Meet ENVX editor Jim Proctor! Below you’ll find a brief bio, class level, and a digital scholarship (DS) site link, where you can view this Environmental Studies major’s own work. Below this information are all ENVX posts authored by the editor to date; cick on any post title to view the full post.
Class of N/A | DS websiteI'm Professor and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. My scholarship over the years has addressed ideas of nature, science, and religion, environmental theory, and new learning technologies. I also help run an educational nonprofit on land I own in rural Oregon, do weekly podcasts of songs I've written over the years, and co-teach a karate PE class on campus as a totally different way to engage with our students! |
 We are proud of all nineteen graduating ENVS seniors this year: they were a great bunch of students to work with over the last four years, and grew tremendously during this time. We’d like to honor four graduating seniors in particular—Lex Shapiro, Jesse Simpson, Hannah Smay, and Drew Williamson—who successfully completed all requirements for honors in envir … |
 Drew Williamson’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Constructing a World-Class Tramway System: Building Identity through Innovative Urbanism in the ‘Glocal’ City of Strasbourg, France,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Drew’s thesis abstract: In this essay, I explore the city of Strasbourg, France and efforts the city has made to boost its standing … |
 Hannah Smay’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Unsettling Dreams: Investigating Crisis in Earthquake Fiction from Japan and the Pacific Northwest,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Hannah’s thesis abstract: Like many scholars in the humanities, I ask what art and stories can offer a world unsettled by change. For the environmental studies, unsettli … |
 Jesse Simpson’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Planning Gentrification: Municipal Policy & Price Effects of the Orange Line in Portland, OR,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Jesse’s thesis abstract: The mission of creating more environmentally-friendly and socially-equitable cities is critical; recognition of this need has increasingly infor … |
 Lex Shapiro’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Pluralizing Paradigms: Rights of Mother Earth in the Plurinational State of Bolivia,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Lex’s thesis abstract: In this project, I examine the complex relationships between humans and the environment in a context where legal rights are extended to recognize pluralism withi … |
 There’s a new course in the ENVS major effective spring 2017: it’s called Environmental Engagement (ENVS 295)—read the About page on our new site, ds.lclark.edu/envs295/, for an overview. When I reflected at the start of spring semester on what environmental engagement means, I looked at the etymology of engagement to suggest three key features: Here is one … |