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Susan A. Crate
Assistant Professor of Human Ecology
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
George Mason University
David King Hall, MS 5F2
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Va  22030-4400
Tele:  703-993-1517
FAX: 703-993-1066
E-Mail: scrate1@gmu.edu
http://mason.gmu.edu/~espp/assocfaculty.htm

My research is with Viliui Sakha, native agropastoralists who inhabit a subarctic region in northeast Siberia, Russia. I have worked with Sakha for the last decade researching questions of post-Soviet adaptive strategies, environmental justice, and facilitating sustainable locally based native economies.

Susan Crate has conducted ethnographic and environmental research across Russia since 1987, with her focus in the Viliui regions of the Sakha Republic for the last decade.

Susan is presently working on a project facilitating locally based economies founded on indigenous knowledge-ways and native practices of environmental sustainability. She is fascinated by their adaptive strategies to an extreme environment and the political changes of the last century.

Susan has extensive experience presenting for a broad cross-section of audiences ranging from scientific talks to general audience and school programs. She is interested in presenting to all audiences in the speaker series. Her lecture titles include:

1. Cows, Kin, and Future Sustainability: An Evolving Research Agenda
2. The Cultural Ecology of Subarctic Agropastoralists
3. The Environmental Plight of Viliui Sakha and Other Native Inhabitants of Russia.