Departments

• Environmental Studies
• Native American Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nas/faculty/ranco.html

Contact Information

Email: darren.j.ranco@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603 646-0578
Office: 6152 Sherman House

Education

B.A. Dartmouth College; MSEL Vermont Law School; M.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

Native American political action and government; Native American law and environments, Indigenous anthropology and research ethics

Selected Works

• "The Indian Ecologist and the Politics of Representation: Critiquing the Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide," in Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment, M Harkin and D R Lewis (eds.), (2006).
• "Toward a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing from Within," Wicazo Sa Review, 21:2 (2006) 92-119.
• "Tribal Environmental Sovereignty: Cultural Appropriate Protection or Paternalism?" with A Fleder, Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, 19:1 (2005) 35-58.
• "Ethics and Regulation in American Indian Environments: Embracing Autonomy and the Environmental Citizen," in War and Border Crossings: Ethics When Cultures Clash, P French and J Short (eds.), (2005) 239-253.
• "Northeastern Native Americans," in The Native North American Almanac, Second Edition, D Champagne (ed.), (2001) 267-276.
• "Environmental Risk, Fish Consumption, and American Indians: Exploring the Logic of Genocide," Bad Subjects, 55 (May 2001) 9-12.

Current Projects

"Power and Knowledge in Regulating American Indian Environments: The Trust Responsibility. Limited Sovereignty, and the Problem of Difference;" "Arctic Change: Creating a Dialog Between the Academy, Northern Peoples, and Policy Makers;" "Towards a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing From Within;" "Tribal Sovereignty and the Problem of Difference in Environmental Regulation: Observations on 'Measured Separatism' in Indian Country"