Annette Watson

Associate Professor of Political Science

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

M.A., University of Alaska-Fairbanks

B.A., College of the Atlantic

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Her current research focuses on subsistence economies of North America: in Alaska, she has worked with a variety of hunters and fishermen and tribal groups on the politics of natural resource management, and in the Lowcountry she is researching similar subsistence regimes relied upon by the historic residents of the Carolinas.

COURSES TAUGHT

Environmental geography, world regional geography, political ecology, Indigenous/Native American studies, and the politics of science.

PUBLICATIONS

Her most recent published work, co-authored with a Koyukon Athabascan intellectual, articulates indigenous methods of adaptation for wildlife policy in the face of rapid climate change. Articles have appeared in Social and Cultural Geography, the Journal of Environmental Management, Emotion Space and Society, and Wicazo Sa Review. She is also currently at work on articles about the philosophy and ethics of methods in wildlife management, and a study on salmon fisheries conflict in the Yukon River Drainage.