Christopher Coggins Bard College, USA

Chris Coggins is professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Open Society University Network).  He is the co-editor and co-author (with Bixia Chen) of Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (Routledge/Earthscan, 2022), and the co-author/co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction.  He has published numerous refereed articles and chapters in geography, environment, and Asia-related books and journals. In 2019, he was selected to serve as one of fourteen scholars in Asian Studies on the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau. He is currently co-authoring/co-editing Fengshuilin: Village Fengshui Forests and Ecological Transformation in Southern China (with Bixia Chen, Jesse Minor, and Ian M. Miller).