Gigi Berardi

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Gigi Berardi

Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley College of the Environment

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    Gigi Berardi received her BA in biology with high honors from John Muir College, University of California San Diego and her MS and PhD in Resources, Policy, and Planning from Cornell University. She holds a MA in dance (now, World Arts and Cultures) from UCLA. She taught at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, from 1994-1995, and is now professor and project director (after seven years as chair of the Department of Environmental Studies, and another recent four-year tenure) at Huxley College, Western Washington University, where she focuses on community vulnerabilities and cultural ecology around food systems. Her research and writing includes study and review of Food and Farm Systems, Native American Studies and Tribal Education, and Performing Arts. Since coming to Western, she has continued her research and writing in both environmental studies and arts but also has extended her career-long interests to increasingly blend the two fields. In her research into historical consolidation of communities that exist beyond economic or environmental carrying capacities in remote sub-arctic areas, she integrates natural resources and cultural geography with traditional music and dance. In addition to having served as a core faculty member in the Tribal Environmental and Natural Resources Management (TENRM) program, she completed work on a special issue on Alaska natural resources and Native land claims for Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law. A trilogy of three co-authored articles on resilience in the US food system has been published in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, and Human Ecology Review. Her work on Native dance and arts Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, and Human Ecology Review. Her work on Native dance and arts as subsistence resources has appeared in publications such as Dance Magazine and The Anchorage Daily News. She continues to serve as assistant editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science and contribution writer and editor for Dance Magazine. Her most recent work is the popularly- and academically-acclaimed FoodWISE: A Whole Systems Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Food Choices. Information on her work and this publication can be found at https://wp.wwu.edu/gigiberardi/

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    Research Interests

    • Community vulnerabilities
    • Cultural ecology
    • Sustainable and delicious food choices

    Disciplines

    • Dance
    • Environmental Law
    • Environmental Sciences
    • Natural Resources Management and Policy
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