute on GIS, remote sensing and
survey/questionnaire integration for human dimensions of global change
research.
·
1998-99 Bruton Fellow - Awarded by the Office
of Graduate Studies, The
·
1998 2nd place in student paper competition – Southwestern
Division of the AAG meetings in
·
1996 2nd place in student paper competition - Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers conference,
·
1993 3rd place in student paper competition - Southwest Social Sciences
Association conference,
·
1992 H. Thompson Straw Award for Academic Excellence - Department of
Geography,
Memberships in
Professional Organizations
American Geographical Society
Association of American Geographers
American Society for
Environmental History
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
Fieldwork
Languages
French:
Bilingual (Dual citizenship)
Spanish:
Advanced (oral/reading; written form: good); ACTFL-certified as "
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