NANCY LANGSTON
37980 S. Entry Rd, Chassell MI 49916 USA
+1-608-852-6031
[email protected]
@nancylangston
http://www.nancylangston.net/art.html
BRIEF BIO
Nancy Langston is an interdisciplinary visual artist and ecological historian whose work explores climate change in the far north. Her paintings engage closely with her scientific research on climate tipping points and their potential effects on northern watersheds. She is Distinguished Professor at Michigan Technological University and author of five books. She has been the recipient of fellowships from The Arctic Circle Residency, University of Stavanger’s Greenhouse Center for the Environmental Humanities (visual arts), the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Environmental Studies, Landscape Change focus, PhD, 1994
University of Oxford, English, MPhil, 1986
Dartmouth College, English, BA 1984
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2013-on Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
1995-2013 Environmental Humanities Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies . University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard (accepted 3/22 for the June 2024 expedition).
2023 The Fish Factory, Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland.
2022 Green Transitions Fellow (Visual Arts), U. of Stavanger, Norway.
1993 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
1992 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP AND SOLO)
2023 Tipping Points: Lake Superior Paintings in a Time of Climate Change solo exhibition, The Well Read Raccoon, Houghton MI [4/15-5/15]
2023 “That Face! Portraits Both Human & Animal” Juried Exhibition, McCord Gallery, Palos Park, IL
2023 New Horizons: Landscapes 2023, 6th Annual Exhibition, Three Square Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado [juried by Lynn Thorpe].
2023 Animal Portraiture, Wild Heart Gallery [juried by Sara Soward; virtual].
2023 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock.
2023 Climate Changing, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
AWARDS for INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL and ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES
2022 Greenhouse Green Transitions Fellowship for Visual Arts
2021 American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar Award
2020 Fulbright Award, Canadian Research Chair in Sustainability Solutions, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario
2019 Mellon Fellow in Environmental Humanities, U. of Oregon
2018 Appointed to the inaugural group of Distinguished Professors at Michigan Tech
2018 American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Service Award
2014 Honorary Doctorate, Umeå University Sweden
2012 King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship, Umeå University Sweden
2009 Winner, Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article published in Environmental History
2007 American Society for Environmental History, elected President
2007 Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer
1997 Forest History Society Weyerhaeuser Book Prize for Forest Dreams
COLLECTIONS (COMMISSIONED WORK)
2022 Two paintings on permanent exhibition, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger, Norway
2022 Private collection, acrylic painting, Jill Fisher and Casey Huckins, Hancock MI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Faith Morrison, Hancock MI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Dave Dempsey, Traverse City MI
2021 Private collection, acrylic painting, Liz Wyant, Cinncinati OH
Private collection, 2 acrylic paintings, Nancy Jacobs, Providence RI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Sara Gregg, Indianapolis IN
Private collection, acrylic painting, Kathleen Brosnan, Oklahoma City OK
Private collection, acrylic painting, Maxine Campbell, Herbster WI
Private collection, 2 acrylic paintings, Lynne Heasley, Kalamazoo MI
2020 Private collection, acrylic painting, Tracy Kuczinski, Madison WI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Lawrence Goodman, Greenwich CT
Private collection, acrylic painting, Patti Haines, Venice FL
RECENT GRANTS
Over $1,200,000 in competitive research funding in the environmental humanities including two major National Science Foundation Research Grants; specific details on request.
PUBLICATIONS
Books (5 single authored)
2021 Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene. Brandeis U Press.
2017 Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. Yale U. Press.
2010 Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES and Yale U. Press.
2003 Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. U of Washington Press
1995 Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. U of Washington Press. Winner of 1997 Forest History Society Prize.
Other Publications
Langston is author of 52 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and book chapters, in addition to 35 journalism pieces. Full details are here and and pdf copies are available on request.
