CHRISTOPHER McGRORY KLYZA
Robert '35 and Helen '38 Stafford Professor in Public Policy
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies
206 Hillcrest
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: (802) 443-5309
FAX: (802) 443-2458
email: klyza@middlebury.edu
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN
Graduate School, Department of Political Science
Doctor of Philosophy, August 1990
Dissertation Title: Patterns in Public Lands Politics: The Consequences of
Ideas and the State
Winner of the American Political Science Association's 1991 Harold Lasswell
Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of policy studies.
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Forestry and Environmental
Studies
Master of Science, September 1983
Thesis Title: The Political Economy of the Development of Mount Rogers National
Recreation Area
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Major: Natural Resources
Bachelor of Science with Distinction, May 1981
Building the Green State: Conservation and Environmental Institution Building
at the State and National Level in the United States, 1781-2000.
Books
Co-author (with David J. Sousa), 2008, American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast, editor, 2001, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Co-author (with Stephen C. Trombulak), 1999, The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Who Controls Public Lands?: Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990,1996, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Co-editor (with Stephen C. Trombulak), 1994, The Future of the Northern Forest, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Co-author (with David J. Sousa), "New Directions in Environmental Policymaking: An Emerging Collaborative Regime or Reinventing Interest Group Liberalism?," 2007, Natural Resources Journal, 47: 377-444.
Co-author (with Andrew Savage and Jonathan Isham), "Local Environmental
Groups and the Creation of Social Capital: Evidence from Vermont," 2006,
Society and Natural Resources, 19: 905-919.
Co-author (with Andrew Savage and Jonathan Isham), "The Greening of Social Capital: An Examination of Land-Based Groups in Two Vermont Counties," Rural Sociology, 70: 113-131.
"The United States Army, Natural Resources, and Political Development in the Nineteenth Century," 2002, Polity, 35: 1-28.
"Explaining U.S. Public Lands Politics: State-Sensitive Theory or Business Dominance Perspective?," 2001, Studies in American Political Development, 15: 245-249.
Co-author (with Stephen C. Trombulak), "The New Natural History," 2000, Natural Areas Journal, 20: 267-272.
"Privileged Ideas and State Interests: Bombs, Trees, and State Autonomy,"
with Eric Mlyn, 1995, Policy Studies Journal, 23: 203-217.
"Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Patterns: Hardrock Mining, Forestry,
and Grazing Policy on the United States Public Lands, 1870-1985," 1994,
Studies in American Political Development, 8: 341-374.
"Do Trees Have Rights? Rights, Nature, and Conceptual Change,"
1994, Southeastern Political Review, 22: 425-444.
"A Window of Autonomy: State Autonomy and the Forest Service in the
Early 1900s," 1992, Polity, 25: 173-196.
Co-author (with David J. Sousa), 2007, "Policy Pathways," in Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, edited by Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, Washington: Island Press.
"An Eastern Turn for Wilderness," 2001, in Wilderness Comes Home:
Rewilding the Northeast, edited by Christopher McGrory Klyza, Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England.
"Public Lands and Wild Lands in the Northeast," 2001, in Wilderness
Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast, edited by Christopher McGrory Klyza,
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
"Reform at a Geological Pace: Mining Policy on the Federal Lands,"
2001, in Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics, 2d ed., edited
by Charles Davis, Boulder, CO: Westview; "Reform at a Geological Pace:
Mining Policy on the Federal Lands, 1964-1994," 1997, in Western Public
Lands and Environmental Politics, edited by Charles Davis, Boulder, CO:
Westview.
"Connecting with Human and Natural Communities at Middlebury College," (with John Elder, Jim Northup, and Stephen Trombulak), 1999, in Acting Locally: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Environmental Studies, edited by Harold Ward, Washington: American Association for Higher Education.
"Bioregional Possibilities in Vermont," 1999, in Bioregionalism, edited by Michael V. McGinnis, London and New York: Routledge Press.
"The Northern Forest: Problems, Politics, and Alternatives," 1994, in The Future of the Northern Forest, edited by Christopher McGrory Klyza and Stephen C. Trombulak, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
"The Future of the Northern Forest: Putting All the Pieces Together," 1994, with Stephen C. Trombulak, in The Future of the Northern Forest, edited by Christopher McGrory Klyza and Stephen C. Trombulak, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
"Wildlands in the Northeastern United States," 2001, International
Journal of Wilderness, August, pp. 8-10.
"An Eastern Turn for Wilderness," 2001, Wild Earth, Spring,
pp. 10-15.
"Policy Changes Protect Vermont Forests: But What's Next after the NFLC?," 1997, Vermont Environmental Report, October, pp. 10-11.
"Lessons from the Vermont Wilderness," 1994, Wild Earth, Spring, pp. 75-79.
"Cars, Deer, and Ecocentrism," 1992-1993, Wild Earth, Winter, pp. 70-71.
"Framing the Debate in Public Lands Politics," 1991, Policy Studies Journal, 19: 577-585.
