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The Forum on Religion and Ecology is associated with numerous scholars who are specialists on the topic of religion and ecology. Each specialist has a specific foci (listed below) and is available for speaking engagements. If your college, university, or nongovernmental organization is seeking a scholar to speak at an event, consider contacting one of the scholars listed below. All scheduling, fees, and transportation arrangements should be discussed directly with the individual scholar you wish to have speak at your event.
World Religious Traditions and Ecology
Buddhism and Ecology

Stephanie Kaza University of Vermont Environmental Program 153 South Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05401 phone 1: 802.656.0172 phone 2: 802.656.4055 fax: 802.656.8015 email: Stephanie.kaza@uvm.edu	Kenneth Kraft Lehigh University Department of Religious Studies 9 West Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015 phone: 610.758.3370 fax: 610.758.4858 email: klk2@lehigh.edu
John Daido Loori Zen Mountain Monastery Box 197 South Plank Road Mt. Tremper, NY 12457 phone 1: 845.688.2228 email: doway@mro.org	Leslie E. Sponsel University of Hawaii Department of Anthropology 2424 Maile Way—Porteus 346 Honolulu, HI 96822 phone: 808.956.8507 fax: 808.956.4893 email: sponsel@hawaii.edu
Donald K. Swearer Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions 42 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 2138 email:dswearer@hds.harvard.edu	Duncan Ryuken Williams University of California at Irvine Department of East Asian Languages and Literature Irvine, CA 92697–6000 phone 1 : 949.824.1603 phone 2: 949.824.2227 fax: 949.824.3248 email: duncanw@uci.edu

Christianity and Ecology

Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis Theological Advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew email: JChryssavg@aol.com	Dieter Hessel Program on Ecology, Justice and Faith 45 Wildwood Drive Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 email: DTHessel@aol.com
Gordon Kaufman Harvard Divinity School 43 Francis Avenue Andover G–14 Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: 617.495.5777 email: gkaufman@hds.harvard.edu	Jay McDaniel Hendrix College Department of Religion Conway, AR 72032 phone 1: 501.450.1366 phone 2: 501.450.1284 (secretary) fax 1: 501.450.1200 email: mcdaniel@hendrix.edu
Sallie McFague Vancouver School of Theology 600 Iona Drive Vancouver, BC V6T 1L4 Canada phone: 604.822.9514 fax: 604.822.9121 email: smcfague@aol.com	Mark I. Wallace Associate Professor Department of Religion Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 19081 phone: 610.328.7829 fax: 610.328.7687 email: mwallac1@swarthmore.edu

Confucianism and Ecology

John Berthrong Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 phone 1: 617.353.0155 fax: 617.353.3061 email: jhb@bu.edu	Joanne Birdwhistell Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Professor Emerita, Philosophy and Asian Civilization PO Box 195 Pomona, NJ 08240¯0195 phone 1: 609.652.4550 email: birdwhij@stockton.edu
Rodney L. Taylor University of Colorado Religion Studies Department 26 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 phone 1: 303.492.2889 fax: 303.492.5777 email: Rodney.Taylor@colorado.edu	Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics 77 Prospect Street PO Box 208209 New Haven, CT 06520 email:metucker@religionandecology.org

Hinduism and Ecology

Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Department of Theological Studies 7900 Loyola Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90045–8400 phone: 310.338.2846 fax: 310.338.1947 email: cchapple@lmu.edu	Ann Grodzins Gold Syracuse University Department of Religion 501 Hall of Languages Syracuse, NY 13244–1170 phone: 315.443.5717 fax: 615.443.3958 email: aggold@syr.edu
David L. Haberman Indiana University Department of Religious Studies Sycamore Hall 230 Bloomington, IN 47405 phone: 812.855.8894 fax: 812.855.4768 email: dhaberma@indiana.edu	Vijaya Nagarajan University of San Francisco Department of Theology 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117–1080 phone: 415.422.5837 fax: 415.422.2346 email: nagarajan@usfca.edu
Vasudha Narayanan University of Florida Department of Religion 125 Dauer Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 phone: 352.392.1625 fax: 352.392.7395 email: vasu@ufl.edu	Lance Nelson University of San Diego Department of Theological and Religious Studies 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110–2492 phone: 619.260.4054 fax: 619.260.2260 email: lnelson@acusd.edu

