Gregory M. Mikkelson

514-398-4400, Extension 094660
gregory (dot) mikkelson (at) mcgill (dot) ca

Employment

Associate professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Environment, McGill University, 2007-present

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

Other Experience

Natural and cultural history tours in the Capahuari and Pastaza River watersheds, Ecuador, 2010

Wilderness survival course, Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School, New Jersey, 2009

Conservation research at Kibale National Park, Uganda, 2008

Democracy School; Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; New Hampshire, 2007; Montréal, 2008; Vermont, 2011

Hiking the Long Trail bit by bit, Vermont, 2006-present

Canoe expedition down the Old Factory River to James Bay, Québec, 2004

Catskill Poetry Workshop, New York, 2004

Field botany course at Mont Saint Hilaire, Québec; 2004

Workshop on "Ecological Metaphors", National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, California, 2004

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vermont, 2003

ABC English-language camp on the shore of Lake Baikal, Russia, 2003

Environmental research, EarthWatch Institute, in and around Lake Naivasha, Kenya, 2000

Seminar on "Philosophy of Experimental Inference", National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia, 1999

Seminar on "Competing Epistemologies in Biology", Dibner Institute for the History of Science, Massachusetts, 1996

Seminar on "Ecology and Conservation Biology", ibid., 1995

Seminar on "Extinctions", ibid., 1994

Biodiversity survey in the forest fragments of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1993

Field ecology course, Organization for Tropical Studies, La Selva and many other sites in Costa Rica, 1990

Formal Education

Ph.D., Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, 1997

M.S., Ecology and Evolution, ibid., 1992

B.A., International Affairs, Trinity University, 1987