Ben A. Minteer is professor of environmental ethics and conservation and the Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. He writes about conservation, the wild, zoos, and the evolution of American environmental thought. Minteer's current work explores the wilderness idea and its expression in landscape photography, from Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams to the present day.
Professor Minteer's writing has appeared in Science, Nature, PNAS, BioScience, Conservation Biology, Environmental Ethics, Slate, and Earth Island Journal, among other outlets. He has also published many books, including most recently The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation (Columbia University Press) and The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation (University of Chicago Press). His next book (co-authored with Mark Klett and Steve Pyne), Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea, will be published by Yale University Press in late 2022.
PhD, University of Vermont, 2000
Environmental ethics, history & philosophy of conservation, American environmental thought, wilderness, zoos
Five Representative Publications:
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BOOKS (published/in press)
BOOKS (in development)
EDITED JOURNALS/SERIES
SELECTED ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ESSAYS (SINCE 2013)
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
SOS 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 310 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 324 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
SOS 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 310 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 324 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 310 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 324 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
HPS 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 310 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 324 | Environmental Ethics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 324 | Environmental Ethics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
SOS 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 527 | Environ Ethics & Policy Goals |
BIO 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
HPS 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 324/PHI 310 Environmental Ethics
BIO 412 Conservation in Practice
BIO 527/SOS 527/PHI 528 Environmental Ethics and Policy Goals