MEDIA COVERAGE (SELECTED; PAST 5 YEARS)
2022 Greenhouse (U of Stavanger, Norway), tinyurl.com/2p88w6n9
2022 Kerri Clement on Nancy Langston, Climate Ghosts: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57276
2022 The Greenhouse: book talk with Nancy Langston, August 2022: https://www.uis.no/nb/the-greenhouse/ressurser/greenhouse-online-book-talk-nancy-langston-climate-ghosts
2022 Gary Wilson, Jan 13, 2022, “To Save More Great Lakes Species, Treat Them Like Kin,” https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/climate-ghosts-author/
2022 Vincent Onyango, review of Climate Ghosts, 28 April 2022 in ORYX: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605322000072
2022 Tina Loo, review of Climate Ghosts, Dec. 2022, Isis: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722411
2022 Podcast interview: “Is Climate Change a Caribou Cop Out?” Interlochen Public Radio: https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/podcast/points-north/2022-09-16/is-climate-change-a-caribou-cop-out
2022 Lake Superior Climate Collaborate Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9NUUX-ess8
2022 Dan Robinson, “Hope in the Long and Short Run: A Conversation with Nancy Langston,” https://www.glspirit.com/post/conversation-with-dr-nancy-langston
2022 Amit Baishy and Priya Kumara, review of Langston in “Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman,” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2022.2071724
2022 Edge Effects, Katrina Philips (Anishinabe) on Langston, Sustaining Lake Superior:, and anti-colonial syllabi: https://edgeeffects.net/anticolonial-environmental-syllabus/
2021 New Books Network, Interview with Stentor Danielson, Dec. 10, 2021, https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/interview-nancy-langston-author-climate-ghosts-migratory-species-anthropocene-0
2021 Langston on Climate Ghosts, Audible Podcast: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nancy-Langston-Climate-Ghosts-Migratory-Species-in-the-Anthropocene-Brandeis-UP-2021-Podcast/B09KZL3YV4
2021 FLOW: For the Love of Water, Nov 2021, interview with Nancy Langston: https://forloveofwater.org/can-we-save-and-restore-the-great-lakes-watersheds-iconic-species-in-climate-ghosts-nancy-langston-provides-an-answer/
2021 Interview with Nancy Langston, American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOuacD3lbvg
2021 The Well-Read Naturalist on Climate Ghosts: https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2021/12/climate-ghosts/
2019 Edge Effects, “Where Land, Water, and Militants Meet: A Conversation with Nancy Langston” https://edgeeffects.net/nancy-langston-interview/
2019 WXPR (Wisconsin public radio) interview with Mackenzie Martin, https://www.wxpr.org/natural-resources/2019-07-12/sustaining-lake-superior-in-an-uncertain-future
2019 Podcast with Mardi Dickinson, Bird Calls Radio: https://birdcallsradio.com/bcr-167-nancy-langston-sustaining-lake-superior/
2018 Langston, TEDX Talk, Lake Superior’s Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_DoYCyGZM
2017 Wisconsin Public Radio, “Lake Superior’s History Offers Learning Opportunity for Future Conservation Efforts” https://www.boreal.org/2017/11/09/159839/lake-superior-s-history-offers-learning-opportunity-for-future-conservation-efforts
AFFILIATIONS
Copper Country Community Arts Council, Hancock MI, member
Keweenaw Land Trust, Vice President of Board of Directors
American Society for Environmental Historians, member, past president and council, on fundraising committee
Michigan Humanities Council, judge for 2020 community awards
37980 S. Entry Rd, Chassell MI 49916 USA
+1-608-852-6031
[email protected]
@nancylangston
http://www.nancylangston.net/art.html
BRIEF BIO
Nancy Langston is an interdisciplinary visual artist and ecological historian whose work explores climate change in the far north. Her paintings engage closely with her scientific research on climate tipping points and their potential effects on northern watersheds. She is Distinguished Professor at Michigan Technological University and author of five books. She has been the recipient of fellowships from The Arctic Circle Residency, University of Stavanger’s Greenhouse Center for the Environmental Humanities (visual arts), the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Environmental Studies, Landscape Change focus, PhD, 1994
University of Oxford, English, MPhil, 1986
Dartmouth College, English, BA 1984
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2013-on Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
1995-2013 Environmental Humanities Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies . University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard (accepted 3/22 for the June 2024 expedition).
2023 The Fish Factory, Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland.
2022 Green Transitions Fellow (Visual Arts), U. of Stavanger, Norway.
1993 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
1992 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula California.
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP AND SOLO)
2023 Tipping Points: Lake Superior Paintings in a Time of Climate Change solo exhibition, The Well Read Raccoon, Houghton MI [4/15-5/15]
2023 “That Face! Portraits Both Human & Animal” Juried Exhibition, McCord Gallery, Palos Park, IL
2023 New Horizons: Landscapes 2023, 6th Annual Exhibition, Three Square Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado [juried by Lynn Thorpe].
2023 Animal Portraiture, Wild Heart Gallery [juried by Sara Soward; virtual].
2023 Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock.
