Assistant University
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Steven E. Silvern, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
Salem State University
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E-mail: abqk3q@r.postjobfree.com
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Associate Professor Fall 2007- present
Department of Geography, Salem State University
(see course list below)
Assistant Professor Fall 2002-Spring 2007
Department of Geography, Salem State College
Courses: Introduction to Geography
Weather and Climate Laboratory
World Regions (also On-Line)
Cultural Geography
Geography of Global Change
Economic Geography
Geography of Latin America
Sustainable Development
Geography of the United States (also On-Line)
Political Geography
Geographic Research
Population Geography
Native American Environments
Geography of the Middle East
Visiting Assistant Professor 2001-2002
Department of Earth and Environment, Mt. Holyoke College
Courses: World Regional Geography
Native American Lands and Environments
Globalization: Geographies of Global Change
Environmental Justice
Research Officer, First Nations Development Institute, Fredericksburg, VA Summer 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies Program, 1998-1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses: Introduction to American Indian Studies
American Indian Geographies
Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1995-1998
Courses (4-5 per semester):
World Regional Geography (4-5 classes per year)
Latin America Fall 1995, 1996, 1997
Cultural Geography Fall 1995; Spring 1996, 1997, 1998
Research Methods Spring 1996, 1997, 1998
Recreation and Tourism Spring 1996, 1997
American Indian Geographies Spring 1998
Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses: Cultural Geography Fall 1992, Fall 1993, Fall 1994
Urban Geography Summer 1993
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses: World Regional Geography 1988-1990
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana
Courses: Geography of Developing Countries 1985-1986
Introduction to Urban Geography 1984-1985
PUBLICATIONS
Sustainable Development; Native Hunting and Fishing Rights; Chippewa: The Encyclopedia of
Native Peoples, Ed. Stephen Danvers, ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming July 2012
Young, S.S. and S. Silvern (eds.) International Perspectives on Global Environmental Change, InTech
Open Access Publisher. ISBN 979-953-307-109-0, 2012
Global Climate Change On-Line Learning Module, AAG On-Line Center for Global Geography
Education. With Chew Hung and Colin Arrowsmith. Available at:
http://globalgeography.aag.org/GlobalClimateChange1e/index.html 2010
Native American Protest, Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History
Immanuel Ness and Geoffroy de Laforcade, General Editors, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
2009: 2411-2421.
Negotiating Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Towards a critical geopolitics of state-tribal relations, special
Issue on Indigenous Geographies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 32. October
2008.
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Lester P. Voigt, Treaties with
American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty, (ed) Donald Fixico ABC-
CLIO, 2008.
Reserved Rights Doctrine, Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and
Sovereignty, (ed) Donald Fixico ABC-CLIO, 2008.
Indian Harvesting Practices in the Midwest, The American Mid-West, Indiana University Press, 2006.
State-Centrism, the Equal Footing Doctrine and the Historical Legal-Geographies of American Indian
Treaty Rights, Historical Geography, Fall 2002 (30): 33-58.
States, Tribes, the EPA and the Territorial Politics of Environmental Protection. In States and Tribes,
(eds.) Brad Bays and Erin Fouberg. Lamham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
Reclaiming the Reservation: The Geopolitics of Wisconsin Anishinaabe Natural Resource Rights,
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2000 (24): 131-153.
Progress in Forest Resource Management on Native American Indian Reservations, Native Assets
Research Center Research Report #1, (Fredericksburg, VA: First Nations Development Institute),
Summer 2000.
"Scales of Justice: Law, American Indian Treaty Rights and the Political Construction of Scale,
Political Geography 1999 (18): 639-668.
"The Geography of Ojibwe Treaty Rights in Northern Wisconsin." In Wisconsin Land and Life,
(eds.) Robert Ostergren and Thomas Vale. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
"Nature, Territory and Identity in the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Controversy." Ecumene. 1995(2): 267-
292.
PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION AND UNDER REVIEW
Realigning Indigenous Territories: the Historical Geography of Native American Lands and
Environments in North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century:
(eds.) Craig Colten and Geoffrey Buckley, Rowman and Littlefield, to be submitted August 2012.
Paranoid Nationalism and the Geographical Imaginings of the Modern Anti-Indian Movement in
the United States. In preparation, to be submitted to Political Geography (planned September 2012).
