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Dr. West’s broad scholarly interest is the relationship between societies and their environments. More specifically, she has written about the intersections between indigenous epistemic practices and conservation science, the linkages between environmental conservation and international development, the material and symbolic ways in which the natural world is understood and produced, the aesthetics and poetics of human social relations with nature, and the creation of commodities and practices of consumption. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Australia, Germany, England, and the United States.
Dr. West’s most recent books are Dispossession and The Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea (2016, Columbia University Press), From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea (2012, Duke University Press) (2013 runner up for the Julian Steward Award from the American Anthropological Association; one of the finalist for the 2014 Society for Economic Anthropology book award), Conservation is our Government now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (2006, Duke University Press), Tropical Forests of Oceania, co-edited with Joshua Bell and Colin Filer, and, co-edited with James G. Carrier, Virtualism, Governance, and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation (2009 Berghahn Press). She is also the author of numerous articles. Dr. West is currently writing a book about climate change, extinction, and the anthropology of kinship.
Dr. West has given lectures about her research across the United States and in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, England, Malaysia, and Canada.
In 2002 Dr. West received the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology and Environment Junior Scholar Award, in 2004 she received the American Association of University Women Junior Faculty Fellowship and the American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship, and in 2006 she received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. In 2012 she became the Chair of the Ecology and Culture University Seminar at Columbia University. In 2013 Dr. West delivered the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures at Columbia University. In 2017 / 2018 she was the distinguished national speaker for Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. West is a past president of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association as well as past chair of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania and past chair of the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. She is also the founder of the journal Environment and Society: Advances in Research and served as its editor for a decade.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. West is a co-founder of the PNG Institute of Biological Research, a small NGO dedicated to building academic opportunities for research in PNG for Papua New Guineans. She is now on its board of directors. Dr. West is also the volunteer anthropologist for the PNG NGO Ailan Awareness (AA), a marine-focused organization that works with communities in New Ireland and New Hanover to facilitate the conservation of their traditions, languages, and natural resources.
Dr. West’s most recent books are Dispossession and The Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea (2016, Columbia University Press), From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea (2012, Duke University Press) (2013 runner up for the Julian Steward Award from the American Anthropological Association; one of the finalist for the 2014 Society for Economic Anthropology book award), Conservation is our Government now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (2006, Duke University Press), Tropical Forests of Oceania, co-edited with Joshua Bell and Colin Filer, and, co-edited with James G. Carrier, Virtualism, Governance, and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation (2009 Berghahn Press). She is also the author of numerous articles. Dr. West is currently writing a book about climate change, extinction, and the anthropology of kinship.
Dr. West has given lectures about her research across the United States and in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, England, Malaysia, and Canada.
In 2002 Dr. West received the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology and Environment Junior Scholar Award, in 2004 she received the American Association of University Women Junior Faculty Fellowship and the American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship, and in 2006 she received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. In 2012 she became the Chair of the Ecology and Culture University Seminar at Columbia University. In 2013 Dr. West delivered the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures at Columbia University. In 2017 / 2018 she was the distinguished national speaker for Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. West is a past president of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association as well as past chair of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania and past chair of the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. She is also the founder of the journal Environment and Society: Advances in Research and served as its editor for a decade.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. West is a co-founder of the PNG Institute of Biological Research, a small NGO dedicated to building academic opportunities for research in PNG for Papua New Guineans. She is now on its board of directors. Dr. West is also the volunteer anthropologist for the PNG NGO Ailan Awareness (AA), a marine-focused organization that works with communities in New Ireland and New Hanover to facilitate the conservation of their traditions, languages, and natural resources.
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Naturalist Historiespp.31-50, (2024)
kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropologyno. 1 (2023): 49-56
Yin Zhang,Paige West,Lerato Thakholi,Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Miriam Supuma, Dakota Straub,Samantha S. Sithole,Roshan Sharma,Judith Schleicher, Ben Ruli, David Rodriguez-Rodriguez,Mattias Borg Rasmussen,
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCESno. 1 (2023): 559-588
John Aini,Paige West,Yolarnie Amepou, Michael Ladi Piskaut, Cornelius Gasot, Rachel S. James, Jason Steadman Roberts, Patrick Nason, Anna Elyse Brachey
ORYXno. 3 (2023): 350-359
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacificpp.47-75, (2021)
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