Curriculum Vitae from March 2011

DEAN L.Y. BAVINGTON

Canada Research Chair in Environmental History
Associate Professor
History & Geography Departments
Nipissing University
100 College Drive, Box 5002
North Bay, Ontario
Canada P1B 8L7

Office #705-474-3461 ext. 4670
Email: deanba@nipissingu.ca
Website: www.deanbavington.org
Blog: http://www.deanbavington.org/category/blog/

Current Employment

2008 – present Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Environmental History
History and Geography Departments. Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada

2008 – present Associate Professor (Adjunct)
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Education

Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.
Dissertation: Of Fish and People: Managerial Ecology in Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries. (Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal & Dissertation Gold Medal)

Sept. 1995 – Sept. 1997 Master of Environmental Studies
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON.
Thesis: An Unhealthy Neighbourhood at an Inauspicious Hour: Environmental Management During the Ecocrisis

Sept. 1991 – June 1995 Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours)
Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.
Honours Thesis: Stepping Back From the Environmental Mural: Domination Over, Management Of, or Partnership With Nature?

Research Grants & Experience

2010- 2015 Laurentian University, Community University Research Alliance (CURA) – Northern Homelessness ($1,000,000)
This five year, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research project involves researchers from seven universities representing over a dozen disciplines. Working with community, First Nation, and social service partners the research is being conducted using collaborative and critical methods to address identified priorities in the area of homelessness in Northern Ontario.

2008 – Nipissing University – Canada Research Chair, Environmental Histories of Managerial Ecology in 2013 Canada ($500,000)
My Tier 2 CRC research, and that of the students and colleagues I advise and work with, is focused on exploring the history of, and articulating living alternatives to, managerial approaches to Nature. I continue to research the management of marine life and life ways and have expanded to focus on the histories of ordering and managing First Nations, and the environmental history of Northern Ontario, Inland Fisheries and the local area.

2008 – 2013 Canada Foundation for Innovation: Digital Infrastructure Grant ($37,000)
The Nipissing University Environmental History Research Lab (NUEHRL) brings together maps, images, text, and audio-visual oral histories in streaming and downloadable formats providing research materials for environmental history researchers located around the world. The lab serves to strengthen and encourage the impressive growth of Canadian environmental history research activities and help prevent overlap in this new interdisciplinary field by integrating the lab within developing national and international networks.

2010 Social Science and Humanities Research Council – Aid to Small Universities ($8000)
Co-investigator with Dr. Jamie Murton. This grant funds the establishment of a research network on Vernacular, Community and Rural Studies including a publishing series with McGill-Queen’s Press.

2009 Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences – Aid to Scholarly Publications Program ($8000)
Aid to Scholarly Publications (ASP) grant for my book Managed Annihilation (UBC Press, 2010). The ASP Program provides funding to help authors and academic presses publish scholarly works that make a significant original contribution to knowledge in the humanities and social sciences in Canada.

2009 Nipissing University – Start Up Research Grant ($5000)
My SURG is being used to establish an international Research Network in Subsistence Studies. This involves hosting an international workshop, applying for external research funding, and establishing a publication series with McGill-Queen’s University Press in collaboration with Canadian and International colleagues.

2009 Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) – Workshop Grant ($3500)
Funding for an international workshop entitled: Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows- An Environmental History Workshop on Subsistence Relationships, Oct. 2-4th, 2009. Participants presented new ways to understand the complex means by which humans have procured their subsistence and began to establish the historical groundwork for reanimating the concept of subsistence today, as the necessary corollary of attempts to rethink and modify contemporary relationships between humans and nature.

2005 – 2008 School of Natural Resources and Environment – Postdoctoral Researcher ($200,000)
Funded by the Michigan Society of Fellows and SSHRC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

My postdoctoral research focused on critically exploring the history of, and articulating alternatives to, managerial approaches to human and non-human environments. When, why and how human and natural resources become constituted as manageable objects comprised my primary research focus. I specialized in fisheries and marine management and the history of attempts to domesticate marine environments both conceptually, through various resource management models, regulations and laws; and materially, through the development of various forms of aquaculture. I undertook comparative global fisheries and aquaculture research with multidisciplinary colleagues at the University of Michigan, Memorial University, Penn State, and the University of Tromso in Norway. Textual analysis, archival research, participant observation of fisheries management and aquaculture industry meetings, and key informant interviews in Newfoundland, the United States and Norway comprised the methods applied in this project.

2001 – 2005 Coasts Under Stress Research Project – Doctoral Researcher ($5000)
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL., & University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Conducted interdisciplinary research on the environmental history and philosophy of fisheries management, the development and sustainability of marine aquaculture, local ecological knowledge, and wetland stewardship policy in Newfoundland & Labrador. The methods that comprised my research included: archival research on cod fisheries management; field research on cod biology; and key informant interviews and participant observation in Gilbert’s Bay, Labrador; as well as in various communities on the West Coast, Northern and Avalon Peninsulas of Newfoundland.

2002 – 2003 AquaNet Research Project – Aquaculture Network Researcher ($35,000)
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

Co-authored a successful research grant and conducted archival, participant observation and key informant interview research on marine aquaculture development, sustainability, policy and management in British Columbia and Newfoundland & Labrador with Professor Scott Slocombe. Presented findings to AquaNet’s annual research conference.

