Academics

Glenn Adelson
Associate Professor and Chair
Environmental Studies

Phone 847-735-6281
E-mail gadelson@lakeforest.edu
Web http://campus.lakeforest.edu/gadelson/

Particular Interests
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Studies
Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology
Conceptualizing Biodiversity
Literature and the Environment

Education
Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
B.A., University of Michigan, with Honors in English Literature

Courses Taught
Environmental Studies 110: Introduction to Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies 117: Geography
Environmental Studies 282: Lake Forestry
Environmental Studies 388: Who Speaks for Nature?: Authority in Science, Literature, and Law
Environmental Studies 480: War and the Environment

Books
Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, co-edited with Jim Engell, Brent Ranalli, and K. P. Van Anglen, Yale University Press, 2008.

Biodiversity:  Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation, with Dan Perlman, Blackwell Science, 1997.

Study Guide for College Edition of "Diversity of Life," by E. O. Wilson, with Dan Perlman, W. W. Norton, 1993.

Articles
Christina Riehl and Glenn Adelson, “Seasonal Insectivory by Black-Headed Trogons (Trogonidae), a Tropical Dry Forest Frugivore,” Journal of Field Ornithology, Volume 79, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 371–380.

Glenn Adelson and John Elder, “Ecosystems of meaning in Robert Frost’s ‘Spring Pools,’” lead article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 13.2 (Summer 2006): 1–17.

Glenn Adelson, “Review of Oxford Surveys of Evolutionary Biology, v. 3,” Cladistics, Vol. 6 (1): 105–110, 1990.

Invited Talks
“Hard Interdisciplinarity: The Paradigm for Environmental Studies,” Brown Center for Environmental Studies, 2008 Inaugural Presentation, September 11, 2008

“The Future of Environmental Science Textbooks,” University of Illinois Chicago, Incoming Graduate Student Book Award Presentation, August 29, 2008

“How understanding the biology of the poetry of Robert Frost and Marianne Moore enriches interpretation,” University of Michigan, First Distinguished Alumni Speaker, Honors English Program, November 2007

Awards and Honors
Joseph Levenson teaching award, Harvard University, 1991, 2006
Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, Harvard University, 1998
Fay prize for senior undergraduate thesis advising, Harvard University, 2005
Wellesley library award for advising best student paper, Wellesley College, 2008