Author & Editor
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John is working with the Center for Humans and Nature on a new five-volume collection that re-examines the Elements, with John's role focusing on the fifth volume entitled "An Elemental Life." John's books, and chapters within books, focus on the intersection of social justice and environmental ethics. After publishing his doctoral dissertation in the form of Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature in 2008, he has attempted to shift away from an academic voice in order to blend storytelling methods into how he engages readers with the compelling questions of his field and with applications of those questions through social and personal action.
Authored and Edited Books:

• Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature
• Wildness: Relations of People and Place (co-edited with Gavin Van Horn)
• Letters from the Headwaters 
• What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? (co-edited with Brooke Hecht, Kate Cummings, and Melissa Nelson)
• Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (co-edited with Gavin Van Horn and Robin Kimmerer)
• Future Project: Sublime: The History and Future of Awe

Chapters in Books:

• Natural Protest
• ​Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience 

Shorter Pieces:

• What Does an Anti-Racist Look Like?
• Wildness and COVID Adaptation​