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Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Ph.D
Associate Professor
of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3001
Ph: 607-255-9757
Fx: 607-255-0349
e.mail:
ksk28@cornell.edu
website
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Karim-Aly S. Kassam
Ph.D. – Cornell University, USA – 2005
M.Sc. – London School of Economics, UK – 1993
M.Phil. – University of Cambridge, UK – 1992
B.A. – University of Calgary, Canada – 1987
Karim-Aly Kassam works in partnership with Native communities in the Alaskan, Canadian and Russian Arctic and Sub-Arctic; the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan; and the rainforest in the south of India. Dr. Kassam focuses his applied research on the complex connectivity of human and environmental relations addressing issues such as indigenous ways of knowing, sustainable livelihoods, gender relations, and socio-cultural change.
Research
Applied participatory action research in the service of communities – This includes interdisciplinary areas of focus including: Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Human Ecology, Arctic Social Science, Natural Resource Policy, Social Policy, Community Economic Development and Socio-cultural History of Muslim Societies. Specific topics of research interest include: relationship between biological and cultural diversity, climate change, indigenous land and marine use, gender analysis and women’s empowerment.
Teaching
• Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge
• Bio-Cultural Diversity Conservation
• American Indian Studies
Selected Publications
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2009. Bio-Cultural Diversity and Ways of Knowing: Re-Thinking Human Ecology in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly (editor). 2008. Understanding Terror: Canadian Perspectives. University of Toronto Press. In press.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2007. “Fière: Effective Practices in Self-Help Institutions” Journal of Arts, University of Mysore. Forthcoming.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. “Human Ecology.” Encyclopeadia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. Pp. 892-896.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. “Hunting, Subsistence.” Encyclopeadia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. Pp. 899-902.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly and Wisdom Tettey. 2003. “Academics as Citizens – Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 24(1): 155-174.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly, George Melnyk, and Lynne Perras (editors). 2002. Canada and September 11th: Impact and Responses. Calgary: Detselig.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2001. “Life North of 60?: Homeland or Frontier?” In Passion for Identity: Canadian Studies for the 21st Century. Scarborough: Nelson Thompson Learning. Pp. 433-455.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre. 2001. So That Our Voices Are Heard: Forest Use and Changing Gender Roles of Dene Women in Hay River, Northwest Territories. Calgary: CIDA-Shastri Partnership Programme.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Wainwright Traditional Council. 2001. Passing on the Knowledge: Mapping Human Ecology in Wainwright, Alaska. Calgary: Arctic Institute of North America.
- Robinson, Michael and Karim-Aly Kassam. 1998. Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika. Calgary: Bayeux Arts. (Translated and published in Russian 2000).
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