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Max Oelschlaeger, Ph.D., is the Frances B. McAllister Endowed Chair in Community, Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University, and Director of NAU’s Program in Community, Culture, and Environment. His teaching employs interdisciplinary approaches to the public humanities, ecological restoration and conservation, and sustainability studies.
Max’s research focuses on the interface of ethical belief with environmental policy, wilderness and public land issues, sustainability and bioregional analysis, and the human dimensions of the policy making process and public policy itself.
Recent books include The Idea of Wilderness (Yale UP), Caring for Creation (Yale UP), and Texas Land Ethics (Texas UP) with Pete A. Y. Gunter. Recent articles have been published in Conservation Biology, Environmental Ethics, Ecumene, and Sign System Studies. He is presently working on three book manuscripts, one concerning wildfire in western forests, one concerning policy reforms for western public lands, and one concerning ecology and rationality.
Max is a board member of Arizona Humanities Council, Friends of Flagstaff’s Future, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, International Society for Environmental Ethics, Arizona Wilderness Coalition, and Environmental Ethics, Inc.
Avocations include flying, day-hiking, and astronomy. His wife Mary is also an NAU faculty member, and his son is a software engineer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Last updated july 7, 2006.
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