Indigenous Traditions and Ecology

John Grim Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics 77 Prospect Street PO Box 208209 New Haven, CT 06520 email:grim@religionandecology.org	Oren R. Lyons Onondaga Nation/Haudenosaunee PO Box 200 Nedrow, NY 13120 phone: 315.492.4360 fax: 315.492.6714
Mary MacDonald LeMoyne College Religious Studies Department 1419 Salt Sprints Road Reilly Hall 221 Syracuse, NY 13214–1399 phone: 315.445.4364 fax: 315.445.4540 email: macdonal@lemoyne.edu	Victor Montejo University of California at Davis Department of Anthropology 1 Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 phone 1: 530.754.6128 email: vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
Jacob K. Olupona Harvard Divinity School Professor of African and African American Studies and Religion 42 Francis Avenue, 114 Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: 617.495.8221 fax: 617.384.9404 email: jkolupona@hds.harvard.edu	Pramod Parajuli 7802 South East Morrison Street Portland, OR 97215 email: pramodp@pdx.edu
Leslie E. Sponsel University of Hawaii Department of Anthropology 2424 Maile Way—Porteus 346 Honolulu, HI 96822 phone: 808.956.8507 fax: 808.956.4893 email: sponsel@hawaii.edu	Ines Talamantez University of California Religious Studies Department SH 4607 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone 1: 805.893.3578 phone 2: 805.893.4326 fax: 805.893.2059 email: talamantez@religion.ucsb.edu

Islam and Ecology

Frederick Denny University of Colorado Department of Religious Studies Campus Box 292 Woodbury Room 308 Boulder, CO 80309 phone: 303.492.6358 fax: 303.735.2080 email: frederick.denny@colorado.edu	Richard Foltz Concordia University Department of Religion 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 Canada phone: 514.848.2424, ext. 5730 email: rfoltz@alcor.concordia.ca
Safei-Eldin Hamed Texas Tech University College of Agriculture/Natural Resources Plant Science Building Box 42121 Lubbock, TX 79409 phone: 806.742.2858 fax: 806.798.3418 email: safei.hamed@ttu.edu	Nomanul Haq 1717 Green St. Philadelphia, PA 19130 email: nomanhaq@sas.upenn.edu
Tazim R. Kassam Syracuse University Department of Religion 501 Hall of Languages Syracuse, NY 13244–1170 phone: 315.443.5722 email: tkassam@syr.edu	Fazlun Khalid Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science PO Box 5051 Birmingham B2O 3RZ England phone: 44.212.523.4264 fax: 44.212.523.4264
Seyyed Hossein Nasr George Washington University Department of Religion Gelman Library 2130 H Street North West Room 709–R Washington, DC 20052 phone: 202.994.5704 fax: 202.994.0458 email: zsirat@gwu.edu (Zohra Sirat)

Jainism and Ecology

Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Department of Theological Studies 7900 Loyola Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90045–8400 phone: 310.338.2846 fax: 310.338.1947 email: cchapple@lmu.edu	John Cort Denison University Department of Religion Granville, OH 43023 phone: 614.587.6254 email: cort@denison.edu
Satish Kumar Resurgence Ford House, Hartland Bideford Devon EX39 6EE United Kingdom phone: 01237.441293 fax: 01237.441203 email: editor@resurgence.org	Kristi Wiley University of California at Berkeley Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies Berkeley, CA 94720 email: kristi.wiley@gmail.com

Judaism and Ecology

Barbara Lerman-Golomb (Contact for a complete List of speakers) Acting Executive Director Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) 443 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016 phone: 212-532-7436 email: info@coejl.org	Moshe Sokol Lander College for Men 75–31 150th Street Flushing, NY 11367 phone 1: 718.820.4915 phone 2: 718.820.4900 email: sokolm@touro.edu

Shinto and Ecology



Daoism and Ecology

Norman J. Girardot Lehigh University Department of Religious Studies 9 West Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015 phone: 610.758.3364 fax: 610.758.4858 email: njg0@lehigh.edu	James E. Miller Queen’s University Department of Religious Studies Theological Hall Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada phone: 613.533.6000 x 74320 fax: 613.533.6879 email: millerj@post.queensu.ca
Liu Xiaogan The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Philosophy Fung King Hey Building Shatan NT Hong Kong email: liux@cuhk.edu.hk	Joanne Birdwhistell Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Professor Emerita, Philosophy and Asian Civilization PO Box 195 Pomona, NJ 08240¯0195 phone 1: 609.652.4550 email: birdwhij@stockton.edu
Other Disciplines and Ecology