Book Series Editor
Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies, series co-editor (with John Elder and Stephen C. Trombulak), University Press of New England, 1997-2001.
Book Reviews in Agricultural History, Environmental Ethics (2), Environmental History, Environmental History Review, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Social History, Policy Currents, Policy Studies Review, Vida Silvestre Neotropical, and Wild Earth (7).
Contributed 32 entries of from 100 to over 1,500 words to Environmental Encyclopedia, Detroit: Gale Research, 1993; contributed two revised entires for Environmental Encyclopedia, 2d ed., Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
Compiled an annotated chronology "Land Protection in the United States, 1864-1997," Wild Earth, Summer 1998, pp. 35-42.
"Environmental Policy Beyond Gridlock: New Paths, Old Problems?," University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 2005.
"Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast," University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, April 2003.
"Environmental Writing," University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, April
2003.
"Backdoor Environmentalism: Environmental Policy for the Twenty-first
Century," Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, March 2003.
"Rewilding the Northeast: Biodiversity, History, and Politics," Washington
College, Chestertown, MD, October 2002.
"The Northern Forest," National Park Service Conservation Study Institute,
Mid Level Intake Program, Rochester, VT, August 2002.
"Rewilding the Northeast: Biodiversity, History, and Politics," Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH, October 2001.
"Wildlands and Sustainable Agriculture: "… and ever the twain
shall meet"," co-presenter with Steve Trombulak, presented at the
Annual Winter Conference of theNortheast Organic Farming Association of Vermont,
Randolph, VT, February 2001.
"The Story of Vermont," Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT, August 2000.
"The Story of Vermont," Rutland Regional Planning Commisson, Rutland,
VT, April 2000.
"Vermont's Landscape: Current Trends and Future Implications," Otter
Creek Audubon Society, Middlebury, VT, November 1999.
"Vermont and the New Natural History," University of Vermont, Burlington,
VT, October 1999.
"Past, Present, and Future Policy Trends in the Northern Forest,"
People and the Northern Forest: Real World Teaching Workshop, Ripton, VT, October
1999.
"Bioregionalism, Natural History, and People on the Land: The Case of
Vermont," Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 1999.
"Bioregional Possibilities in Vermont," Keynote Speaker, Fourth Annual
International Symposium on the St. Lawrence Ecosystem, Potsdam, NY, April 1997.
"Trees, Grass, and Rocks: Patterns in Public Lands Politics," University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, May 1991.
"Radical Environmentalism," Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, May 1991.
"The Public Lands and the Public Interest," University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, July 1990.
Abernethy Series, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, April 2001; Reflections
on Nature Series, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, April 2000; Book Rack,
Winooski, VT, October 1999; Danforth Library, Barnard, VT, September 1999; Deerleap
Books, Bristol, VT, September 1999; Misty Valley Books, Chester, VT, August
1999; Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT, August 1999; Northshire Bookshop, Manchester,
VT, August 1999.
USA Today, Boston Globe, Maine Public Television/New Hampshire Public Television/Vermont Public Television, "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio, High Country News.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Middlebury, VT
July 2003 - present, Robert '35 and Helen '38 Stafford Professor in Public Policy
September 2000 - present, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies
July 2007 - June 2008, July 2000 - June 2003; July 1994 - June 1997, Director,
Program in Environmental Studies
September 1998 - August 2000, Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental
Studies
July 1995 - August 1998, Associate Professor of Political Science
September 1990 - July 1995, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Courses Taught: Conservation and Environmental Policy, Seminar on American
Environmental Politics, Perspectives on the Environmental Movement, Environmental
Studies Senior Seminar, American Political Development, American Public Policy,
Political Methodology, Living in Place, Sustainable Lands, Wild Lands; WINTER
TERM: The New Environmental Movement, Perspectives on Human Habitation, The
Public Lands, Grizzly Bears and Wolves, Visions of an Environmental Future in
Film and Literature; Aldo Leopold: Theory and Practice.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, Burlington, VT
Visiting Instructor; Visiting Professor
Department of Political Science; Environmental Studies Program
August 1988 - July 1990; Summer 1994
Courses Taught: Introduction to American Politics, Interest Groups and Power,
Natural Resources Policy, Perspectives on the Environmental Movement.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN
Department of Political Science
Instructor; Courses Taught: Introduction to American Politics, American Political
Thought (September 1986 - March 1988).
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
Research Analyst: Prepared three reports: relationship among property rights,
groundwater contamination, and agricultural chemicals; analysis of student housing
survey; potential for economic development for the Mille Lacs Band of the Chippewa
Tribe of Minnesota (jointly) (Summer 1986, Summer 1987, March - July 1988).
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, St. Paul, MN
Research Analyst: Prepared two major reports: analysis of state lakeshore
leasing program and analysis of ownership and management of submerged lands
in Minnesota. Both reports jointly funded by the Legislative Commission on Minnesota
Resources and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (Summer 1984, Summer
1985).
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC
Center for Resource and Environmental Policy
Teaching Assistant; Research Associate (January 1982 - May 1983).