Scholarship - Great Barrier Island Research Grant
Who is Janel Curry?
Janel Curry is Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Geography at Calvin College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Curry has held numerous leadership positions in the area of rural geography, including being chair of the board of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and chair of the Rural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Curry has published on the topic of community and natural resources in journals such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Geographic Review, Agriculture and Human Values, and Society and Natural Resources.
*Visit New Zealand virtually through the lens of Dr. Curry's camera.
Publications
Curry, Janel M. “Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary.” Secularity and Globalization: What Comes After Modernity? edited by James K.A. Smith, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming.
________. 2007. “The Nature-Culture Boundary and Oceans’ Policy: Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.” The Geographical Review 97(1): forthcoming.
________. 2006. “Contested Ocean Spaces: Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.” Focus on Geography 48(4):25-30.
________. 2006. “Ocean Fisheries, Boundaries and God’s Perichoretic Love.” The Other Journal.com: An Intersection of Theology and Culture Issue 8, Earth to Christians. www.theotherjournal.com
________. 2003. “Environmental Care: A Vision of community and Land.” Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice 11(2): 11-14.
________. 2003. “A Vision of Community and Land.” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly No. 20 (Winter): 12-13.
Lectures
"Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary."Geography Department Seminar, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 27, 2007.
"Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary." Lecture for Geography and Religion, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, Tuesday, April 3, 2007.
"Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary." Dordt College, Monday, February 26, 2007
"Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary." Areopagus Lecture, Iowa State University, February 28, 2007.
"Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary." Presented as part of a series, Negotiating Boundaries (Natural and Not). November 3, 2006, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada.
"The Problem of Boundaries." Keynote Address, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Annual Departmental Research Symposium, April 16, 2004.
"The Problem of Boundaries." Xiamen University, Department of Philosophy Seminar, Xiamen, China, May 21, 2004.
"Northern Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: Local Perspectives on Nature and Policy." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 15, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
"Perceptions of New Zealand Marine Resource." Presented at the Joint Meeting East Lakes and West Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers, October 17, 2003 (with student, Mammie Hutchful).
"New Zealand: Land of Contrasts." Presented at Seattle Pacific University, January 24, 2003.
"Environmental Care: A Vision of Community and Land." Victoria University Anglican Chaplaincy, The Christian Mind Series, Wellington, New Zealand, November 21, 2002.