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![David Havlick, PhD](/sites/default/files/styles/webp/public/2021-01/d_havlick_440.jpg.webp?itok=BoioXEVL)
Columbine Hall, rm. 2015
Areas of Interest
- Ecological Restoration, Ethics, and Policy
- Conservation and Public Land
- Sustainability
- Military Geographies
- Political Ecology
- Critical Geography
Education
- PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
- MS, Environmental Studies, University of Montana, 1992
- AB, English, Dartmouth College, 1987
Courses Taught
- World Regional Geography
- Conservation and U.S. Public Lands
- Restoration Geographies
- Militarization, Environment, and Society
- Introduction to Environmental Studies and Sustainability
- Cultural and Political Ecology
- Qualitative Methods in Geography
- Geographic Thought
Honors and Awards
- 2019-2022: National Science Foundation research grant, Science and Technology Studies: "Wild Trout: Conservation, Restoration, and the Molecular Turn," (with co-PI Christine Biermann), $208,988.
- 2019 Colorado Book Award finalist for general non-fiction (Bombs Away)
- 2018 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers, Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration.
- 2015-2020: Joint Venture Agreement with USDA-Forest Service, "Palliative Nature: Long-Distance Outdoor Experiences as Therapy for PTSD," (with co-PIs Lee Cerveny and Monika Derrien), $23,998.
- 2016: UCCS Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
- 2015: UCCS Global Intercultural Research Center seed grant, "Commemoration and Reuse of Militarized Sites in Japan," $3,880.
- 2014: UCCS LAS Outstanding Research and Creative Works Award
- 2013: American Geographic Society, McColl Family Fellowship
- 2010-2014: National Science Foundation research grant, Science and Technology Studies: "Authenticity and Historical Fidelity in Ecological Restoration," (with co-PI Marion Hourdequin), $244,881
Volunteer and Service
- UCCS Sustainability Committee
- LAS Representative, UCCS Faculty Assembly
- Stormwater Advisory Committee, City of Colorado Springs
- Board Member, Catamount Center for Geography of the Southern Rockies
Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications
Havlick explores demilitarized zones in new book