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Women Scholars: Navigating the Doctoral Journey, 2018, p.301-326
Ort / Verlag
United Kingdom: Apple Academic Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Kit Anderson, PhD
Senior Lecturer (Retired), Environmental Sciences, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, USAAt the age of 40, when her two sons were in college, the author quit her
job as a garden magazine editor and director of a nonprofit in Vermont,
and headed south to accept a PhD fellowship at Louisiana State University.
After enjoying the warmth, food, music, and rich cultures of that region
and Central America for five years, she made her way back north. Her
dissertation research on live oaks and ceibas was published by University of
Texas Press as Nature, Culture and Big Old Trees. Finding work in academia
was challenging. Tenure-track positions tend to go to the young (and, until
recently, males). But since 1997, as a lecturer and eventually senior lecturer
at the University of Vermont, she has taught a wide range of courses in the
Environmental Program: among them ethnobotany, traditional ecological
knowledge, trees and culture, religion and ecology, and research methods.
Publishing any research, unfortunately, has taken a back seat, although she
has presented at national and international conferences. On the other hand,
working with undergraduates on their senior theses was highly rewarding.
Best of all is being able to continue living in Vermont.