JEREMY J. SCHMIDT. Post-doctoral Fellow, Social Anthropology, Harvard University

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1 JEREMY J. SCHMIDT POSITION Post-doctoral Fellow, Social Anthropology, Harvard University CONTACT Harvard University, Anthropology see website 33 Kirkland Street, WJH 318 Web: Cambridge, MA EDUCATION PhD Geography, University of Western Ontario (Western) MA Geography, McGill University BA Philosophy and Geography (Great Distinction), University of Lethbridge BA Theology & Wilderness Leadership, Prairie Bible College EXPERIENCE Post-doctoral Fellow Social Anthropology, Harvard University Principle Investigator Alternative water futures in Alberta Parkland Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta Graduate course co-designer, McGill University, Program in Integrated Water Resources Management, NRSC 512: Water: ethics, law and policy Co-investigator with Dr. Peter G. Brown, McGill University Water and ethics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Research Assistant Principle Investigator: Peter G. Brown, McGill School of Environment. Project title: Institutions for Global Stewardship AWARDS SSHRC: Post-doctoral Fellowship $ Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation: Doctoral Scholarship $ Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative: Graduate Scholarship $ Winner: Graduate Essay Contest, Environmental Studies Association of Canada $ Top Student, Department of Geography, Western honor SSHRC: Doctoral Fellowship $ UWO: Western Graduate Research Scholarship $ SSHRC: CGS Masters Scholarship $ McGill University: Recruitment Excellence Fellowship $ Government of Alberta: Jason Lang Scholarship $ University of Lethbridge: Academic Scholarship $ Government of Alberta: Jason Lang Scholarship $ University of Lethbridge: Academic Scholarship $ Canadian Association of Bible Colleges: Pi Alpha Mu Honors Society honor TEACHING Lecturer Department of Geography & Environment, Mt. Allison University GENV 4991c: Ethics in geography, planning & environment (Winter 11) GENV 4991b: Geographies of water: management, planning metrics & mores (Fall 10) Lecturer Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario GEOG 4000b: The nature and philosophy of geography (Winter 09) Assistant Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario Resource and environmental management; Geography of hazards Assistant Department of Geography & School of Environment, McGill University Water: ethics, law and policy (Graduate); Principles of Earth citizenship; Environmental management; Knowledge, ethics & environment; Protected areas December 2013, 1 of 7

2 PUBLICATIONS Summary Books = 2 Refereed Articles = 9 Refereed Book Chapters & Policy Reports = 7 Book Reviews = 14 Books Brown, Peter G. and Jeremy J. Schmidt (Eds). Water ethics: foundational readings for students and professionals, Washington: Island Press. In progress. Normal water: managing our way into the Anthropocene. Monograph. Refereed articles In press. Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Kyle R. Mitchell. Property and the right to water: toward a non-liberal commons. Review of Radical Political Economics. Online advance: June 12, 2013, DOI: / In press. Schmidt, Jeremy J. The retreating state: political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space. Political Geography. Online advance: November 28, 2013, Schmidt, Jeremy J. Historicizing the hydrosocial cycle. Water Alternatives 7(1): in press Matthews, Nate and Jeremy J. Schmidt. False promises: the contours, contexts and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Water Governance 2(1): in press Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Dan Shrubsole. Modern water ethics: implications for shared governance. Environmental Values 22(3): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Integrating water management in the Anthropocene. Society and Natural Resources 26(1): Groenfeldt, David and Jeremy J. Schmidt. Ethics and water governance. Ecology and Society 18(1): 14. [Open URL] Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Martha Dowsley. Hunting with polar bears: problems with the passive properties of the commons. Human Ecology 38(3): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Pricing water to death: Alberta s water permits prolong the problem. Alternatives Journal 33(4): Refereed book chapters & reports Invited & forthcoming. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water quality and availability. In, Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light (Eds). London: Routledge. Accepted. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Alberta s water: from community to capital. In Unsettling development: the political ecology and governance of Alberta. L. Adkin, N. Krogman and B. Miller (Eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. In press. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water: an ethical opportunity for Canada. In Water as a Social Opportunity, J. Linton and S. Davidson (Eds). Montreal: McGill-Queen s Press. December 2013, 2 of 7

