I’m interested in the entanglement of seemingly disparate ideas and how they smash together and then separate but are forever connected by that coming together. My academic and professional work integrates adventure and outdoor education, sustainable tourism, and women's human rights and empowerment. I emphasize a theoretical approach of new materialist and posthumanist methodologies. As a visual artist, I examine concepts of embodied experience and process in both oil and watercolor paintings. This website contains the content of my work highlighting my research in Nepal and my doctoral dissertation, Process and Emergence: A Topographic Ethnography of the Embodiment of Place and Adventure Tourism in Khumbu, Nepal. Currently, I am full faculty at Prescott College. Check out my research focus here.
This website merges my disciplines of art, research, teaching, and writing.
I am a researcher and educator with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing a wide variety of innovative learning and leadership programs to enhance solution-driven outcomes. Extensive qualitative research experience in both field and reference-based projects.
A critical thinker with the ability to understand and synthesize complex information into effective and engaging strategies that support learning objectives and outcomes. Extensive research and experience in ethnography and environmental humanities with a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education. Self-motivated and creative; comfortable in a fast-moving, collaborative, and ambiguous environment.
As an academic, I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher with an emphasis on environmental humanities, sustainability, and new materialist methodologies. My work examines more-than-human agency through an embodied awareness of place, confronting both anthropogenic and colonizing narratives. I am not tied to the academy, however, and believe the work of academics can make far more of a difference beyond the ivory tower.
Former outdoor/adventure educator and rock climber. I was lucky to see the world many times over through my work with World Challenge Expeditions and graduate research at Prescott College. Those experiences have shaped me into the interdisciplinary educator, researcher, and artist that I am today.
I am also a writer and visual artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking, a degree path I chose when I was 16 years old, graduating high school early. Being an artist, along with my creativity, shapes the work that I do and the way I think. I really am interdisciplinary in work, education, and life!
Email: brittlestar.art@gmail.com
Mary A. Jackson, Ph.D.