Curriculum Vitae - Dartmouth College
Curriculum Vitae - Dartmouth College
Curriculum Vitae - Dartmouth College
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KENNETH MICHAEL BAUER <br />
95 Stowell Road, Norwich, Vermont 05055 USA <br />
kenneth.bauer@dartmouth.edu <br />
802.299.6671 <br />
Education <br />
D.Phil. International Development, University of Oxford (2002-‐2009) <br />
Thesis: “Land Use, Common Property, and Development among Pastoralists in Tibet” <br />
M.Sc. Rangeland Management, University of California-‐Berkeley (1997-‐1999) <br />
Thesis: “Stewards of the Land: Rangeland Management in Dolpo, West Nepal” <br />
B.A. History, Brown University (1988-‐1992) <br />
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude <br />
Academic Appointments <br />
Lecturer, Institute of Writing & Rhetoric, <strong>Dartmouth</strong> <strong>College</strong> (2011-‐present) <br />
I teach writing courses on environment and development issues, with a regional focus on Asia <br />
and thematic interests in state-‐society relations, biodiversity conservation, and climate <br />
change. <br />
Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School (2012) <br />
I served as a faculty instructor for the Leadership Development Education for Sustained Peace <br />
(LDESP) program. LDESP briefs enlisted soldiers and reservists on the politics, culture, and <br />
history of the regions to which they are deploying. <br />
Research Specialist in Ethnobotany, Missouri Botanical Garden (2010-‐2011) <br />
I conducted ecological and anthropological fieldwork to monitor biodiversity and climate <br />
change in alpine areas of Bhutan, Nepal, and China as part of the international GLORIA <br />
(www.gloria.ac.at) network. With local collaborators, I elicited indigenous perspectives on <br />
climate change in search of local adaptations with the potential for replication. <br />
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brandeis University (2009-‐2010) <br />
I taught graduate students in the Sustainable International Development Program at the Heller <br />
School for Social Policy and Management. <br />
Research Associate, Rangeland Enclosure on the Tibetan Plateau, Oxford University (2007-‐2010) <br />
This collaborative project investigated the impacts of enclosure across the Tibetan Plateau in <br />
China. Funded by the European Commission, our multi-‐national and multi-‐disciplinary team <br />
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examined the effects of fencing on livestock productivity, wildlife, vegetation, and the socio-economic<br />
situation of pastoralists. <br />
Assistant Professor, University of Vermont (2007-‐2009) <br />
I taught community development, social entrepreneurship, marketing, and research methods <br />
in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics. <br />
Project Coordinator, Digital Himalaya Project, Cornell University (2004-‐2005) <br />
I managed a team of anthropologists and computer programmers building an Internet portal <br />
for research on the Himalayas and Tibet including images, interactive maps, and census data, <br />
www.digitalhimalaya.com. <br />
International Development and Community Planning Positions <br />
President, DROKPA (1998-‐present) <br />
DROKPA is a 501c3 non-‐profit organization that partners with communities in the Himalayas <br />
and Central Asia to catalyze social entrepreneurship and implement grassroots development <br />
projects focusing on alternative energy, education, and community health. <br />
Consultant, Climate & Development Knowledge Network, UN University (2012-‐present) <br />
I led a team of Nepali and international researchers that conducted a case study investigating <br />
loss and damages resulting from changes in climate in southeastern Nepal. We are now <br />
producing policy recommendations and academic publications based on this research. <br />
Consultant, ARD, Inc. (2009-‐present) <br />
I am advising a USAID-‐funded community forestry project in Liberia, including the drafting of <br />
training manuals and curricula for the national Forestry Training Institute. I was also a senior <br />
member of the ARD team that evaluated USAID-‐funded projects in Tibetan areas of China. <br />
Consultant, Winrock International (2009-‐2010) <br />
I wrote grants, trained staff, planned project implementation, and provided monitoring and <br />
evaluation services for Winrock’s USAID-‐funded projects in Tibetan areas of China. <br />
Consultant, The Poverty Alleviation Fund (2007, 2008) <br />
I monitored TPAF’s rural development projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region (PRC) and <br />
evaluated their micro-‐credit loans, resource management training, and capacity building <br />
programs. <br />
Ecologist, Planning Corporation (1999-‐2002) <br />
I consulted on mitigation and restoration of development-‐related activities in southern <br />
California including wetland permitting, environmental impact assessments, endangered <br />
species monitoring. <br />
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Consultant, World Wildlife Fund Nepal Program (1994-‐1996) <br />
I planned and implemented a community forestry project in the buffer zone of Mt. Everest <br />
National Park, as well as wrote grants, drafted management plans for Nepal’s conservation <br />
agencies, edited a conservation monograph series, and mapped project sites. <br />
Publications <br />
Books and Monographs <br />
[in preparation] Bauer, Kenneth, Sienna Craig. Medicine in the Mountains: Engaging in <br />
Health-‐Development Work in Asia's High Altitude Regions. University Press of New England. <br />
Under contract, manuscript due summer 2013. <br />
2011. Bauer, Kenneth, Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, Andrew Fischer, eds. Development <br />
Transitions: Land, Labor and Social Policy in Tibet. Kathmandu: Himal Books. <br />
2004. High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists. Columbia <br />
University Press. <br />
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles <br />
[in preparation] “New homes, new lives: The impacts of resettlement on Tibetan nomads in <br />
Qinghai Province, PRC.” For submission to Journal of Peasant Studies. <br />
