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Gary
Paul Nabhan, CSE’s
First Director
 Gary
Nabhan builds teams which bring a wealth of experience, talent,
energy, and passion to the projects of the Center for Sustainable
Environments at Northern Arizona University. Among his many
accomplishments during his years of studying and living in the
Southwest, Nabhan co-founded the non-profit conservation group Native
Seeds/SEARCH, spearheaded the Ironwood Alliance (responsible for
research and public support that led to a 120,000 acre Ironwoods
Forest National Monument), and initiated the Traditional Native
American Farmers' Association. For such cross-cultural collaborations,
he has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology. Nabhan
crosses disciplinary, linguistic and ethnic boundaries with apparent
ease, an essential skill for someone who lives and works among many
different communities in the Southwest.
 In his position as the first Director of CSE, Nabhan is responsible
for coordinating an expanding array of environmentally oriented
programs and initiatives which bridge the NAU campus with the
surrounding region. He is also a tenured professor in Applied
Indigenous Studies and the Center for Environmental Sciences and
Education, and helps to oversee the Graduate Certificate program in
Conservation Ecology. Nabhan's writing is widely anthologized and
translated, and has won the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, a
Western States Book Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.
Bibliography of major works by
Gary Paul Nabhan.
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