DPhil Student
St Catherine's College
Ogden H. Olivas is a student of environmental and socio-cultural anthropology who’s work centers around informal management of natural resources, especially timber and timber products. His work investigates relationships between rural groups and forests in the context of property, climate, and environmental management. He focuses on the informal, moral, and dynamic conditions of land use, natural resources, and groups which sustain life from them.
Ogden's dissertation with Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography grapples with the practice of “tree rustling”, a form of timber extraction. His focus is on environmental ethics, practice, ecology, and trespass.
Areas of focus: The states of Maine, New York, and Oregon, USA.
Key words: extraction, enclosure, climate, community based land management, political ecology, commons, forestry, poaching, sustainability, life, property, risk.
Prior degrees:
MPS, Cornell University, Natural Resources and the Environment
BA, Bard College, Writing and Environmental Studies
AS, Prescott College, Ecology