3 2012. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Scarce or insecure? The right to water and the ethics of global water governance. In, The right to water: politics, governance and social struggles, F. Sultana and A. Loftus (Eds). London: Routledge. Pp Schmidt, Jeremy J. Alternative water futures in Alberta. Parkland Institute (Edmonton: University of Alberta, ISBN: ) 55pp Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water ethics and water management. In Water Ethics, Brown P.G. and J.J. Schmidt (Eds). Washington DC: Island Press. Pp Brown, P.G. and J.J. Schmidt. An ethic of compassionate retreat. In Water Ethics, Brown P.G. and J.J. Schmidt (Eds). Washington: Island Press. Pp Book reviews in refereed journals In press. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Chang, H. Is water H 2O? Evidence, realism and pluralism. (Springer, 2012). Water History 5. In press. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Desbiens, C. Power from the North: territory, identity and the culture of hydropower in Quebec. (UBC Press, 2013). Quebec Studies Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Mascarenhas, M. Where the waters divide: neoliberalism, white privilege, and environmental racism in Canada. (Lexington Books, 2012). Canadian Public Policy 39(2): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Moran, E. Environmental social science: humanenvironment interactions and sustainability. (Wiley Publishers, 2010). International Journal of Social Research Methodology 15(5): Schmidt, J. J. Review: Zetland, D. The end of abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity. (Aguanomics Press, 2011). Journal of Peace Research 49(4): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Boelens, R., Getches, D. and A. G. Gil (Eds.), Out of the mainstream: water rights, politics and identity. (Earthscan, 2010). Agriculture and Human Values 29(1): Schmidt, Jeremy Review: D. Kysar, Regulating from nowhere: environmental law and the search for objectivity. (Yale University Press, 2010). Environmental Values 20(4): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: J. Linton, What is water? The history of a modern abstraction. (UBC Press, 2010). The Canadian Geographer 55(4): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: D. Delaney, The spatial, the legal, and the pragmatics of world-making: nomospheric investigations. (Routledge, 2010). Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(6): Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: Kenway, J. and Fahey, J. (Eds.), Globalizing the research imagination. (Routledge, 2009). International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14(4): Schmidt, J. J. The de-symbolized world. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 22: Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: G. Chamberlain, Troubled waters: religion, ethics, and the global water crisis. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008). Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 4: Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: U. Heise, Sense of place and sense of planet: the environmental imagination of the global. (Oxford University Press, 2008). Ethics, Place & Environment, 12(1): December 2013, 3 of 7

4 2008. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Review: J. Benidickson, The culture of flushing: a social and legal history of sewage. (UBC Press, 2007). Canadian Public Policy 34: Other publications (popular, proceedings, reprints & theses) In press. Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt, Living in the Anthropocene: compassionate retreat or business as usual? In, State of the World 2014, The WorldWatch Institute (Ed). Washington DC: Island Press Schmidt, Jeremy J. Are the Conservatives killing coastal Canada? Truro Daily News, 30 March Schmidt, Jeremy J. Canada without the commons. The Mark News, 5 November. URL: Schmidt, Jeremy J. Ethical enigmas in modern water policy: the Albertan example. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Western University, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Paper 606: Schmidt, Jeremy J. The ethic of transition: evidence from multi-level governance in Alberta. Proceedings of the World Water Congress. Recife, Brazil, September Schmidt, Jeremy J. Why is the census not an election issue? The Mark News, 11 April. URL: Schmidt, Jeremy J. Ethical oil: a moral misnomer. The Mark News, 21 January. URL: Schmidt, Jeremy J. The ethics of instream flows: science and policy in southern Alberta, Canada. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 70: Brown, Peter G. and Jeremy J. Schmidt. An ethic of compassionate retreat. Minding Nature: Journal for the Center of Humans and Nature 3(2): (reprint) Dowsley, M. and Schmidt, Jeremy J. Hunting with polar bears: questioning assumptions of passive property. Proceedings of the 12 th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, July 14-18, Cheltenham, England Schmidt, Jeremy J. The past, present and future of water policy in the South Saskatchewan River Basin, Alberta, Canada. Unpublished MA Thesis, McGill University. INVITED TALKS Colloquium Seminar Valuing water resources. Environment and Sustainability Studies, Acadia University, April Colloquium Seminar Making-up territory: land, water, world. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, November Colloquium Seminar Unsettled waters: implications of federal and provincial changes to water policy. University of Alberta, October Colloquium Seminar Unsettled waters: implications of federal and provincial changes to water policy. Athabasca University, October Colloquium Seminar Unsettled waters: implications of federal and provincial changes to water policy. Portage College, October Panelist Information, private actors and environmental policy. Trudeau Foundation Summer Institute, Montebello, QC, May December 2013, 4 of 7

