Jeremy Spoon (Ph.D., University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2008) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Emergency Management and Community Resilience graduate program. An applied environmental anthropologist, Dr. Spoon's research focuses on Indigenous and rural peoples, mountainous protected areas, ethnoecology, hazards and disasters (seismic events, wildfires), place-based spirituality, public education, and collaborative and mixed quantitative and qualitative methods in Nepal and the western United States. Dr. Spoon strives to apply research findings to projects created in participatory and equitable ways, such as the integration of Indigenous knowledge into protected area governance, management, and interpretation or disaster recovery interventions by government and aid organizations.
Selected Works:
- Spoon, Jeremy, Drew Gerkey, Ram B. Chherti, Alisa Rai, Umesh Basnet, and Chelsea E. Hunter. (2021) Understanding short-term household recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: Lessons learned and recommendations. Progress in Disaster Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100169
- Spoon, Jeremy, Chelsea Hunter, Ram B. Chhetri, Alisa Rai, Umesh Basnet, and Anudeep Dewan. (2020). Anatomy of Disaster Recoveries: Tangible and Intangible Short-Term Recovery Dynamics Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101879
- Spoon, Jeremy, Drew Gerkey, Ram B. Chhetri, Alisa Rai, and Umesh Basnet. (2020). Navigating Multidimensional Household Recoveries Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105041
- Spoon, Jeremy. (2014). Quantitative, Qualitative, and Collaborative Methods: Approaching Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Heterogeneity. Ecology and Society 19(3): 33.
- Spoon, Jeremy, Kruger, Brittany, Arnold, Richard, Barcalow, Kate, and Tribal Revegetation Committee, TRC. (2021) Tribal Revegetation Project Final Project Report: 92-Acre Area, Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Nevada National Security Site, Nevada. https://doi.org/10.2172/1773633
- Verschuuren, Bas; Mallarach, Josep-Maria; Bernbaum, Edwin; Spoon, Jeremy; Brown, Steve; Borde, Radhika; Brown, Jessica; Calamia, Mark; Mitchell, Nora; Infield, Mark; Lee, Emma; Groves, Craig. (2021). Cultural and spiritual significance of nature: Guidance for protected and conserved area governance and management. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2021.PAG.32.en
Courses Taught:
- Anth 103 Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology
- Anth 300U The Modern World in Anthropological Perspective
- Anth 345 Practicing Anthropology
- Anth 414/518 Culture and Ecology
- Anth 415/515 Applied Anthropology
- Anth 418/528 Environmental Anthropology
- Anth 511 Core Seminar in Social and Cultural Anthropology