Assistant Professor
Columbine 2015719.255.4906
dhavlick@uccs.edu
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curriculum vitae

Education:

• PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
• MS, Environmental Studies, University of Montana, 1992
• AB, English, Dartmouth College, 1987

Research Interests:

• Militarized Landscapes
• Conservation and Public Land Policy
• Environmental Restoration and Ethics
• Sustainability
• Environmental Politics
• Critical Geography

Research Projects:

• Authenticity and Historical Fidelity in Ecological Restoration: The Case of Former U.S. Military Lands," (with Co-PI Marion Hourdequin, Dept. of Philosophy, Colorado College). Supported by the National Science Foundation, Science, Technology and Society division, 2010-2013
• Sustainability, Technology, and Militarization
• Feasibility study of wind power production at UCCS
• UCCS Open Space and Trails: identification, mapping, and preservation (with Eric Billmeyer, Rocky Mountain Field Institute)

Courses Taught:

• World Regional Geography
• Conservation and U.S. Public Lands
• Recreation, Tourism, and the Environment
• Restoration Geographies
• Militarization, Environment, and Society
• Sustainability Seminar
• Cultural and Political Ecology
• Qualitative Methods in Geography
• Introduction to Human Geography

Awards and Honors:

• Teaching Enhancement Award, "Enhancing Teaching in Sustainability and Geography: Wind Power Pilot Study," 2009-2010
• Student Achievement Assessment Committee grant, "Assessment and Enhancement of the UCCS Minor in Sustainable Development," 2009-2010
• National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant, 2005-2006

Selected Publications:

• Havlick, David G. 2011. "Disarming Nature: Converting Military Lands to Wildlife Conservation," The Geographical Review 101(2): 183-200.
• Hourdequin, Marion and David G. Havlick. 2011. "Ecological Restoration in Context: Ethics and the Naturalization of Former Military Lands," Ethics, Policy, and Environment 14(1): 69-89.
• Havlick, David G. 2010. "Militarization, Conservation, and U.S. Base Transformations," In Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, Pearson, C.J., T. Cole, P. Coates, eds. (Continuum Press).
• Doyle, Martin W. and David G. Havlick. 2009. "Infrastructure and the Environment," Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34: 349-373.
• Havlick, David G. and Martin W. Doyle. September 2009. "Restoration Geographies," Ecological Restoration 27(3): 240-243.
• Doyle, Martin W., Emily H. Stanley, David G. Havlick, Mark J. Kaiser, George Steinbach, William L. Graf, Gerald E. Galloway, and J. Adam Riggsbee, "Aging Infrastructure and Ecosystem Restoration,"Science 319 (18 January 2008): 286-287.
• Havlick, David G. "Logics of Change for Military-to-Wildlife Conversions in the United States," GeoJournal 69(2007): 151-164.
• Havlick, David G. 2007. "Smoke and Gears: Seeing Through the Off-Roaders' Demographic Mirage," in: George Wuerthner, ed., Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation. San Francisco, CA: Foundation for Deep Ecology.
• Havlick, David G. March 2006. "Reconsidering Wilderness: Prospective Ethics for Nature, Technology, and Society," Ethics, Place and Environment 9(1): 47-62.
• Havlick, David G. 2002. No Place Distant: Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 297 pp.

Outreach and Service:

• Director, UCCS Sustainable Development minor
• UCCS Sustainability Committee
• UCCS General Education Task Force
• Board Member, Rocky Mountain Field Institute
• Board Member, Catamount Center for Geography of the Southern Rockies
• Advisory Board, Wild Rockies Field Institute
• Faculty Editor, Colorado College State of the Rockies Report Card, 2007-2008