Dr. Emily Wakild, assistant professor in the Boise State History Department, has been awarded a $196,000 National Science Foundation award, "Comparative Histories of Scientific Conservation: Nature, Science and Society in Patagonian and Amazonian South America".
Wakild, whose interest in the topic grew out of her first book: Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice and Mexico's National Parks 1910-1940 in 2011, will focus her study on protected landscapes in South America and their collective importance. Wakild's project will advance the cause of conservation in South America into debates about land management and nature protection by re-focusing attention on how science is produced in the field.
Wakild will work in archives in Chile and Brazil and add that information to work she has previously done in Argentina.
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