Research Associate
National Zoological Park
Smithsonian Institution
1500 Remount Road
Front Royal VA 22630
Email: christenc at si.edu
Current Research Projects
History of Conservation and Development on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, 1934-2005 Curriculum development and implementation, “¡Cuidando los Animales!: A Zoo Science Education Program for Latino Students in the Shenandoah Valley" 5th-7th grades
Recent Publications
C. Wemmer and C. Christen, eds. Elephants and Ethics. The Johns Hopkins University Press,Spring 2008
P. Leimgruber, C. Christen, and A. Laborderie, “The Impact of Landsat Monitoring on Conservation Biology.” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2005, (106) 81-1001.
C. Christen and L. Mighetto, "Introduction: Environmental History as Public History", The Public Historian, (26:1)2004 pp. 9-19.
C. Christen. “At Home in the Field: Smithsonian Tropical Science Field Stations in the U. S. Panama Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama.” Americas, (58: 4) April 2002, 537-575.
---------- and J. Allen. A Vested Interest: BSP Experiences with Developing and Managing Grant Portfolios. Washington, D.C.: Biodiversity Support Program, 2001.
B. Wyckoff-Baird, A. Kaus, C. Christen, and M. Keck. Shifting the Power: Decentralization and Biodiversity Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Biodiversity Support Program, 2001.
N. K. Diamond, M. Cox , C. Christen. Positive Reinforcements: A Review of Some of BSP’s Experiences with Building Capacity for Conservation. Washington, D.C., BSP: 2000.
C. Christen, S. Herculano, K. Hochstetler, R. Prell, M. Price, and J.T. Roberts. "Latin American Environmentalism: Comparative Views." Studies in Comparative International Development, 1999.
S. W. de Groot, C. Christen, and F. Knight. "Maroon Societies," Chapter 5, Vol. III, General History of the Caribbean, London: UNESCO/MacMillan, 1997.
----------. "Tropical Field Ecology and Conservation Initiatives on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica," in Twentieth Century Science Beyond the Metropolis, Paris: UNESCO, 1995.
----------. "Development and Conservation on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, 1937-1977: A Regional Case Study of Historical Land Use Policy and Practice in a Small Neotropical Country." Ph.D. Dissertation, UMI, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.
----------. “‘We Miners Say We Have No Nationality’: Photographs from Milton Rogovin's ‘Global Family of Miners’," Labor's Heritage, 7:1 (Summer 1995), 22-51
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