Areas of Specialization

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Research, creative work, and teaching at the interface between the Natural Sciences (agriculture, renewable resources, biodiversity, ecology, and evolution) and the Humanities (philosophy, literature, art, history, sociology, economics,  political science, and religion).

Academic Appointments

2006, Department of Philosophy, University of Wyoming, Professor of

          Natural Sciences & Humanities

2006, MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Wyoming,

1996-2006, Professor of Entomology, University of Wyoming.

1997, Fellow, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

1994-1994, Visiting Fellow, Division of Botany & Zoology, Australian

National University

1991-1996, Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Wyoming

1986-1991, Assistant Professor Entomology, University of Wyoming

Education

1985          Ph.D., Louisiana State University. (Entomology).

1982          B.S., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (Biology)

Publications

Articles (selected)

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2006. The Nature of Violence. Orion. January/February: 14-19.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Halloy, S. R. P. and J. A. Lockwood. 2005. Ethical implications of the laws of pattern abundance distribution. Complexity and Organization 7: 41-53.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2005. Prayerful Science. EarthLight: Journal for Ecological and Spiritual Living. Winter, pp 14-19.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1999. Agriculture and biodiversity: finding our place in this world. Agric. Hum. Values 16: 365-379.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1997. Competing values and moral imperatives: An overview of ethical issues in biological control. Agric. Human Values 14: 205-210.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1997. The intent and implementation of the Endangered Species Act: A matter of scale. Land and Water Law Review 32: 551-569.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1996. The ethics of biological control: Understanding the moral implications of our most powerful ecological technology. Agric. Human Values 13: 2-19.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1988. Taking agricultural ethics to the forefront:  a practical guide to the organizational and philosophical issues.  Agr. and Human Values.  5:96-101.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1988. Not to harm a fly:  our ethical obligations to insects.  Between the Species.  4:204-211.

Lockwood, J. A. 1987. The moral standing of insects and the ethics of extinction.  Symposium on insects in altered habitats, Florida Entomol.  70:70-89.

Books and Chapters (selected)

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2006. A Guest of the World. Skinner House, Boston.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2004. Prairie Soul: Finding Grace in the Earth Beneath My Feet. Skinner House, Boston.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2003. Losing: Gracefully, Creatively, and Humanely (essay). Conservation in Practice,  4: 3-4.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2002. Grasshopper dreaming: Reflections on killing and loving. Skinner House, Boston, 141 pp.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2001. The ethics of “classical” biological control and the value of place, pp. 100-119. In J. A. Lockwood, F. G. Howarth, and M. F. Purcell [eds.],  Balancing nature: Assessing the impact of importing non-native biological control agents (An international perspective). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A., M. F. Purcell, and F. G. Howarth. 2001. The value of place and the place of values, pp. 1-2.  In J. A. Lockwood, F. G. Howarth, and M. F. Purcell [eds.],  Balancing nature: Assessing the impact of importing non-native biological control agents (An international perspective). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A (editor). 1997. Ethical issues in biological control. Special issue of Agriculture and Human Values. Introduction and 9 chapters, 107 pp.

Papers Presented (selected)

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Reiners, W.A. and J.A. Lockwood. 2006. Ecological theory and Zadeh's “law of incompatibility”: Incorporating contingency-based models into metatheories. Ecological Society of America, Memphis, Tennessee.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2006. Philosophy of forgiveness.  Symposium on Forgiveness: Necessary for Healing? 10^th Annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice (presentation and panel discussion), Laramie, Wyoming.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 2005. Aquinas and acridids: Waging a just war against an insect enemy. Plenary Symposium of the 9^th International Conference of the Orthopterists Society.  Canmore, Canada.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. and S. R. P. Halloy. 2004. Ethical implications of the laws of pattern abundance. Second international workshop on complexity and philosophy (sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (8 out of 50 papers chosen for presentation).

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A., A. T. Showler, and A. V. Latchininsky. 2001. Can we make locust and grasshopper control sustainable?  Symposium on Pest Management at the International Conference on Orthopteroid Insects, Montpellier, France.

 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lockwood, J. A. 1999. “Killing them softly”, Albert Schweitzer Sermon, Unitarian Universalist Association, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Courses

Undergraduate (frequently taught)

·               Natural Resource Ethics

·               Environmental Ethics (seminar)

·               Nature Writing

Recent Graduate Seminars

·               Deep Ecology

·               Environmental Justice

·               Humans & Nature (Thoreau and Leopold)