Food, Place and Identity in the New Jewish Food Movement. In preparation, to be submitted to AJS
Review (planned Dec. 2012).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES (The Northeastern Geographer: Annual Journal of the New England-St. Lawrence
Valley Geographical Society (A division of the Association of American
Geographers)
Executive Editor, The Northeastern Geographer, Vol. 3-5 (2011- ), Journal of the New England-St.
Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (NESTVAL-AAG). Annual Peer Reviewed Journal.
Co-Editor (Lead), The Northeastern Geographer, Vol 1-2. (2009-2010), Journal of the New England-St.
Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (NESTVAL-AAG). Annual Peer Reviewed Journal.
BOOK REVIEWS
Regulating Eden: The Nature Of Order in North American Parks. Joe Hermer. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, Political Geography, 26 (5), p.620-622, June 2007.
From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems. Richard J. Perry. Austin: University
of Texas Press, Professional Geographer. (1999) 51: 324-325.
The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and The Rise of Indian Activism, Troy
R. Johnson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Professional Geographer. (1998) 50: 273-274
"Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature," ed. William Cronon. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company. Geographical Review. (1996) 86: 613-616.
"Protectors of the Land and Water: Environmentalism in Wisconsin, 1961-1968," Thomas R. Huffman.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. The Michigan Historical Review, (1996) 22: 204-205.
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2012 The New Jewish Food Movement: Identity, Agriculture and the Construction of American Jewish
Identity in the 21st Century, Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico:
October 24-26, 2012.
2012 Mapping the Massachusetts Food System: Preliminary Results, with Milan Budhathoki (graduate
research assistant). Poster Presentation, Faculty and Graduate Student Research Day, Salem
State University, May 3, 2012.
2012 The Alternative Food Movement and the Changing Agri-Food Geography of Massachusetts, 1985-
2011. With Milan Budhathoki (graduate research assistant). Poster Presentation, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY. February 2012
2010 Local Food, Local Farms: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Sustainability, Meeting
of the International Geographical Union Congress, Tel Aviv, Israel; July 2010
2009 The Global Climate Change Module of the Center for Global Geography Education Project,
105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV. March 22-
27, 2009. (with Colin Arrowsmith)
2008 Paranoid Nationalism and the Geographical Imaginings of the Modern Anti-Indian Movement in
the United States. 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston,
MA. April 14-19, 2008.
Discussant, Indigenous Peoples and Tourism Panel, 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of
2008
American Geographers, Boston, MA. April 14-19, 2008.
Collaborative Teaching and Learning in Introductory Geography Courses, Annual Meeting of the
2007
New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, New Haven, CT. Nov. 2-4, 2007
2007 Decolonizing American Indian Geographies. Presidential Plenary Session (invited speaker).
Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Long Beach, CA. October 19,
2007.
2006 The Geographical Imagination of the Anti-Indigenous Sovereignty Movement in the United States.
Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference III (2006), San Marcos, Texas. Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2006
2005 American Indians and the Negotiation of Places of Memory in New England: A Study of
Plimoth Plantation and Historic Deerfield. Annual Meeting of the New England-St. Lawrence
Valley Geographical Society, Keene, NH. Sept. 30-October 2, 2005. (Session Chair)
We were always here : American Indians and the Politics of Places of Memory 100th Annual
2004
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA (Chair and organizer of
session)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (continued)
Place Names and the Politics of Indigenous Identities. 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of
2002
American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA. (Chair and organizer of session)
2001 Squaw: Place Names and Carto-Controversy in New England. Annual Meeting of the New
England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, New Bedford, MA. October 19-20,
2001.
2001 Re-bounding the Reservation: The Politics of Defining American Indian Homelands. New
England American Studies Conference, April 27-29, 2001, University of New Hampshire-
Manchester. (Refereed)
American Indians and the Politics of Environmental Protection Law, 97th Annual Meeting of the
2001
Association of American Geographers, New York, NY.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court and The Legal Geography of American Indian Resource Rights.
96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA.
1999 Reclaiming a Homeland: The Geopolitics of Anishinaabeg Resource Use and Management,
Anishinaabeg of the Great Lakes Region: Symposium on History, Culture, and Contemporary
Issues, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, September 28-October 1, 1999. (Refereed)
1998 Understanding American Indian Treaty Rights Conflicts: The Ideology of Sportsmanship and The
Equal Footing Doctrine. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, St. Paul.
MN. (Refereed)
1998 American Indian Treaty Rights and the Political Construction of Scale.
94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
1997 Spatial Ideologies and the Politics of Wisconsin Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Negotiating State-Tribal
Relations. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX.