2023 Climate Changing, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
AWARDS for INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL and ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES
2022 Greenhouse Green Transitions Fellowship for Visual Arts
2021 American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar Award
2020 Fulbright Award, Canadian Research Chair in Sustainability Solutions, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario
2019 Mellon Fellow in Environmental Humanities, U. of Oregon
2018 Appointed to the inaugural group of Distinguished Professors at Michigan Tech
2018 American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Service Award
2014 Honorary Doctorate, Umeå University Sweden
2012 King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship, Umeå University Sweden
2009 Winner, Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article published in Environmental History
2007 American Society for Environmental History, elected President
2007 Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer
1997 Forest History Society Weyerhaeuser Book Prize for Forest Dreams
COLLECTIONS (COMMISSIONED WORK)
2022 Two paintings on permanent exhibition, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger, Norway
2022 Private collection, acrylic painting, Jill Fisher and Casey Huckins, Hancock MI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Faith Morrison, Hancock MI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Dave Dempsey, Traverse City MI
2021 Private collection, acrylic painting, Liz Wyant, Cinncinati OH
Private collection, 2 acrylic paintings, Nancy Jacobs, Providence RI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Sara Gregg, Indianapolis IN
Private collection, acrylic painting, Kathleen Brosnan, Oklahoma City OK
Private collection, acrylic painting, Maxine Campbell, Herbster WI
Private collection, 2 acrylic paintings, Lynne Heasley, Kalamazoo MI
2020 Private collection, acrylic painting, Tracy Kuczinski, Madison WI
Private collection, acrylic painting, Lawrence Goodman, Greenwich CT
Private collection, acrylic painting, Patti Haines, Venice FL
RECENT GRANTS
Over $1,200,000 in competitive research funding in the environmental humanities including two major National Science Foundation Research Grants; specific details on request.
PUBLICATIONS
Books (5 single authored)
2021 Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene. Brandeis U Press.
2017 Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. Yale U. Press.
2010 Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES and Yale U. Press.
2003 Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. U of Washington Press
1995 Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. U of Washington Press. Winner of 1997 Forest History Society Prize.
Other Publications
Langston is author of 52 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and book chapters, in addition to 35 journalism pieces. Full details are here and and pdf copies are available on request.
MEDIA COVERAGE (SELECTED; PAST 5 YEARS)
2022 Greenhouse (U of Stavanger, Norway), tinyurl.com/2p88w6n9
2022 Kerri Clement on Nancy Langston, Climate Ghosts: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57276
2022 The Greenhouse: book talk with Nancy Langston, August 2022: https://www.uis.no/nb/the-greenhouse/ressurser/greenhouse-online-book-talk-nancy-langston-climate-ghosts
2022 Gary Wilson, Jan 13, 2022, “To Save More Great Lakes Species, Treat Them Like Kin,” https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/climate-ghosts-author/
2022 Vincent Onyango, review of Climate Ghosts, 28 April 2022 in ORYX: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605322000072
2022 Tina Loo, review of Climate Ghosts, Dec. 2022, Isis: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722411
2022 Podcast interview: “Is Climate Change a Caribou Cop Out?” Interlochen Public Radio: https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/podcast/points-north/2022-09-16/is-climate-change-a-caribou-cop-out
2022 Lake Superior Climate Collaborate Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9NUUX-ess8
2022 Dan Robinson, “Hope in the Long and Short Run: A Conversation with Nancy Langston,” https://www.glspirit.com/post/conversation-with-dr-nancy-langston
2022 Amit Baishy and Priya Kumara, review of Langston in “Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman,” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2022.2071724
2022 Edge Effects, Katrina Philips (Anishinabe) on Langston, Sustaining Lake Superior:, and anti-colonial syllabi: https://edgeeffects.net/anticolonial-environmental-syllabus/
2021 New Books Network, Interview with Stentor Danielson, Dec. 10, 2021, https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/interview-nancy-langston-author-climate-ghosts-migratory-species-anthropocene-0
2021 Langston on Climate Ghosts, Audible Podcast: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nancy-Langston-Climate-Ghosts-Migratory-Species-in-the-Anthropocene-Brandeis-UP-2021-Podcast/B09KZL3YV4
2021 FLOW: For the Love of Water, Nov 2021, interview with Nancy Langston: https://forloveofwater.org/can-we-save-and-restore-the-great-lakes-watersheds-iconic-species-in-climate-ghosts-nancy-langston-provides-an-answer/
2021 Interview with Nancy Langston, American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOuacD3lbvg
2021 The Well-Read Naturalist on Climate Ghosts: https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2021/12/climate-ghosts/
2019 Edge Effects, “Where Land, Water, and Militants Meet: A Conversation with Nancy Langston” https://edgeeffects.net/nancy-langston-interview/
2019 WXPR (Wisconsin public radio) interview with Mackenzie Martin, https://www.wxpr.org/natural-resources/2019-07-12/sustaining-lake-superior-in-an-uncertain-future
2019 Podcast with Mardi Dickinson, Bird Calls Radio: https://birdcallsradio.com/bcr-167-nancy-langston-sustaining-lake-superior/
2018 Langston, TEDX Talk, Lake Superior’s Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_DoYCyGZM
2017 Wisconsin Public Radio, “Lake Superior’s History Offers Learning Opportunity for Future Conservation Efforts” https://www.boreal.org/2017/11/09/159839/lake-superior-s-history-offers-learning-opportunity-for-future-conservation-efforts
AFFILIATIONS
Copper Country Community Arts Council, Hancock MI, member
Keweenaw Land Trust, Vice President of Board of Directors
American Society for Environmental Historians, member, past president and council, on fundraising committee
Michigan Humanities Council, judge for 2020 community awards
