Meet ENVX contributor Frances Swanson! Below you’ll find a brief bio, class level, and a digital scholarship (DS) site link, where you can read more about their work at Lewis & Clark College. Below this information are all ENVX posts featuring this contributor to date; click on any post title to view the full post. To return to all contributors, click here.
Class of 2017 | DS websiteI have had a deep interest in the world of environmental studies for as long as I can remember; environmental activism and policy are particularly intriguing to me. My engagement in these fields began in the non-academic world, yet I aim to explore these issues more deeply with an academic mindset. |
Here at L&C, the Environmental Studies Program stays as hip as possible to current trends in academia, which has meant putting a particular emphasis on developing and honing digital scholarship skills. That is to say, we are encouraged to display our work on websites that we create in ways that are both accessible and engaging to the public. Over their f … |
Any student who has taken an environmental studies course at Lewis & Clark can attest that we love to discuss the different dimensions associated with each specific place. Whether we are studying abroad or doing research here in Portland, we aim to complicate our understanding of the place by bringing in various dimensions of scale and (often opposing) v … |
Environmental studies students at Lewis & Clark do a lot of explaining of ourselves and our work as participants in a nontraditional interdisciplinary program, one which I must often reiterate is not environmental science (although we do take breadth courses in the natural sciences). Defining, elaborating, complicating are all activities which we are tra … |