Science and Religion

Ursula Goodenough Department of Biology Washington University Box 1229 One Brooking Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 phone: 314.935.6836 fax: 314.935.5125 email: ursula@biosgi.wustl.edu

New Cosmology and Ecology

Stephen Dunn Center for Ecology and Spirituality 650 Shepherd Ave. East Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 Canada phone: 416.512.7874 email: sdunn@utoronto.ca

Environmental Ethics

J. Baird Callicott University of North Texas Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies PO Box 310920 Denton, TX 76203–0920 phone: 940.565.2266 fax: 940.565.4448 email: callicott@unt.edu	Chris Cuomo University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy PO Box 210374 Cincinnati, OH 45221–0374 phone: 513.556.6325 fax: 513.556.2939 email: cuomocj@email.uc.edu
Stephen Dunn Center for Ecology and Spirituality 650 Shepherd Ave. East Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 Canada phone: 416.512.7874 fax: 416.926.7276 email: sdunn@utoronto.ca	Dieter Hessel Program on Ecology, Justice and Faith 45 Wildwood Drive Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 email: DTHessel@aol.com
Daniel C. Maguire 2823 North Summit Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211 phone: 414.961.0139 fax: 414.961.2150 email: maguired@juno.com	Jay McDaniel Hendrix College Department of Religion Conway, AR 72032 phone 1: 501.450.1366 phone 2: 501.450.1284 (secretary) fax 1: 501.450.1200 email: mcdaniel@hendrix.edu
Patricia Mische 148 West Limestone Yellow Springs, OH 45387 phone: 937.767.6444 email: pmische@antioch-college.edu	Pramod Parajuli 7802 South East Morrison Street Portland, OR 97215 email: pramodp@pdx.edu
Bron Taylor University of Florida Department of Religion 107 Anderson Hall PO Box 117410 Gainesville, FL 32611–7410 phone: 352.392.1625, ext. 237 fax: 352.392.7395 email: bron@ufl.edu	Franklin Vilas 18 Greylawn Drive Lakewood, NJ 08701 email: revfvilas.earthlink.net
Karen Warren Macalester College Department of Philosophy 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 phone: 651.696.6172 fax: 651.696.6008 email: warren@macalester.edu

Ecofeminism

Chris Cuomo University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy PO Box 210374 Cincinnati, OH 45221–0374 phone: 513.556.6325 fax: 513.556.2939 email: cuomocj@email.uc.edu	Heather Eaton St. Paul University Department of Theology 223 Main Street Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4 Canada phone: 613.236.1393 x 2276 fax: 613.751.4016 email: heaton@ustpaul.uottawa.ca
Stephanie Kaza University of Vermont Environmental Program 153 South Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05401 phone 1: 802.656.0172 phone 2: 802.656.4055 fax: 802.656.8015 email: Stephanie.kaza@uvm.edu	Karen Warren Macalester College Department of Philosophy 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 phone: 651.696.6172 fax: 651.696.6008 email: warren@macalester.edu

Public Policy and Ecology

Donald Brown Office of Chief Counsel Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection PO Box 8464 Harrisburg, PA 17105–8464 phone: 717.783.8504 fax: 717.787.9378 email: Brown.Donald@state.pa.us	Dennis Piragis Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 phone: 301.405.4319 fax: 301.314.9690 email: dpirages@umd.edu

Population and World Religions

Daniel C. Maguire 2823 North Summit Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211 phone: 414.961.0139 fax: 414.961.2150 email: maguired@juno.com

Religion and Animals

Paul Waldau Director, Center for Animals and Public Policy Cummings Scool of Veterinary Medicine Tufts University 200 Westboro Road North Grafton, MA 01536 phone: 508.887.4671 fax: 508.839.3337 email: paul.waldau@tufts.edu	Laura Hobgood-Oster Southwestern University Department of Religion and Philosophy Georgetown, TX 78628 phone: 512.863.1669 email: hoboster@southwestern.edu
Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Department of Theological Studies 7900 Loyola Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90045–8400 phone: 310.338.2846 fax: 310.338.1947 email: cchapple@lmu.edu	Marc Bekoff Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Ramaley Hall Boulder, CO 80309 email: marc.bekoff@colorado.edu

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