[under review] Sayre, Nathan, Kenneth Bauer, Maria Fernandez-‐Gimenez. “Pastoral land <br />
tenure in transition: Paradoxes of property rights in comparative perspective.” Submitted to <br />
Annals of the Association of American Geographers. <br />
2012. Salick, Jan, Anja Byg, Kenneth Bauer. “Contemporary Tibetan Cosmology of Climate <br />
Change.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6(4): 447-‐476. <br />
2011. Bauer, Kenneth, Yonten Nyima. “Laws and Regulations Impacting the Enclosure <br />
Movement on the Tibetan Plateau of China.” Himalaya 30(1-‐2): 23-‐ 37. <br />
2011. Bauer, Kenneth, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer. “Development in Tibet: Land, Labor and <br />
Social Policy in a Context of Rapid Transition.” Himalaya 30(1-‐2): 1-‐7. <br />
2011. “Training Women for Success: An Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Training Programs in <br />
Vermont, USA.” Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 14: 1-‐24. <br />
2010. Bauer, Kenneth, Antoni Magri. “The Herder's Environment: A GIS Case Study of <br />
Resource Use Patterns Among Pastoralists in Central Tibet.” Journal of Land Use Science. 28 <br />
July, pp. 1-‐12. <br />
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2010. Wang, Qingbin, Kenneth Bauer, Kathleen Liang. “Toward a multidisciplinary <br />
entrepreneurship education.” International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development. <br />
2(1/2): 84-‐95. <br />
2009. “On the Politics and the Possibilities of Participatory Mapping and GIS: Using Spatial <br />
Technologies to Study Common Property and Land Use Change Among Pastoralists in Central <br />
Tibet.” Cultural Geographies 16: 229-‐252. <br />
2008. Bauer, Kenneth, Geoff Childs. “Demographics, Development, and the Environment in <br />
Tibetan Areas.” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 4:1-‐8. <br />
2006. “Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and <br />
Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet.” Journal of Political <br />
Ecology 13: 24-‐47. <br />
2005. “Pastoral Development and the Enclosure Movement in the Tibet Autonomous Region <br />
since the 1980s.” Nomadic Peoples 9: 85-‐115. <br />
Chapters and Edited Volumes <br />
2011. “Social, Political, Economic, and Environmental Change Amidst Development in Tibetan <br />
Areas.” Co-‐editor for Special Issue of Himalaya. <br />
2008. Jonathan Davies, Maryam Niamir-‐Fuller, Carol Kerven, Kenneth Bauer. “Extensive <br />
Livestock Production in Transition: The Future of Sustainable Pastoralism.” In Livestock in a <br />
Changing Landscape: Drivers, Consequences and Responses. Washington: Island Press. <br />
Fellowships, Research Grants, and Awards <br />
2011 Research Fellowship, Trace Foundation <br />
2007-‐2008 University of Vermont: International Incentive Grant, Women’s Center Grant, <br />
Service Learning Implementation Grant, Asian Studies Program Faculty Grant <br />
2007 Junior Scholar Award, Anthropology and Environment Section of the American <br />
Association of Anthropology <br />
2002-‐2006 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation <br />
2002-‐2005 Clarendon Fund Bursary, University of Oxford <br />
2003-‐2004 Research Fellowship, Wenner-‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research <br />
1997-‐1999 Regent’s Fellowship, University of California-‐Berkeley <br />
1996-‐1997 Fulbright Fellowship, Nepal <br />
Selected Invited Presentations (Last three years) <br />
2013 “How trade has changed along the Tibetan border” Himalayan Impasse Conference, <br />
Bonn University, 1/29 <br />
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2012 “Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists” South Asia Research <br />
Seminar, Yale University, 9/28 <br />
“New Homes, New Lives: The effects of resettlement on Tibetan nomads in Qinghai <br />
Province, China.” School of Environment, University of Auckland, 2/29 <br />
2011 “Local perceptions of climate change among agro-‐pastoralists in the Himalaya (Yunnan <br />
Province, PRC)” Environment, Livelihoods, and Culture in the Himalayas conference, <br />
Yale University, 5/11. <br />
2011 “The Enclosure Movement in Tibet: How Fencing is Transforming the Human and <br />
Political Ecology of Western China.” AMES Program, <strong>Dartmouth</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 2/24. <br />
2010 “Social, Political, Economic, and Environmental Change Amidst Development in <br />
Tibetan Areas." 12 th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, <br />
University of British-‐Columbia, Vancouver, 8/15. <br />
Courses Taught <br />
<strong>Dartmouth</strong> <strong>College</strong> <br />
• Indigenous Knowledge and Development (WRIT 5-‐1, W13) <br />
• Journeys in Shangri La: Accounts of Exploration and Encounter (WRIT 5-‐2, W13) <br />
• Environment and Development in Tibet and the Himalaya (GEOG 80, S12) <br />
• Environment and Development in Contemporary China (AMES 7, S11 + WRIT 7, F11) <br />
• Nomads from Central Asia to the Middle East: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives <br />
(AMES 40.02, S13) <br />
Brandeis University <br />
• Sustainable International Development <br />
• Indigenous Knowledge and Development <br />
University of Vermont <br />
• Sustainable Community Development <br />
• Applied Research Methods <br />
• Issues in International Development <br />
• Social Marketing <br />
School for International Training <br />
• Environmental Issues in International Development <br />
Services to the Profession <br />
Journals <br />
Reviewer, Development and Change, International Journal of Ecology & Development, <br />
Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Community Development Journal, Himalaya <br />
Co-‐editor, Nomadic Peoples (2007-‐2009) <br />
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Professional Associations <br />
International Committee, Society for Range Management <br />
International Association of Tibetan Studies <br />
American Association of Anthropology <br />
American Association of Geographers <br />
Society for Applied Anthropology <br />
Languages <br />
Nepali (fluent), Tibetan (fluent), German (fluent) <br />
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