Virginia M. Ullmann Professor of Natural History and the Environment, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, School of Sustainability

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Bio

Charles Redman has been committed to interdisciplinary research since as an archaeology graduate student he worked closely in the field with botanists, zoologists, geologists, art historians, and ethnographers. Redman received his BA from Harvard University, and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He taught at New York University and at SUNY-Binghamton before coming to Arizona State University in 1983. Since then, he served nine years as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, seven years as Director of the Center for Environmental Studies and, in 2004, was chosen to be the Julie Ann Wrigley Director of the newly formed Global Institute of Sustainability. From 2007-2010, Redman was the founding director of ASU’s School of Sustainability.  Redman's interests include human impacts on the environment, sustainable landscapes, rapidly urbanizing regions, urban ecology, environmental education, and public outreach. He is the author or co-author of 14 books including Explanation in Archaeology, The Rise of Civilization, People of the Tonto Rim, Human Impact on Ancient Environments and, most recently, co-edited four books:  The Archaeology of Global Change, Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, Agrarian Landscapes in Transition, and Polities and Power: Archaeological Perspectives on the Landscapes of Early States. Redman is currently working on building upon the extensive research portfolio of the Global Institute of Sustainability and teaching in the School of Sustainability which is educating a new generation of leaders through collaborative learning, transdisciplinary approaches, and problem-oriented training to address the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the 21st Century.

Research Projects:
Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics
The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration
Social Vulnerability, Water Resources and Climatic Uncertainty in Exurban Arizona Communities

Teaching:
Redman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He taught at New York University and at SUNY-Binghamton before coming to ASU in 1983. He is currently on research sabbatical until June 30, 2011.

Publications:

Brundiers, Katja, Arnim Wiek and Charles L. Redman. 2009. Real-world learning opportunities insustainability – From classroom into the real-world. Accepted in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin III and C. L. Redman.  2008. Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art46/

Liu, J., T. Dietz, S. R. Carpenter, M. Alberti, C. Folke, E. Moran, A. N. Pell, P. Deadman, T. Kratz, J. Lubcheco, E. Ostrom, Z. Ouyang, W. Provencher, C. L. Redman, S. H. Schneider, and W. W. Taylor. 2007. Complexity of coupled human and natural systems. Science 317:1513-1516.

Grimm, N. B., S. H. Faeth, N. E. Golubiewski, C. L. Redman, J. Wu, X. Bai, and J. M. Briggs. 2008. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 359:756-760.

Redman, C. L., and D. R. Foster, eds. 2008. Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological and Cultural Change, Oxford University Press, New York. 296 pp. 

Costanza, R., L. Graumlich, W. Steffen, C. Crumley, J. Dearing, K. Hibbard, R. Leemans, C. L. Redman, and D. Schimel. 2007. Sustainability or collapse: What can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature? Ambio 36(7): 522-527.

Stefanov, W., M. Netzband, and C. L. Redman, eds. 2007. Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance, and Sustainability. Springer, Berlin. 278 pp.

Falconer, Steven E. and C. L. Redman, eds. 2009. Power and Polities: Archaeological Perspectives on the Landscapes of Early States. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 277 pp.

Redman, C. L. 2005. Resilience in archaeology. American Anthropologist, 107(1): 70-77.

Redman, C. L. 1999. Human Impacts on the Ancient Environment. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 239 pp.