Daniel J. Philippon

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Mission

My overriding mission as a scholar, teacher, and member of the academic community is to help find sustainable solutions to the complex, multi-scalar, context-dependent problems that threaten ecological systems and the human communities that depend on them. Because environmental problems resist disciplinary fragmentation, having neither a single root cause nor a clearly demarcated set of effects, I embrace an interdisciplinary philosophy that blends a concern for the environment with a critical analysis of the sources, character, and effects of that concern.

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, 1998
M.A., English, University of Virginia, 1993
B.A., English, Georgetown University, 1991

Employment at the University of Minnesota

Associate Professor, Department of English, 2008-
Associate Professor, Department of Writing Studies, 2007-08
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, 2004-07 (tenured 2004)
Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric, 1998-2004

Faculty Affiliations at the University of Minnesota

Gradate Faculty Appointments

American Studies
Conservation Biology
Development Studies and Social Change
English
Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
Risk Analysis for Introduced Species and Genotypes

Centers, Programs, and Institutes

Center for Writing
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative
Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability
Institute on the Environment
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
Studies of Science and Technology