2001 Ponderosa Pine Ecological Restoration Project ($6000)
Program in Community, Culture & the Environment, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

Conducted collaborative research with humanists, social and natural scientists on ponderosa pine ecological restoration on the Southern Colorado Plateau. This involved conducting key informant interviews, values mapping, preparing environmental education materials and field visits to ponderosa pine forests on the plateau, including the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

Research Assistantships

1999 – 2001 Geography and Environmental Studies Department, Wilfrid Laurier University
Edited a national ecological newsletter, planned national conference panels and conducted research into Canadian ecosystem management projects.

1996 Eco-Research Project, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Assisted Dr. Barbara Neis and Dr. Lawrence Felt with multidisciplinary research involving the transcription of fish harvester’s traditional ecological knowledge.

1995- Environmental Studies Resource Centre, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
1996 Assisted undergraduate students with honours theses and research projects.

Publications: Books

Bavington, D. 2010. Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. Nature, History, Society Series. (Ed. Graeme Wynn). University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC. pp.186 

Murton, J., Bavington, D., and Dokis, C. (Eds.) 2011. Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: Subsistence, Nature and Economy in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Rural, Wildland and Resources Studies Series. McGill-Queen’s Press. Montreal. P.Q. (in preparation)

Publications: Refereed Journal Articles

Bavington, D. 2010. From Hunting Fish to Managing Populations: Fisheries Science and the Destruction of Newfoundland Cod Fisheries. Science as Culture. 19(4):509-528.

Bavington, D. and Samuel, S. 2010. Energy and Equity in World Fisheries. International Journal of Illich Studies. 2(1): 55-64.

Bavington, D. 2009. Managing to Endanger: Creating Manageable Cod Fisheries in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. MAST-Maritime Studies. 7(2):97-117

Petter-Johnsen, J., Holm, P., Sinclair, P. and Bavington, D. 2009. The Cyborgization of the Fisheries:
On Attempts to Make Fisheries Management Possible. MAST-Maritime Studies 7(2): 9-34

Roach, C., Hollis, T., McLaren, B., Bavington, D. 2006. Ducks, Bogs, and Guns: A Case Study of Stewardship Ethics in Newfoundland. Ethics and the Environment. 11(1):43-70

Bavington, D., Grzetic, B. and Neis, B. 2004. The Feminist Political Ecology of Fishing Down: Reflections from Newfoundland and Labrador. Studies in Political Economy. 73:159-182.

Bavington, D. and Slocombe, S. (Eds). 2002/2003. Managerial Ecology: Contestation and Critique, & Counterproposals. Environments. 30(3):1-78; 31(1):1-116.

Bavington, D. 2002. Managerial Ecology and Its Discontents: Exploring the Complexities of Control, Careful Use and Coping in Resource and Environmental Management. Environments 30(3):3-21.

Bavington, D. 2001. From Jigging to Farming. Alternatives. 27(4):16-21.

Bavington, D., Garside, N. and Miller, L. (The Lumpen Society). 1997. The End of Community? Forms, Process, Pattern. IN. Research In Community Sociology: Environment and Community Empowerment. Ed. Dan Chekki. Vol.VII.(p.21-59) JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.

Bavington, D. and Bondrup-Neilson, S. 1996. The Dilemma of Conservation Biology: Domination vs. Respect for Nature. Ambio. 25(8):532-533.

Bavington, D. 1996. Biology as Religion: Genetic Code as Bible, Scientist as Priest, and Genetic Counselling as the Confessional. Undercurrents. 7(1):33-38.

Samuel, S. and Bavington, D. 2011. Fishy Biomass. IN. Finding Animals. ED. Joan Landes, Columbia University Press: New York, New York. (Forthcoming).

McLaren, B., Hollis, T., Roach, C., Blanchard, K., Chaurette, E. and Bavington, D. 2008. Knowledge Flows, Conservation Values and Municipal Wetlands Stewardship. IN. Making and Moving Knowledge. EDS. J. Lutz and B. Neis. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montreal, PQ.

Bavington, D. and Kay, J. 2007. Ecosystem-Based Insights on Northwest Atlantic Fisheries in an Age of Globalization. IN. Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. EDS. M. Schechter, W. Taylor and L. Wolfson. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Pp.331-363.

Waltner-Toews, D., Noronha, L. and Bavington, D. 2006. Science and society in place-based communities: uncomfortable partners. IN. Interfaces Between Science and Society. EDS. Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz and Sylvia Tognetti, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy. Greenleaf Publishing: Sheffield. Pp. 265-281.

Wroblewski, J., Volpe, J. and Bavington, D. 2006. Manufacturing fish: Transition from wild harvest to aquaculture. IN. Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment. EDS. Peter Sinclair and Rosemary Ommer. ISER Press: St. John’s, NL. Pp.145-160.

Bavington, D. 2005. Homo Administrator: Managing a Needy Nature?. IN. Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Critical Essays in Environmental Philosophy. ED. Thomas Heyd. Columbia University Press: New York. Pp.155-176.

Murray, G., Bavington, D. and Neis, B. 2005. Local Ecological Knowledge, Science, Participation and Fisheries Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Complex, Contested and Changing Relationship. IN. Participation in Fisheries Governance. ED. Tim Gray. Kluwer Academic Press: London, UK. Pp.269-290.

