WRITING
SUNY Press Blog: What is the Tree to a Philosopher?
What is the Tree to a Philosopher? is a short blog post about trees on the SUNY Press website.
The Wisdom of Trees Now Published!
The volume, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality, edited by David Macauley and Laura Pustarfi, is now available from SUNY Press.
In The Company Of The Forest
This short, imaginative piece was written for the International Trees Foundation for their Trees Journal Issue 78. I am thrilled to support this organization protecting trees in the United Kingdom and Africa.
Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place
This paper was part of a panel at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, delivered on October 10, 2020.
Arboreality: Revisioning Trees in the Western Paradigm
A sample of my completed dissertation, Arboreality: Revisioning Trees in the Western Paradigm, is available to view on ProQuest.
Future Human-Tree Relationships
This talk was part of a panel at the World-Ecology Research Network Conference 2019, delivered on May 31, 2019.
Arboreality Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Video of my Ph.D. dissertation defense presentation. Filmed on Feb. 28, 2019.
Arboreality: Revisioning Trees in the Western Paradigm Abstract
Trees are pervasive phenomena. Our arboreal neighbors are both larger and older than humans with a dramatically different expression of livingness. Trees are intertwined with imaginative, mythological, social, and economic systems across cultures and throughout history.