Eric Stowe Higgs

Contact Info

Eric Higgs
Director and Associate Professor, School of Environmental Studies
Work address:

132A Sedgewick Building
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 2Y2

Main Office: 1-32 Sedgewick
Telephone (office): (250) 472-5070
Telephone (main office): (250) 721-4298
Fax (work): (250) 721-8985
E-mail: ehiggs@uvic.ca
Homepage: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~willow.eric
Highest degree: Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1988
Previous Appointments: University of Victoria (Fall 2000); University of British Columbia (Fall 1996); MIT (Winter 1995); Oberlin College (1989-90); Polytechnic University (Brooklyn; 1988/89); University of Waterloo (1987/88).
Research areas: Ecological restoration; landscape change especially in national parks and protected areas; culture-nature relationships; technology and culture change; philosophy and anthropology of technology.
Regional interests: Alberta, North America, Nunavut.
Courses taught: Anthropology 230 (Anthropology of Science, Technology and Society); Anthropology 323 (Ecological Anthropology); Anthropology 331 (Anthropology of Technology ); Anthropology 531 (Traditions, Technology and Culture); Anthropology 585 (Ecological/Cultural Issues); Anthropology 598 (Landscape and Culture)
Research Projects: Bridgland Repeat Photography Project; Culture, Ecology and Restoration.


Eric at Mt. Rampart