Ninian R. Stein
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Environmental Studies
Degrees
Ph.D., Brown University, Department of Anthropology, 2007
M.E.Sc., Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2003
M.A., Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, 2001
B.A., Brown University, Environmental Studies and Anthropology/Archaeology, 1999
Main Interests
Anthropology and Archaeology
Social Ecology
Research Interests
Environmental Archeology
Human-Environment Interactions Through Time
Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences
Teaching Interests
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Environmental Science
Environmental Policy
Society and Environment
New England Environmental History
Maps and Dreams: Native Peoples, Colonists and Natural Resources
Climate Change and Society
How to Read a Landscape: Method and Theory from the Environmental Sciences, History and Archaeology
Other Interests
Pedagogical Training:
Presenter, Education Technology Conference, UMass Boston, 2008
Teaching Certificates, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University
Teaching Consultant, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University
Publications
Nearing completion as a book manuscript, Ninian's research project on a former factory, Not Your Average Run of the Mill: Environmental History and Industrial Archaeology, is under consideration by Yale University Press.
Creative Work
Dissertation: Native Peoples and Subsistence in Late Woodland and Early Contact Period Southern New England
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Environmental Archaeologist, Greene Farm Achaeological Project, 2008-present
Co-Director, Greene Farm Archaeological Project, 2004-2008
Archaeological Laboratory Technician and Excavator, Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA 2002
Excavator:
Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA 2001
Harvard Field School on Martha's Vineyard, 1999
Flora MacDonald Project, Scotland, 1998
Kasfiki Site, Corfu, Greece, 1996