Peder Anker
Associate Professor of History of Science and Environmental Studies; Associate Professor of Environmental StudiesPh.D. 1999 (History of Science), Harvard University; M.A. 1998 (History of Science), Harvard University; M.A. 1993 (Philosophy), University of Oslo; B.A. 1991 (Environmental Philosophy), University of Oslo.
Office Address: Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place, Room 425 New York, NY 10003
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Phone: 212-998-7389
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Areas of Research/Interest:
History of Ecology, History of Environmental Sciences, Ecological Architecture and Design, as well as History of Philosophy.
Publications
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Books
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design, Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945, Harvard University Press, 2001.
Papers
"Seeing Pink: The Eco-Art of Simon Starling," Journal of Visual Art Practice 7 (2008), 3-9.
"Deep Ecology in Bucharest," Trumpeter 24 (2008), 56-58.
"Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway," History of Science, 45:4 (2007), 455-479.
"Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth," Minerva, 45:4 (2007), 417-434.
"Graphic Language: Herbert Bayer’s Environmental Design," Environmental History, 12:2 (2007), 254-279.
"The Closed World of Ecological Architecture," The Journal of Architecture, 10:5 (2005), 527-552.
"The Bauhaus of Nature," Modernism/Modernity, 12:2 (2005), 229-251.
"The Ecological Colonization of Space," Environmental History, 10:2 (2005), 239-268.
"A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes," Philosophy and Geography, 7:2 (2004), 261-266.
"The Economy of Nature in the Botany of Nehemiah Grew," Archives of Natural History, 31:2 (2004), 191-207.
"The Politics of Ecology in South Africa on the Radical Left," Journal of the History of Biology, 37:2 (2004), 303-331.
"The Philosopher’s Cabin and the Household of Nature," Ethics, Place and Environment, 6:2 (2003), 131-141.
"The Context of Ecosystem Theory," Ecosystems, 5:7 (2002), 611-613.
"The Dream of the Biocentric community and the Structure of Utopias," with Nina Witoszek, Worldviews, 2 (1998), 239-256.