Roach, C., McLaren, B., Hollis, T., and Bavington, D. 2002. Auditing Municipal Wetlands Stewardship in Newfoundland: A Report Outlining How to Conduct an Audit. Report commissioned by the Dept. of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation of the Newfoundland provincial government, in partnership with Wildlife Habitat Canada and Memorial University of Newfoundland. St. John’s: NL.

Bavington, D. 2000. From Hunting to Farming: Exploring the Development of Industrial Aquaculture in Newfoundland and Labrador from a Complex Systems Perspective. Awarded the Canadian Policy Graduate Research Award. Federal Policy Research Initiative. Ottawa: ON.

Bavington, D. 1998. The Iatrogenic Effects of Environmental Management: Servicing a Needy Nature? Faculty of Environmental Studies Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series. 4(1). York University, North York, ON.

Bavington, D. and Afridi, H. 1998. Draft Sustainable Tourism Act for the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) SPCS Unit Publications. Peshawar, Pakistan.

Bavington, D and Malik, I. 1998. Involvement of the Private Sector and Civil Society in Conservation and Sustainable Development in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) SPCS Unit Publications. Peshawar, Pakistan.

Bavington, D. 1995. Conservation: Restoring a Partnership With Nature. In. Conservation Biology. Eds. Basquill, S and Bondrup-Neilsen, S. Centre for Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.

Bavington, D. 1995. Summary of Species Monitoring. In. Conservation Biology. Eds. Basquill, S and Bondrup-Neilsen, S. Centre for Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.

Book Reviews, Editorials, Entries, Interviews & Published Commentaries

Bavington, D. 2011. Ocean Battleground: Reviews of A. Haig-Brown, “Still Fishin’: The B.C. Fishing Industry Revisited” and N. Young and R. Matthews, “The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy and Contested Science.” Literary Review of Canada. Vol. 19(2): 26-7

Bavington, D. 2010 (Nov. 30th). Interviewed by John Furlong for The Fisheries Broadcast on cod science and fisheries management. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Accessible at: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/index.html?region#nlfisheries

Bavington, D. 2010 (Sept. 5th). Interviewed by Karen Wells for The Sunday Edition on fish forecasting and the record Sockeye salmon run in 2010. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Accessible at: http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/2010/09/september-5-2010.html

Bavington, D. 2010. Fish Farming. IN. Encyclopedia of Geography. ED. Barney Warf. Sage Publications:
London. Vol.3:1119-1121

Cayley, D. (Ed.). 2009. Science Manages the Sea (Interview with Dean Bavington). IDEAS on the Nature of Science. Goose Lane Editions: Fredericton, NB. Pp.238-256.

Bavington, D. 2009 (April 10th). Interviewed by Darrin Simms for “Knowing Cod Fish” in The Northern Pen. St. Anthony, NL.

Bavington, D. 2009. (May 10th). Interviewed by Karen Green for “Fish Stocking Study” in The Muskoka News. Magnetewan, ON.

Bavington, D. 2008 (March 5th). Interviewed by David Cayley for “How To Think About Science—Dean Bavington, Part 13 of 24” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ideas. Accessible at: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2009/01/02/how-to-think-about-science-part-1—24-listen/#episode13

Bavington, D. 2008. Review of Daud Hassan. “Protecting the Marine Environment from Land-Based Sources of Pollution: Toward Effective International Cooperation.” Environmental Politics. 17(3): 510-12.

Bavington, D. 2006. Invited Letter: ‘Competing Claims on Cod’. Alternatives. 32(1):7.

Winsor, F. and Bavington, D. (Fisheries Recovery Action Committee). 2004. South Coast Cod Stocks in Danger. The Evening Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. February 29:A7.

Bavington, D. 2001. Editorial—Sea Monster Stories. Rhizome. 11(1):2-3.

Bavington, D. 2001. Review of Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx. “Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment.” Environments 29(1): 143-45.

Bavington, D. 2000. Review of D. Torgerson “The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere.” Rhizome, 9(2):16-17.

Bavington, D. 2000. Review of W. Sachs. “Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development.” Environments. 28(2):93-94.

Bavington, D. 2000. Review of K. Hayles “How We Became Post-Human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.” Rhizome, 9(1):19-20.

Bavington, D. 2000. Review of T. Hueglin “Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althusius on Community and Federalism.” Alternatives. 26(4):52-53.

Bavington, D. 1999. Review of J. Schnurr and S. Holtz, “The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and Economic Policies” and D. Morales-Gomez, “Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization.” Environments, 27(2):97-102.

University Teaching Experience

Course Directorships

2008- Associate Professor, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental History
present Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario

Primary Instruction

Directed Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology – HIST 4015 (S/S 10)

This fourth year seminar explored histories and philosophies of science and technology by reading interviews and central texts by figures in the field of science studies. The course used material from the CBC Radio IDEAS series, “How to Think About Science” as well as several book-length treatments by authors interviewed by David Cayley in the series. The central questions explored included: What is science? When did science come into being and how has it changed? What are the ecological and social consequences of scientific knowing becoming hegemonic?

Global Environmental History – Imperial and Subsistence Perspectives – HIST 3275 (F/W 09/10)

The course was divided between imperial and subsistence perspectives on global environmental history. The emphasis was placed on the environmental consequences of British and American Empires and the forms of life that have been influenced by imperial ambition. Every two weeks we examined environmental histories of imperial colonizers and the colonized people, plants and animals that were affected by these actions. We also explored global environmental history from the perspective of subsistence as an alternative to imperial commodity production for the market. The significance of imperial and subsistence perspectives to contemporary environmental issues was examined throughout the course and students were invited to critically assess both perspectives and their relevance for today.