1997 Putting Nature in its Place: Territorial Identity and State Opposition to Ojibwe Treaty Rights.
Biennial Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Baltimore, MD.
(Refereed)
1996 Wisconsin's Anti-Treaty Rights Groups.
50th Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Geographical Society, Oshkosh, WI.
1996 Territorializing Nature: Wildlife and the Spatial Imagination of Wisconsin's Anti-Treaty Rights
Groups. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC.
1995 Treaty Rights, Co-Management and the Protection of Northern Wisconsin's Natural Resources.
91st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL.
1994 Contested Sovereignty: State Reactions to Wisconsin Chippewa Treaty Rights.
90th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
1993 Nature, Territory, and Rhetoric in the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Controversy.
89th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA.
PRESENTATIONS SALEM STATE COLLEGE/SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
2012 Europe and Sustainable Development, Massachusetts Geographic Alliance and the Northeast
Global Education Center, Conference for Middle School Teachers March 31, 2012
2011 Sustainability and Food, Massachusetts Geographic Alliance and the Northeast Global
Education Center, Conference for Middle School Teachers, April 2, 2011.
2010 Territorial Nationalism and the Conflict over Israel/Palestine, Massachusetts Geographic
Alliance and the Northeast Global Education Center, Conference for Middle School Teachers,
March 2, 2010
2008 America s Carbon Footprint, Massachusetts Geographic Alliance and the Northeast Global
Education Center Conference for Middle School Teachers, Dec. 13, 2008.
2008 Introduction to Wikis, Center for Teaching Innovation Workshop, Salem State College,
May 1, 2008
2008 Regional Conflict and Global Impacts: Conflict in Subsaharan Africa, Massachusetts
Geographic Alliance and the Northeast Global Education Center, Conference for Middle School
Teachers, March 29, 2008
2008 Regional Conflict and Global Impacts: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Massachusetts
Geographic Alliance and the Northeast Global Education Center Conference for Middle School
Teachers, January 26, 2008.
2007 Impacts of Global Warming and Human-Induced Global Climate, Northeast Global Education
Center Conference for Middle School Teachers, January 27, 2007
2006 Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Crossroads Conversations: Interdisciplinary
Discussions about Critical Concepts (Globalization), November 30, 2006.
2006 Integrating Laptops into an Introductory World Regions Course, Laptop Boot Camp
June 12, 2006.
2006 Laptops and Wikis in World Regional Geography, The Future is Now, 3.0. May 17, 2006
2006 Using the Internet in Teaching World Regional Geography, Massachusetts Geographical Alliance
and the Northeast Global Education Center Conference for Middle School Teachers, May 6,
2006
INVITED LECTURES AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
2012 Introduction to Food Geographies. Explorers: Lifelong Institute of Salem State University
Salem, MA. May 3, 2012.
2012 Climate Change. Explorers: Lifelong Institute of Salem State University, Salem, MA, April 26,
2012
2011 History and Geography of Israel. Explorers: Lifelong Institute of Salem State University, Salem,
MA July 18, 2011.
2011 Geography and the Study of American Immigration History. Teaching American History
Program. University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell MA. July 6, 2011.
2009 Geography and American History. Teaching American History, Program, Hampshire
Educational Collaborative. June 25-July 28, 2009. Presented workshops on how to incorporate
geography in K-12 Social Studies and History Curriculum.
2009 Geography of Conflict: Israel/Palestine. Explorers Lifelong Learning Institute
of Salem State College, Salem, MA. May 7, 2009.
1999 Indigenous People and the Politics of Nature and Identity. Studies in Landscape Architecture
Roundtable Symposium on The Social Uses of Nature and Identity Construction, Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D.C. March 13, 1999.
1999 Law, Space and the Politics of State-Tribal Relations in Upper Midwest. American Indian Studies
Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. February 24, 1999.
1997 The Geopolitics of American Indian Treaty Rights. Dean s Symposium. College of Letters and
Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI.
1997 Geographical Approaches to American Indian Natural Resources.
Undergraduate Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1997 Indigenous Peoples of Latin America. Contemporary International Issues, International
Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2011 Salem State University (Graduate School) Research Assistant (10 hours per week).
2010 Association of American Geographers/National Science Foundation, Travel Grant in
Support of International Geographical Union, Tel Aviv Conference Presentation.
