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Courtney Carothers University of Washington |
| Ph.C. | University of Washington, Anthropology, Expected Ph.D. (Spring 2008) |
| M.A. |
University of Washington, Anthropology (2004) |
| B.A. |
Cornell University, Biology and Society, summ cum laude (2000) |
Curriculum Vitae (updated 02/2008)
Research interests: political ecology, sociocultural change in resource dependent communities, science and technology studies, fisheries management, environmental policy, contemporary Alutiiq communities
Current Research
Dissertation Title: Placing Community: Privatization and Social
Change in Alaska Native Fishing Villages
My dissertation research explores how restricting and privatizing fishing access rights has affected Alutiiq fishing villages on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Within just one generation, participation in commercial fishing in these communities has dropped by over 50%. Villages are currently in a state of transition; while some fishing families fight for political redistribution of fishing rights, others look to a future that for the first time doesn't include a fishing way of life. I situate my study of social change in Alaskan fishing villages in a larger political economic trend of resource access privatization. This widespread privatization trend is fundamentally altering resource dependent communities and rural livelihoods.
Research & Writing Support
• Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D.
Fellowship, Morris K. Udall Foundation
(2007-2008); Fellowship supports academic and living expenses for
the final year of dissertation writing.
• Wenner-Gren Foundation
for Anthropological Research Individual Research Grant (2005-2006)
• National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant
(2005-2006)
• Washington Sea Grant College Program, Research Grant (2005)
Courses
ANTH 210: Introduction
to Environmental Anthropology
Selected Publications
• Carothers, C. (In press). “Rationalized out:” Discourses and realities of fisheries privatization in Kodiak, Alasksa. In Lowe, M. and C. Carothers (editors). Community Impacts of Fisheries Privatization. American Fisheries Society Press.
• Carothers, C. (2007). Impacts of halibut IFQs and changing Kodiak communities. In Cullenberg, Paula (editor) Harvesting the Future: Alaska’s Fishing Communities, Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, AK.
• Carothers, C.,
D. Lew, and J. Sepez. (Submitted). Fishing rights and small communities:
Alaska halibut quota transfer patterns. Ocean and Coastal Management.
• Carothers, C. and J. Sepez. (In preparation).
Commercial fishing crew demographics of the North Pacific. North
American Journal of Fisheries Management. Summary
poster
• Pimentel D., R. Doughty, C.
Carothers, S. Lamberson, N. Bora, and K. Lee. (2003) Energy
inputs in crop production in developing and developed countries. In
Food Security & Environmental Quality in the Developing World, Lal,R.,
D. Hansen, N. Uphoff, and S. Slack, CRC Press.