Canadian Environmental History Seminar – HIST-5117 (W 09)

This graduate seminar explored topics in Canadian environmental history. Topics included the development of the oil industry in Canada from the first well to the booming Alberta oils sands; Forest and landscape histories from BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia; The history of Great Lakes fisheries as well as the rise and fall of the Atlantic cod and Pacific salmon fisheries. First Nation histories associated with the development of hydro-electric power in Quebec, hunting for subsistence and sport in the North, and the many cultural and environmental implications of the construction of military installations in Canada during the cold war complimented and linked together histories raised in the first half of the seminar.

Special Topics in Environmental History: Managerial Ecologies – HIST 3276 (F 08)

A third year special topics seminar exploring the historical and philosophical evolution of the idea of management, paying particular attention to how broad developments in ecological science, political economy, and environmental ethics influenced the effectiveness and legitimacy of managerial interventions into natural resource and environmental issues with examples drawn from around the world.

Co-Instruction

Perspectives on Survival –Graduate HIST 5506 (F 09)

This special topics graduate seminar examined some of the major themes in the history of human and non-human survival in environmental, political and intellectual history.

2005 – 2008 Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Primary Instruction

Managerial Ecology – Graduate NRE 639.030 (Winter 2006)

Developed and taught a unique graduate seminar that critically explored the idea of “management,” as expressed in the fields of natural resources and environmental studies. The seminar traced the historical and philosophical evolution of the idea of management, paying particular attention to how broad developments in ecological science, political economy, and environmental ethics influenced the effectiveness and legitimacy of managerial interventions into natural resource and environmental issues with examples drawn from around the world.

Directed Research & Readings – Graduate NRE 600.030 (Winter 2006/07/08; Fall 2007)

Advised and developed independent reading courses for graduate students on a variety of topics including: environmental history, philosophies of ecology, environmental justice, and conservation policy.

Co-Instruction

Program in the Environment Honours Seminar – Undergraduate NRE 399/499 (Winter 2007 & 2008)

This honours seminar focused on interdisciplinary methodology and research design in environmental studies. Throughout the semester, I assisted honours students with the preparation of research proposals, the selection of thesis advisors, research methods, and the development of thesis research, writing and presentation skills.

Environmental Integrated Assessment – Graduate Course NRE 580 (Winter 2007 & 2008)

This course focused on the topic of integrated environmental assessment. I taught the history of marine fisheries management using the Newfoundland & Labrador cod fishery as an illustrative case.

Conservation Biology – Graduate Seminar NRE 639 (Winter 2007)

This graduate seminar on conservation biology was co-taught by two senior natural scientists. My lectures focused on marine biodiversity and contributions from the social sciences and humanities in biodiversity policy research.

2002 – 2003 Lecturer – Environmental Thought (GG298)
Geography & Environmental Studies Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

Developed and taught the first environmental humanities course in the Department of Geography and Environmental studies. The course introduced undergraduate environmental studies majors to environmental history, ethics and philosophy and applied insights from these fields to contemporary socio-ecological issues.

Students Supervised

Post-Doctoral

Dec. 2008-10 Dr. Bruce Erickson (Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation PDF)
Leisure Landscape as Anachronistic Space: The French River Heritage River System
Nipissing University Environmental History Research Lab. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON.

Sept. 2010-12 Dr. Carly Dokis (Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada PDF)
After the Hearings: Politics, Development, and Participatory Management in the Sahtu
Nipissing University Environmental History Research Lab. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON.

Doctoral

2008-13 Ted Lawrence
Lake Victoria’s Changing Fisheries Governance: Beach Management Units & Beyond
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Comprehensive Exam & Dissertation Committee Member)

2008-13 Jennifer Johnson
The Environmental History of Nile Perch Fisheries in the Great Lakes Region
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Comprehensive Exam & Dissertation Committee Member)

2009-14 Shaw Lacy
Ground Water Pumping and the Protection of Fish Habitat in the State of Michigan. School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
(Comprehensive Exam & Dissertation Committee Member)

2010 Dr. Cesar Ortiz-Guerrero
A Region in Transition: The Role of Networks, Capitals and Conflicts in the Rainy River District, Ontario.
Doctoral Thesis. Planning Department. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. (Served as External Examiner)

Masters

2006-08 Jennifer Johnson
Of Darwin’s Dreams & Nightmares: The Concealed Violence of a Global Whitefish Commodity
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Thesis Supervisor)

2008-10 Zachary Caple
Landscape in the Interaction Order
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Thesis Supervisor)

2009-10 Michael del Vecchio
Surviving Fisheries Management: Angling, Aquaculture, and Lake Ahmic
Department of History. Nipissing University. North Bay, Ont. (Thesis Supervisor)

2009-10 Kyle Charlebois
May Tea?: The Construction of the Métis Self and Identity in 20thCentury Ontario
Department of History. Nipissing University. North Bay, Ont. (Thesis Supervisor)

2009-10 Morgann Rymal
Surviving Genocidal Rape: Women’s Experiences of the Rwandan Genocide
Department of History. Nipissing University. North Bay, Ont. (Thesis Co-Supervisor)

