Stephen R. Kellert
Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban EcologyDegrees
B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University
About
Professor Kellert’s work focuses on understanding the connection between human and natural systems with a particular interest in the value and conservation of nature and designing ways to harmonize the natural and human built environments.
His awards include the National Conservation Achievment Award (1997, NWF); Distinguished Individual Achievement Award (Society for Conservation Biology, 1990); Best Publication of the Year Award (International Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1985);Special Achievement Award (NWF, 1983); Fulbright Research award; as well as being included among 300 individuals listed in \“American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present.\” He has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, is a member of IUCN Species Survival Commission Groups, and has been a member of the board of directors of many organizations.
He has authored more than 100 publications, including the following books:
Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development (Island Press, 1997)
The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society (Island Press,1996)
The Biophilia Hypothesis (edited with E. O. Wilson, Island Press,1993)
The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World (edited with T. Farnham, Island Press, 2002)
Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations (edited with P. H. Kahn, Jr., MIT Press, 2002)
Building for Life: Understanding and Designing the Human-Nature Connection, (Island Press, 2005)