5 2012. Colloquium Seminar Water and world-making: abundance, scarcity and security in global governance. Geography Department, King s College London, March Colloquium Seminar Alberta s water ethic: territory, scarcity, security. Department of Geography, Western University. November 26 EVENTS CONFERENCES Panel Expert Canada s ethical obligations regarding global water challenges. Mt. Allison University, Mansbridge Summit. January Workshop Paper Vitalism atrophied? Historicizing the hydro-social cycle. Harvard University Water Workshop. April Workshop Paper Ordering water resources. Political Ecology Working Group, Harvard University, November Topic Leader Water and sustainability. World Policy Institute. New York, May Workshop Leader with Jared Giesbrecht (U Victoria) Between tradition and innovation: a forum on a new kind of conservatism. Trudeau Foundation Scholars Workshop. Victoria, B.C. February Speaking Tour Alternative water futures in Alberta. Cities: Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer. December Session Moderator Transition to Adaptive Water Management: Multi-level Governance of Transformation. World Water Congress, Recife, Brazil, Sept Workshop Leader with Lily Yumagulova (UBC) and Nic Rivers (U Ottawa). Ideas for change: creativity in managing socio-ecological systems. Trudeau Foundation Scholars Workshop, Saskatoon, SK. May Invited Guest Restoring Balance The Great Mississippi River. Religion, Science and the Environment Symposium. New Orleans, October 18 ( Critical Reading Seminar. Dis-membered: A critical assessment of inclusion criteria in environmental debates. Department of Geography, Western University 2013 Schmidt, Jeremy J. Constitutional waters: language games and policy objects in Alberta, Canada. Paper: Society for Social Studies of Science. San Diego, October Schmidt, Jeremy J. Aldo Leopold s classification of things: ecology, nominalism and obligations. Paper: American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, April 3-6. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Land, water, territory: what does the privatization of First Nations land imply for other resource rights? Presentation: Keeping the promise: the path ahead to full modern treaty implementation. Ottawa, February Schmidt, Jeremy J. Recovering community: water governance, ethics and leadership. Presentation: Keepers of the Water VI, Ft. Nelson, B.C., September Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Kyle Mitchell. Property and the right to water: toward a non-liberal commons. Paper: Association of American Geographers. New York, February Schmidt, Jeremy J. Transition theory, coupled human-natural systems, and geography. Panelist: Association of American Geographers. New York, February December 2013, 5 of 7

