Chris D. Loy
Center for Sustainability in Education - Honors Program - Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
Senior Lecturer
Luter Hall 149
(757) 594-7785
christopher.loy@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Anthropology, Binghamton University
- MA in Anthropology, Binghamton University
- BA in Anthropology, Colorado College
Teaching
Environment, Culture, & Society; Cultural Anthropology; Human Adaptation; Language and Culture; Japanese Popular Culture.
Research
Environmental anthropology, socio-ecological systems, marine cultures, indigenous peoples, place and identity.
Biography
I was born in Muscatine, Iowa. Attended Colorado College as an undergraduate. Attended SUNY Binghamton for graduate school. Now I work for CNU as a lecturer in anthropology and sociology.
Selected Accomplishments
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2022). Introduction: Is Female to Male as NGO is to State?. Berghahn Books. -
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2022). Surviving the State: Strategic Essentialisms and the Complexities of Indigeneity among the Ainu of Northern Japan. Berghahn Books. Pages, 50-73. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2018). Primary Integration Outcomes in a Newly Resettled Bhutanese Refugee Community. International Social Work. Pages, 17. -
Research Report
(2017). Ethnographic Overview and Assessment: Antietam National Battlefield. National Park Service. Pages, 270. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2015). Cultivating Ezo: Indigenous Innovation and Ecological Change during Japan’s Bakumatsu Era. Asian Ethnology.
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "Modelling Socio-Ecological Systems: Bridging the Qualitative/Quantitative Divide," Salt Lake City. (2022)
- Christopher Loy, IMP Network Annual Meeting, "Treading Softly: Building an Interdisciplinary Studies Major in a Time of Transition in Higher Education," Virtual. (2022)
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "Engineering sustainability-managing catastrophe in the Chesapeake Bay," Norfolk, VA and virtual. (2021)
- Christopher Loy, Chesapeake Requiem Series, "Stories from the Liars Bench: African American Seafood Workers on the Chesapeake Bay," Suffolk, VA. (2020)
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "Industrializing the Oyster: the cultural logic of genetic manipulation in Chesapeake Bay Oysters," Albuquerque, NM. (2020)
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "The Farmer and the Fisher: The Social Costs of Aquaculture Expansion on the Chesapeake Bay," Portland, Oregon. (2019)
- Andria Timmer, Christopher Loy, John Finn, Talks on Tap, "The Battle of Antietam: Then and Now," Suffolk, VA. (2019)
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, "Economic Racialization in the Seafood Industry on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland," Philadelphia, PA. (2018)
- Christopher Loy, Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meeting, "Movement and “Paralysis” among Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Refugees," Richmond, VA. (2017)
- Christopher Loy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, "The Chesapeake Bay: a socio-environmental system in flux," Vancouver, Canada. (2016)
- Christopher Loy, Colorado College Series on Asian Studies and the Environment, "Crashing Ecologies: Indigenous Responses to Environmental Disruption in Northern Japan," Colorado Springs, CO. (2015)
- Christopher Loy, Andria Timmer, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, "When History Bleeds Through: Addressing Affective Connections to Antietam National Battlefield," Pittsburgh, PA. (2015)
- Christopher Loy, Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meeting, "Habitus and Environmental Change: cultural tradition and transition in watermen communities along Virginia’s Eastern Shore," Norfolk, VA. (2015)
- Christopher Loy, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, "Interview with an Ainu Shaman: Grounding Post-National Rights in the Spirit World," Chicago, IL. (2013)
- Christopher Loy, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, "Bureaucratic Indigenism in Japan," San Francisco, CA. (2012)
- Christopher Loy, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast 2012, "The Rise of Bureaucratic Indigenism," Spokane, WA. (2012)