Undergraduate (Honours Thesis)

2007-08 Anne Rosinski
Implementing Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) for the Protection of Endangered Cetacean Species: A Case Study of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Thesis Supervisor)

2007-09 Jennifer Demoss
Wilderness Survival Education in America: Histories, Reflections, and Practical Applications Within the Modern Environmental Movement
School of Natural Resources & Environment. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (Thesis Co-Supervisor)

Research Assistant Training and Mentoring

Graduate

2008-13 Jennifer Johnson (Lake Victoria/International Fish Stocking & Aquaculture)

2008-09 Dustin Wall (Icelandic Fisheries & Environmental History)

2009-10 Michael del Vecchio (Lake Ahmic, Ontario Fish Stocking & Aquaculture)

2009-11 Nancy Pottery (Nipissing First Nation Fisheries & Aquaculture)

2009-10 Kyle Charlebois (Ontario Métis Identity & Fisheries)

2010-11 Greg Richardson (Canadian Fish Stocking & Aquaculture GIS)

2010-11 Morgann Rymal (Environmental History Lab-Digital Archives)

2010-11 Ian Laplante (Environmental History & Violence Research)

Undergraduate

2009-11 Margaret Jackson (Environmental History Lab-Digital Archives)

2010-11 Kim Demers (CURA: Homelessness, Poverty & Outmigration in Northern Ontario)

2010-11 David Pottery (CURA: Homelessness, Poverty & Outmigration in Northern Ontario)

2010-11 Chris Dobson (Ontario Fisheries Research with Trout Unlimited)

2010-11 Greg Kirton (Canadian Fish Stocking & Aquaculture GIS)

2010-11 Joseph Beverley (Environmental History of Moose in Gros Morne, National Park, NL)

2010-11 Alexandra Hamelin (Environmental History of Moose in Gros Morne, National Park, NL)

2010-11 Devan Grainger (Environmental History Lab-Digital Archives)

Presentations

Bavington, D. 2010. The Skeptical Fisherman. Invited Speaker for the Coastal Matter’s Speakers Series. ACAP Humber Arm. Corner Brook, NL. (Nov. 30).

Bavington, D. 2010. Fisheries Policy and Management: A Critical History. Environmental Studies Honours Seminar. Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NL. (Nov. 29).

Bavington, D. 2010. Cod Fishing Cultures in Newfoundland & Labrador. Invited Plenary Speaker for the Association for Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada, Cape Breton University: Sydney, NS. (August 19).

Bavington, D. 2010. Icelandic Fisheries by Anna Karlsdottir (Discussant). Time and a Place: Environmental histories, Environmental futures, and Prince Edward Island. Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI. (June 16).

Bavington, D. 2010. Hunting in the Shadows, Subsisting at the Margins? On the Holism of Subsistence Hunting in the Modern Day (Discussant). Canadian Anthropology Society. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ. (June 3).

Bavington, D. 2010. Ropes, Reins & Roundpens: A historical review of managerial relations with nature through the lens of horse training. Society for Socialist Studies. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ. (June 2).

Bavington, D. 2010. Fishing, Farming and the Blue Revolution: An Aqua-Cultural History of Newfoundland & Labrador Cod Fisheries. Canadian Historical Association. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ. (June 1).

Bavington, D. 2010. Neoliberalism and the Blue Revolution: An Aqua-Cultural History of Canada’s Atlantic Cod Fisheries. Environmental Histories of the Neoliberal Present: Managerial, Recreational & Political Ecologies (Session organizer with six papers). A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism. Lund University. Lund, Sweden (May 8).

Bavington, D. 2010. Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. Invited lecture for the Nature/History/Society Group. University of British Columbia. Vancouver B.C. (March 22nd).

Bavington, D. 2010. Research is a Social Activity. Concluding remarks at the Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON. (April 5th)

Bavington, D. and Murton, J. 2009. Taking Subsistence out of the Shadows: An Introduction. Subsistence Studies Workshop. Nipissing University, North Bay, ON. (October 3rd).

Bavington, D. 2009. Energy and Equity in Newfoundland & Labrador Cod Fisheries: Cultural, social, and biophysical thresholds and the explosion of energy use in fisheries. Canadian Historical Association. Ottawa, Ontario. (May 25th).

Bavington, D. and Samuel, S. 2009. The Resurrection of Cod: From wild species to industrialized biomass. Finding Animals: Toward a Comparative History & Theory of Animals. Penn State University, State College, PA. (April 30).

Bavington, D. 2009. What is Research? Keynote address to the Second Annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Nipissing University. North Bay, Ont.

Bavington, D. 2009. Energy, Equity and Natural Thresholds in Fisheries. American Environmental History Association, Tallahassee, Florida. (February 26).

Bavington, D. 2008. Marine Fish Farming and the Blue Revolution: Aqua-Cultural Studies of the Sea. Invited presentation to the Nipissing University Research Lunch. Nipissing University. North Bay, Ontario. (November 10).

Bavington, D. 2008. From Hunting Fish to Managing Populations: Maximum Sustainable Yield, Domestication and the Destruction of the Newfoundland Cod Fisheries. Invited paper for the German Historical Institute’s conference on Aggregation and Governmentality in the History of Sustainability. Washington, D.C. (October 9-11).