6 Schmidt, Jeremy J. A new space for conservatism. Paper: Between tradition and innovation: a forum on a new kind of conservatism. Trudeau Foundation Scholars Workshop, Victoria, B.C., February 7. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Grounding water policy: wastewater and Alberta s Water for Life strategy. Presentation: 14 th Annual Alberta Onsite Wastewater Management Association Convention. Edmonton, January Schmidt, Jeremy J. Sovereignty and self-rule: scaling citizenship to complex systems. Presentation: Crossing Canada: A National Dialogue. Halifax, November 17. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water as an ethical opportunity: rethinking failures in Canadian water policy. Paper: Water as a Social Opportunity. Kingston, Ontario, Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Schmidt, Jeremy J. The ethic of transition: evidence from multi-level governance in Alberta. Paper: XIV World Water Congress. Recife, Brazil, September Schmidt, Jeremy J. Modern water ethics: from progress to compassionate retreat. Paper: 8th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June Schmidt, Jeremy J. Reporting on the states of things, such as Alberta s watersheds. Presentation: Canadian Association of Geographers. Calgary, AB. May 31-June 4. Schmidt, Jeremy J. What is water? Author-meets-critic panel w/jamie Linton, Erik Swyngedouw and Farhana Sultana. Presentation: Association of American Geographers. Seattle, April Schmidt, Jeremy J. The ethics of instream flows: science and policy in southern Alberta, Canada. Paper: International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management. Paris, France. Oct Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water s territory: Western water norms in southern Alberta from settlement to sustainability. Paper: Under Western Skies, Calgary, AB. Oct Schmidt, Jeremy J. Creativity pace change: resilience as policy metaphor. Paper: Ideas for change: creativity in managing socio-ecological systems. Trudeau Foundation Scholars Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, May 21. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Scarce or insecure? The changing ethics of global water governance. Paper: The Right to Water. Syracuse, New York. March Schmidt, Jeremy J. What is water for? Assessing the state of water management education in Canada. Presentation: WaterEDwest, September 10-13, 2009, Banff. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Towards a water ethic: Canadian agendas and provincial experience in Alberta. Paper: 6 th Canadian River Heritage Conference, June 14-17, Ottawa. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Is social learning good? The ethical paradox of adaptive management. Paper: Canadian Association of Geographers, May 26-30, Ottawa. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water s territory: political boundaries to settlement and sustainability in southern Alberta. Paper: History in the Making 14. March 7, Concordia U. Montreal Dowsley, M. and J.J. Schmidt Hunting with polar bears: questioning assumptions of passive property. 12 th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, July 14-18, Cheltenham, England. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water and ethics: why a new model for resource management is needed. Paper: Interdisciplinary Environmental Assoc. June 30 July 3, Edmonton, AB. December 2013, 6 of 7

7 Schmidt, Jeremy J. What are water policies for? Paper: Environmental Studies Association of Canada, June 3-6, Vancouver, British Columbia Schmidt, Jeremy J. Sustaining development through a cooperative economy. Presentation: 4 th Annual Citizen s Summit, June 1-3, Montreal. Schmidt, Jeremy J. Adaptive management, social learning and the future of water management in southern Alberta. Presentation: Bridging the Sciences, Mar , Montreal Schmidt, Jeremy J. Water for life or water for now? Getting to the source of water scarcity in southern Alberta. Poster: Canadian Water Network, November 20-23, Montreal. REFEREE Journal: Water Policy (2013 x 1) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2012 x 1) Society and Natural Resources (2012 x 1) Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012 x 1) Human Ecology (2011 x 1) Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2011 x 1) Les Cahiers de Droit (Canada s leading French language law journal) (2010 x 1) Policy: Broadbent Institute National Network on Environments and Women s Health SERVICE OTHER EXPERIENCE 2013-pres: Member. Centre de Recherche en Éthics de l Université de Montréal (CREUM) 2011-pres: Advisory Board, Water Ethics Network : Board of Directors. Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) : National Chair. CWRA Student and Young Professionals : Working Group. UNESCO: Water Ethics and Water Resource Management : Working Group. Canadian National Water Strategy (CWRA) : Graduate Affairs Committee, Geography, Western : Beatty Memorial Lecture Committee. McGill University : Geography Graduate Society Executive. McGill University Wildland Firefighter Alberta Sustainable Resources Development Wilderness Guide Camp Bighorn, whitewater kayaking, telemark skiing Custom Agriculture Agricore United, pesticide & fertilizer applicator Survey Rodman Crape Land Surveys, pipeline construction, oil/gas leases MEDIA Don t sell the water, Fast Forward Weekly, 11/10/2012 Understanding water policies now and in the future, Town and Country, 9/10/2012 Market-based water allocation system has drawbacks: report, Western Producer, 12/01/2012 Water scarcity a worry, Lethbridge Herald, 6/12/2011 Expanding water market in Alberta hard to swallow, Winnipeg Free Press, 5/12/2011 Turning water into money, Macleans, 7/7/2011 ( Spaces, Places and Faces, Carleton Radio (CKCU), 11/2/2010 MEMBERSHIPS Association of American Geographers Canadian Association of Geographers Network in Canadian History of the Environment (NICHE) Society for the Social Studies of Science December 2013, 7 of 7