Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist received her Bachelor’s from Haverford College in sociology, and her Ph.D. from Boston University, also in sociology with a specialization in life sciences and society. She taught in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech for 22 years and has recently retired. Her work focuses on the extinction crisis and loss of wild places, pathways to halt these trends, and inquiries surrounding humanity’s relationship with the planet. She is coeditor of a number of books, including Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis and Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth. She has written numerous academic papers as well popular writings, and is Associate Editor of the ecocentric online journal The Ecological Citizen. Her most recent book, Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2019. For more information and publications, visit her website www.eileencrist.com