Bavington, D. 2007. Fishing Tools versus Fishing Systems: Cod Must be Hungry to Go for Bait. Invited presentation to Conviviality in the Age of Systems: Homage to Ivan Illich in Cuernavaca. Cuernavaca, Mexico. (December 5th)

Bavington, D. 2007. Cod Must be Hungry to go for Bait: On the sensuousness of fishing with baited hook and line. Presented at Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-Than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment. York University, Toronto, ON. (October 26th).

Bavington, D. 2007. The Death and Artificial Resurrection of Cod: From wild species to industrial farm animal. Presentation to the Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, P.Q., (October 12th)

Bavington, D. 2007. Professionally Husbanded & Harvested from Egg-to-Plate: Fisheries Managerialism and the Blue Revolution in Newfoundland & Labrador Cod Fisheries. Presented at the People and the Sea conference. International Centre for Maritime Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (July 6th).

Bavington, D. 2007. Marine Fish Farming and the Blue Revolution: Why We Need AgriCultural Studies of the Sea. Presented to the “Why We Need AgriCultural Studies” special session at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). Portland State University. Portland, Oregon. (April 20th).

Bavington, D. and Samuel, S. 2007. Harvestable Biomass and Swimming Inventories: the scientific transformation of codfish. Invited presentation to the Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (STeMS)
Winter 2007 Speaker Series, University of Michigan, Ann Abror, MI. (Febuary 5th).

Bavington, D. 2006. With Proper Management this Species Can Make a Complete Recovery. Invited lecture to the Michigan Society of Fellows. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (October 18th).

Bavington, D. 2006. Domesticating Cod, Domestication People: Emerging aquacultures in post-moratorium Newfoundland & Labrador. Presented to The Country and the City Revisited: Environmental Cultural Studies and Urban/Rural Transformations at the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. York University, Toronto, Ont. (May 31st).

Bavington, D. 2006. Managing Cod, Managing People: Managerial Ecology in Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries. Invited presentation to the Ph.D.-Faculty Seminar Series. School of Natural Resources and Environment. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (March 17th).

Bavington, D. 2006. From Managing Cod to Managing People: A Critical Exploration of Managerial Ecology in the Newfoundland & Labrador Cod Fisheries since the 1992 Moratorium Crisis. Presented in the Relations of Rule: (Post)colonialism, nature, governmentality session at the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL. (March 9th)

Bavington, D. 2003. Control, Careful Use and Coping: On the relationship between management, science and place-based communities. Presented at the Interfaces Between Science and Society: Collecting experience for good practice. Milan, Italy (Nov. 28th).

Bavington, D. 2003. Gilbert’s Bay Proposed Marine Protected Area: Socio-Ecological Considerations. Invited presentation to the Newfoundland & Labrador Natural History Society and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). Marine Institute, St. John’s, NL. (Oct. 21st).

Slocombe, D.S. & Bavington, D. 2003. Complexity, Context and Aquaculture Sustainability in Canada: Practice, Policy, and Process Implications. Presented at the AquaNet Annual Research Conference. Vancouver, BC. (Oct. 28th).

Bavington, D. & Kay, J. 2003. Fisheries Systems in an Age of Globalization: Ecosystem-Based Insights on Monitoring, Management and Governance Challenges. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Québec City, PQ. (Aug. 12th).

Bavington, D. & Samuel, S. 2003. How can we think beyond management when exploring the collapse of the Northern cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador? Critical Management Studies Conference. Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K. (July 9th).

Bavington, D. & Slocombe D.S. 2003. Exploring Aquaculture Sustainability: Insights from the Ecosystem and Complex Systems Perspectives. Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. (June 1st).

Slocombe, D.S., S. Janetos, & Bavington, D. 2003. Aquaculture and integrated resource planning and management: issues and approaches. Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. (June 1st).

Bavington, D. 2003. Cod Aquaculture as a Restoration Tool for an Endangered Species. Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. St. John’s, NL. (May 7th).

Bavington, D. 2003. Complex Systems Thinking, Sustainability and Natural Resource Management with Specific Reference to Cod Fisheries Management in Newfoundland and Labrador. Workshop on The Georgia Basin Futures Project. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. (April 3rd).

Bavington, D. 2003. Wild Cod Grow Out as an Enhancement Tool for 2J3KL Cod Stocks. Fisheries Resource Conservation Council Public Meeting on 2003/2004 Conservation Requirements for 2J3KL Cod Stocks. St. John’s, NL. (February 12th).

Bavington, D. 2003. Hatchery-Based Verses Wild Cod Grow Out for Wild Stock Enhancement. Newfoundland and Labrador All-Party Committee on the 2J3KL and 3Pn4RS Cod Fisheries. St. John’s, NL. (February 6th).

Bavington, D. and Slocombe, S. 2002. Exploring Aquaculture Sustainability in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador: Comparative Insights Using the Ecosystem Approach and Complex Systems Theory. Presented at the AquaNet Annual Research Conference. Moncton, NB. (September 16th).

Janetos, S., Slocombe, S. and Bavington, D. 2002. Integrated Planning and Management for Aquaculture Sustainability: Challenges and lessons. Poster Presentation at the AquaNet Annual Research Conference. Moncton, NB. (September 16th).

Bavington, D. 2002. Managerial Ecology, Politics and Ethics: Exploring the Complexities of Coping and Control. Presented at the Third International Critical Geography Conference. Békéscsaba, Hungary. (June 27th).

