Ph.D., Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, 1997
M.S., Ecology and Evolution, ibid., 1992
B.A., International Affairs, Trinity University, 1987
Associate professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Environment, McGill University, 2007-2020
Assistant professor, ibid., 2001-2007
Instructor and post-doctoral research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University, 1998-2001
Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1998
Coordinator, Environmental Center, ibid., 1997
Teaching assistant, Departments of Geophysical Sciences and Ecology and Evolution, ibid., 1990-1997
Instructor; Program in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine; ibid., 1993
Research assistant, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, 1993
Research assistant, Division of Mammals, Field Museum of Natural History, 1991-1992
Acting director, Recycling Office, University of Chicago, 1990
Cold Hollow to Canada
Board
member, 2019-present
Woodlots program, participant,
2017-present
Keeping Track program, wildlife monitor,
2015-present
Les Ateliers de l’Éthique/The Ethics Forum, executive editor for ethics and environment, 2015-present
Arrondissement Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, green alley program, Esplaneuve Green Committee, founding chair, 2014-present
Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife, cooperator, 2014-present
Environmental Ethics, editorial advisory board, member, 2013-present
Missisquoi River Basin Association, volunteer, 2010-present
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Use Value Appraisal program, participant, 2010-present
McGill Association of
University Teachers
Committee
on Work Accommodations, founding chair 2019-2020
Finance
Committee, member 2019-2020
MAUT Staff Remuneration Committee,
member 2019-2020
Collegiality
Committee, chair
2015-2018, member 2018-2020
Council, member 2012-2013,
vice-president (internal) 2013-2014, president-elect 2019-2020
McGill University Senate, senator, 2017-2020
Groupe de Recherche en Éthique Environnementale et Animale, founding member, 2015-2020
McGill Faculty and Librarians for Divestment, steering committee, founding member, 2014-2020
Centre de Recherche en Éthique, Environment Axis, founding co-director, 2014-2019
Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science, founding researcher, 2012-2018
New Peasant Farm, volunteer, 2015
United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program, participant, 2011-2015
United Nations, Expert Group Meeting on Reducing Inequality and Sustainable Development, discussant, 2013
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; Democracy School; student; 2007, 2008, and 2011
Tracker School, student, 2009
Megalith, lead singer, 2008-2009
Catskill Poetry Workshop, participant, 2004
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, workshop on "Ecological Metaphors", participant, 2004
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, participant, 2003
EarthWatch Institute, Lake Naivasha program, volunteer, 2000
National Endowment for the Humanities, summer seminar on "Philosophy of Experimental Inference", participant, 1999
Dibner Institute for the History of Science
Summer
seminar on "Competing Epistemologies in Biology",
participant, 1996
Summer seminar on "Ecology and
Conservation Biology",
participant, 1995
Summer seminar on "Extinctions",
participant,
1994
Organization for Tropical Studies, summer course on "Tropical Managed Ecosystems", student, 1990