CSU Team Launches Online Support Tool for African Forests August 28, 2023 Joshua Zaffos This June, a NASA-funded team of CSU researchers, including University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and CSU Africa Center Director Kathleen Galvin, traveled to Kenya to unveil a new interactive, online tool to help land managers and foresters working in Kenyan and […]
Galvin Wins University Distinguished Professor Award Award recognizes 30-plus-year career integrating anthropology and conservation and serving CSU May 23, 2022 Josh Zaffos A pioneer in interdisciplinary anthropological research, Dr. Kathleen Galvin has been recognized as a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Galvin, who has been faculty since 1994 and received her Anthropology bachelor’s […]
Indigenous People Vital for Understanding Environmental Change Research led by Kathleen Galvin and others shows how local knowledge can help manage ecosystems and wildlife Todd Bates, Rutgers University Additional content by Joshua Zaffos Grassroots knowledge from Indigenous people can help to map and monitor ecological changes and improve scientific studies, according to new research published […]
As appearing in SOURCE | September 15, 2016 CSU professor of anthropology Kathleen Galvin has been named as a lead author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Galvin, director of The Africa Center in CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability, was nominated by the U.S. […]
The Africa Center, directed by Dr. Kathleen Galvin, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at CSU, participated in the newly-signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the government of Rwanda for a Smart Village Minigrid. The purpose of the minigrid is to provide electricity to 70% of the Rwandan population by 2018, compared to 20% of the […]
The final report of the American Anthropological Association’s Global Climate Change Task Force concluded that human decisions, actions, and cultural behaviors are now the most important causes of the rapidly changing climate. “We’re not going to solve our environmental problems until we incorporate the social sciences, because it starts with people,” said Dr. Kathleen Galvin, […]
Kathleen Galvin held an international workshop January 28-31, 2015 on Dryland Collaborative Institutions and Innovative Transformations to Sustainability. A group of academics, scholars, managers and practitioners of dryland collaboratives from Mongolia, Kenya and the US met to ‘discover, dream, design and deliver’ research for a Knowledge Network to address natural resource problems in rangelands. Collaboratives/conservancies constitute […]
As appearing in The Denver Post | 10.20.14 Vectra Bank CEO, three others named Nature Conservancy trustees Longtime Vectra Bank CEO Bruce Alexander is one of four new trustees of The Nature Conservancy in Colorado. The nonprofit conservation group said Kathleen Galvin, who directs a research program in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at […]
Dr. Chris Fisher and Dr. Kathleen Galvin on The Hadza: Last of the First panel discussion with Alyssa Crittenden and Bill Benenson about the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. “The Hadza: Last of the First” intro and panel dicussion from October 7, 2014 from SoGES Colorado State University on Vimeo.
Transformations to Sustainability project funded to Kathleen Galvin, Anthropology The International Social Science Council (ISSC) has awarded Kathleen Galvin (Anthropology, SoGES), a Transformations to Sustainability grant of € 30,000 for 6 months to develop a Transformative Knowledge Network on the World’s Rangelands through Social Change. Galvin and her team will bring together researchers and practitioners […]