Bavington, D. 2002. The Creation of an Aqua Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador: Fish farming, the idea of marine wilderness and the incarceration of coastal wildness. Presented at Playing the Wild Card: Un/Disciplined Thoughts on Wild(er)ness. Banff, AB. (May 9th).

Bavington, D. 2002. Managerial Ecology, Politics and Ethics: Exploring the Complexities of Control, Coping and Careful Use. Presented at the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. (May 29th).

Bavington, D. 2002. Fishing and Aquaculture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Panel discussant at the Coasts Under Stress Research Network Meeting. Memorial University, St. John’s, NL. (April 12th).

Bavington, D. 2002. Managerial Ecology, Politics and Ethics: Exploring the Complexities of Control, Coping and Consent in Culture-Nature Relations. Presented at Ecology, Theology and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. (February 23rd).

Bavington, D. 2001. The Creation of an Aqua Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador: Moving Toward One Dimensional Cod and Culture? Presented at Imagining a Region: Constructing and Deconstructing Atlantic Canada. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS. (August 25th).

Bavington, D. 2001. From Jigging to Farming: Exploring the Development of Industrial Aquaculture in Newfoundland and Labrador from a Complex Systems Perspective. Presented to the Canadian Association of Geographers Conference. McGill University, Montreal, PQ. (June 3rd).

Bavington, D. 2001. Knowledge as Power/Knowledge as Understanding. Roundtable speaker at the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Laval University, Quebec City, PQ. (May 28th).

Bavington, D. 2000. From Abundance to Scarcity: The Newfoundland Cod Fishery. Presentation to the Canadian Studies Group. University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. (December 7th).

Bavington, D. 2000. Beyond Managerial Ecology: From Creating Dependencies on Control to Encouraging Self-Organizing Capacity. Presented to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. (May 28th).

Oelschlaeger, M.; Taylor, E.; Bavington, D. 1999. Corporatism, the Procedural Republic, Strong Democracy and the Ecosystem Approach: More of the Same? Or a New Departure? Co-presented at the Environmental Communications Conference University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ. (July 27th).

Bavington, D. 1999. A Capable or Needy West? From Citizens to Clients and Back Again. Presented at The New West Conference. University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ. (June 12th).

Bavington, D. 1998. Canada’s Youth Employment Strategy, International Internships and the Public Good. Panel presentation to the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development at the Congress of Learned Societies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. (June 2nd).

Bavington, D. 1998. Environmental Management: Translating Diversity Into Codes. Presented to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. (June 1st).

Bavington, D. 1997. Innovative Financial Incentives as a Tool to Promote Sustainability. Presentation to the Sustainable Industrial Development Roundtable. IUCN SPCS Unit, Peshawar, Pakistan. (December 23rd).

Bavington, D. 1997. The Iatrogenic Effects of Environmental Management: Servicing a Needy Nature? Presented to the symposium on Ethics and Environmental Change: Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature. Memorial University, St. John’s, NL. (June 1st).

Bavington, D., Garside, N. and Miller, L. 1997. The End of Community? Co-presented to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Memorial University, St. John’s, NL. (June 2st).

Service Activities

2010-11 Conference Advisory Committee Member. Nature™ Inc? Questioning the Market Panacea in Environmental Policy and Conservation. Institute of Social Studies. The Hague, Netherlands. (June 30 – July 2, 2011)

2010-11 Graduate Advisor. History Program. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON

2010-11 Advisory Board Member & Sponsor. Ice Follies: Ecological art instalment on lake Nipissing used to question and re-imagine historical relationships with the lake. Kennedy Gallery. North Bay, ON

2010 Invited Speaker. Closing Remarks. Undergraduate Research Conference. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON

2010 Co-sponsor. The Art of Resistance juried group art exhibition. Department of Gender Equality & Social Justice and WKP Kennedy Gallery. North Bay, ON (March 4-11)

2009-present Member. Nipissing First Nation and Nipissing University Collaborative Research Committee. Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives. Nipissing University, North Bay, ON

2009-present Organizer and Participant. Environmental Reading & Discussion Group. Environmental History Research Lab. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON

2009-present Co-organizer. Cinema Politica: Documentary Film Series. Nipissing University, North Bay, ON

2009-present Sponsor and Organizer. Environmental History Speaker Series (Kristjan Ahronson, Glenn Tunnock, Bruce Erickson)

2009-present Council Member. Nipissing University Research Council. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON

2009-present External Evaluator. Canada Research Chairs Program. Ottawa, ON.

2009-present External Reviewer. The African Studies Review. Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts. Amherst MA.

2009 Co-sponsor and Participant. Mapping Alternative Economies an art-based workshop with Tyler Rebecca Pearce. Department of Gender Equality & Social Justice. WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON. (March 4)

2009 Co-organizer, Sponsor and Facilitator. Taking Subsistence out of the Shadows Workshop. Kennedy Gallery & Nipissing University, North Bay, ON (Academic conference and community panel)

2009 Participant and Sponsor. (Arranged logistics and accompanied 6 MA Students and 5 Faculty Members to the 14th Annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium. Wanapitei Chateau, Lake Temagami, ON. (September 24 – 27)

2008-present Hiring Committee Member: Forest Bioproducts Research Chair, Canada Research Chair in Hydrology, Human Geography Position (Selection of Interview Candidates). Nipissing University, North Bay, ON

2008-present Member. Nipissing University Faculty Association. Collective Bargaining Committee & CAUT Strike Preparedness Representative. North Bay, ON

2007-08 External Reviewer. Columbia University Press. New York, NY.

