Ian is an environmental anthropologist affiliated with the University of California, San Diego. He studies interactions between people and the environment, conservation, ethics and social development across the Asia-Pacific rim. His dissertation investigates social aspects of natural resource management and eco-tourism in the biodiversity hotspot of the Raja Ampat islands of eastern Indonesia. In 2012, and in 2014 and 2015 he conducted ethnographic fieldwork into parallels and differences between exogenous and local marine conservation practices, working in collaboration with the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (LIPI) and the State University of West Papua (UNIPA), with additional support from a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Ian has also consulted for the World Bank in Asia-Pacific, and worked for the US-Indonesia Society and Smithsonian Institution. He is currently a Foreign Service officer on diplomatic assignment with the US Department of State in Mexico. Ian holds a CPhil and MA in Anthropology from UC San Diego, a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, and a BA in Anthropology from Reed College.
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Ethics, Environmental Anthropology, Conservation, Interethnic Relations, Tourism, Social-ecological System, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Human-environment Relations, Religion, Seascapes, Cosmology, Governance, Marine Biodiversity

Environmental sciences
Anthropology

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)

Indonesia
Irian Jaya Barat (Indonesia)
Papua (Indonesia)

Melanesia
Polynesia
West Papua

The Colonial time
21st century

Indonesian, Malay, Papuan, Waigeo