ERIC ROBERTSON

I was born and raised in rural Utah fascinated by ancient cultures and how humans interact with different ecosystems. I was drawn away from that environment to travel and live in Europe and Asia, picking up languages and cultural insights along the way. I teach HONOR 3200, 2211, and contribute to both the Ecology and Legacy and Human Rights and Resources Integrated Minors. I'm also a fiction writer and editor for the Dark Mountain Project out of the UK, as well as a researcher and published author in the environmental humanities, focusing on personal ecology. I seek to help students come to terms with just how strange and wonderful the human animal is, and can be, and how that strangeness can be harnessed to improve our quality of life.

My academic interests include cultural ecology, American West Studies, neuro-humanities, philosophy of science, creative fiction/non-fiction writing, and environmental humanities.