2007-08 External Reviewer. The Canadian Geographer. Vancouver, BC.

2006 Fulbright Campus Review Committee Member. Assisted in the selection of Michigan Graduate students for the US International Fulbright Program. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2006 Distinguished Dissertation Award Selection Committee. Assisted in the selection of dissertation awards for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2005-06 Michigan Society of Fellows Selection Committee. Assisted in selecting postdoctoral
fellows for 2006-2009 & 2007-2010 tenure. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2004 Planning Committee Member. Carolyn Merchant, Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer for Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL.

2003 External Reviewer. Alternatives Journal. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

2002-03 Guest Editor. Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Vol. 30(3)-31(1).
2002 Conference Organizer. Special Session on Managerial Ecology. Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Social Science and Humanities Congress, Toronto, ON.

2001-02 Newsletter Editor. Rhizome—The Official Newsletter of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.
1999-present Editorial Member. The Journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Toronto, ON.

1999-00 Committee Member. University of Waterloo-Laurier Joint Program in Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

1996-97 Editorial Board Member. Undercurrents: Environmental Studies Graduate Student Journal, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON.

Scholarships & Fellowships

Sept. 2005- Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship
Aug. 2008 Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Jan. 2006- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jan. 2008 Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa, ON.

May 2003- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
April 2004 Government of Ontario Student Awards, Toronto, ON.

May 2000- SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship
April 2003 Canadian Social Science & Humanities Research Council, Ottawa, ON.

May 2000- Wilfrid Laurier Doctoral Scholarship
April 2002 Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

May 2000- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (awarded but declined)
April 2001 Government of Ontario Student Awards, Toronto, ON.

May 2000- Canada-US Fulbright Scholarship
Dec. 2000 University of California—Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management Department, Berkeley, CA. (with Professor Carolyn Merchant)

Jan. 1999- Organization of American States PRA Fellowship
Aug. 1999 Northern Arizona University, Program in Community, Culture & Environment,
Flagstaff, AZ. (with Professor Max Oelschlaeger)

Aug. 1998- Celanese Canada Internationalist Scholarship
Dec. 1998 Canadian Bureau for International Education, Ottawa, ON.

Honours & Awards

July 2008- Canada Research Chair in Environmental History (Tier II). Canada Research Chairs
2013 Program, Ottawa, ON.

Oct. 2005 Graduate Gold Medal (awarded to best overall dissertation, all disciplines)
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

Oct. 2005 Governor General of Canada’s Academic Gold Medal (highest graduate marks).
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

Nov. 2000 Canadian Policy Research Award (graduate prize).
Canadian Policy Research Secretariat, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON.

Aug. 1997 Environmental Studies Occasional Paper Series (thesis award)
Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto, ON.

Sept. 1994 Dean’s List Scholar
Faculty of Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.

Memberships & Affiliations

2010-present Canadian Anthropology Society. Member.
2010-present American Anthropology Association. Member.
2010-present Society for Socialist Studies. Member.
2008-present Canadian Historical Association. Member.
2007-present Society for the History, Philos. & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Member.
2006-present Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE). Member.
2006-present Environmental History of Modern Aquaculture-Joint Research Project. Member.
2005-present Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Member.
2005-present American Society for Environmental History. Member.
2003-present American Fisheries Society (AFS). Member.
2003-present American Association of Geographers (AAG). Member.
2003-present Fisheries Recovery Action Committee (FRAC). Founding Member.
2002-present International Critical Geography Group (ICGG). Member.
1999-present Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). Member.
1997-present Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC). Member.

Short Courses, Workshops and Continuing Education

2010 Developing Relationships: Research Opportunities, Community Engagement and Aboriginal Communities. Nipissing University. North Bay, ON. April 20.

2006 Michigan “Road” Scholars. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. USA. May 1-5.
Faculty research tour of Michigan communities, research institutes, civic and private sector organizations.

2004 University of Portland. Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar, Portland, OR, USA. June 5-23. Doctoral writing seminar: “The Cultural Context of Environmental Issues: Past, Present and Future.”

2000 University of California—Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, USA. May-December.
Doctoral course work as part of a Canada-US Fulbright scholarship.

2000 University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. August 2000.
Completed a graduate short course entitled “GIS and Public Policy.”

2000 University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. July.
Completed a graduate course entitled “Land and Community” taught by Wes Jackson.

1999 University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. June.
Completed a graduate course entitled: “Sustainability & Ecological Economics” taught by John Cobb.

1999 University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. January-August.
Studied ecosystem management, ecological restoration and sustainability issues as part of an Organization of American States research fellowship.

1998 Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy & Environment, Wuppertal, Germany. December. Studied international sustainable development and ecological management issues with Wolfgang Sachs.

1998 Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon, U.K. October-November.
Completed a graduate course entitled “Deep Ecology and Gaia” taught by Arne Naess.

1997 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Peshawar, Pakistan. October. Completed a course on “Sustainable Mountain Tourism for Local Community Development.”

1996- York University, Centre for Excellence in Teaching, Toronto, ON.
1997 Completed a graduate training course on “University Teaching Methods.”

1995 McGill University, Montreal, PQ. August.
Completed short course on “Ecosystem Health Research.”