EDUCATION
M.A.H. Yale University, 1998
Ph.D. Stanford University, Anthropology, 1981
M.A. Stanford University, Anthropology, 1972
B.A. Northwestern University, Anthropology, 1971
BIO
Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology in the Yale School of the Environment, Curator of Anthropology in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He is an environmental anthropologist, whose work focuses on the environmental relations of local communities, especially in South and Southeast Asia. His most recent books are “Hearsay Is Not Excluded” (Yale University Press, 2024) and “Bitter Shade” (Yale University Press, 2021). His current research/book project concerns Merapi Volcano, lithic ontologies, and the material turn.
Keywords: Climate change, natural hazards/disasters, indigenous knowledge, conservation and development, natural history, history of science, multispecies ethnography, posthumanist turn, Indonesia, Pakistan.
Recent Publications
Books
Dove, M. R. (2024). Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History. Yale University Press.
Dove, M. R. (2021). Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness. Yale Agrarian Studies.
Articles
Orrick, K., Dove, M., & Schmitz, O. J. (2024). Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions. Ambio, 53(2), 201-211.
Yamada, S., Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., & Dove, M. R. (2022). Sustainability as a moral discourse: Its shifting meanings, exclusions, and anxieties. Sustainability, 14(5), 3095.
Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., Yamada, S., & Dove, M. R. (2022). ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure (s). Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(1), 012002.
Zhou, W., Orrick, K., Lim, A., & Dove, M. (2021). Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat. Environmental Research Letters, 17(1), 011001.
Klein, W., Dove, M. R., & Felson, A. J. (2021). Engaging the unengaged: Understanding residents’ perceptions of social access to urban public space. Urban forestry & urban greening, 59, 126991.