2007 Fellowship, Schusterman Summer Institute for Israel Studies, Schusterman Center,
Brandeis University
2007-08 COPPER Scholarship
2006-07 Online Course Development Program Grant, Salem State College
2005-06 Information Technology Fellowship, Salem State College
2004 Student Technology Assistance to Faculty Grant, Salem State College
2001 Five Colleges Research/Travel Grant, Five Colleges, Inc. Amherst, MA
1998 General Research Grant, Association of American Geographers
1998 Faculty Development Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1997 Research Grant, Minnesota Historical Society
1997 Curriculum Development Grant (for American Indian Geographies, Spring 1998)
University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity
1997 Faculty Development Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1993 Dissertation Grant, Association of American Geographers
AWARDS
1997 J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award, Association of American Geographers
1994 Political Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Award
Association of American Geographers
1993 Cultural Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Award
Association of American Geographers
1984 Foster Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PROFESSIONAL/SERVICE ACTIVITIES - Salem State College 2002-present
Department of Geography
Departmental Program Review (author) 2012
Assessment Committee (Co-Chair) 2007-2008
Gamma Theta Upsilon Award Committee (Chair 2002, 200*-****-****
2011-2012
Natural Resource Management Conc. Curriculum Comm. 2003-2006
Sustainability Studies Curriculum Committee 2008-2012
Geography Curriculum Committee 2003-2009
Co-Author (with Dr. John Hayes), SSC 150th Anniversary Geography 2003
Department Presentation (text and power point presentation)
Atmospheric Science Position Hiring/ Search Committee 2004-2005
Coordinator, New Geography Flow Sheets for Major 2005-2006
Coordinator, Geography Submissions to New Core Curriculum Comm. 2005-2006
Co-Chair (with Dr. John Hayes), World Geography Bowl Team 2002-2008
GIS Curriculum Advisory Board, Member 2006-2007
Coordinator, Student-Faculty Exchange Program with 2006-2008
University of New Brunswick
Faculty Advisor, Salem Geographical Society (student association) 2006-2008
Peer Evaluation Committee 2007-2008
School of Arts and Sciences
Strategic Planning Committee 2003-2007
2008-2009
2010-2012
Sub-Committee on Planning the Strategic Plan 2003-2004
Sub-Committee on Program Planning of Retreat 2005-2006
College-Wide Committees
Library-Media Committee (contract) 2004-2006
Academic Policies Committee (contract) 2006-2009
2010-2012
Earth Day Planning Committee (non-contract) 2002-2009
Co-Organizer (with Dr. John Hayes), Earth Day Panel Discussion 2003-2005
Organizer, Earth Day Panel Discussion 2005-2007
College-Wide Assessment Committee (non-contract) 2004-2008
OTHER SALEM STATE COLLEGE ACTIVITIES
Faculty Academy on Diversity, Multiculturalism and Social Justice Summer 2006
in the Classroom
SERVICE TO ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
Association of American Geographers
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, Board of Directors 2004-2006
AAG Research Grants Committee 2004-2007
AAG Meridien Book Award Committee (Committee Chair 09-10-200*-****
Participant, Center for Online Global Geography Education Program 2005
Collaboration with Eritrean Class on Population Module
Steering Committee, Center for Online Global Geog. Education Program 2005-2008
Chair, Student Paper and Poster Competition Committee, 2009
NESTVAL Annual Meeting, Salem, MA. Nov. 6-7.
Manuscript Referee: (1995-2009)
Ecumene
Gender, Place, Culture
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Board
Proteus: A Journal of Ideas
Applied Geographic Studies
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Michigan Historical Review
Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
Antipode
Cultural Geographies
University of Nevada Press
Geographical Review
Judge, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition 1996-1998
Member, Board of Directors, American Indian Geography Specialty Group 1998-2000
Member, Five Colleges Native American Studies Curriculum Committee 2000-2002
EDUCATION
December 1995 Ph.D. Geography University of Wisconsin, Madison
August 1986 M.A. Geography University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
May 1984 B.A. Biology Clark University, Worcester, MA
DISSERTATION
Nature, Territory and Identity in the Wisconsin Ojibwe Treaty Rights Controversy.
Dissertation Committee: Robert Sack (Chair, Geography), Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography), Robert
Ostergren (Geography), William Cronon (Geography and History), Jack Kugelmass
(Anthropology).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999-00 Program Coordinator
National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RGIS)
Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Summer 1998 Editorial Consultant
Saunders Publishing Company
Division of Harcourt Brace & Company
Philadelphia, PA
1989-93 Survey Researcher
Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1986-88 Director of Prospect Research
University Resources-Century Capital Campaign
Clark University, Worcester, MA
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