Jane Calderbank

Background

About Jane Calderbank

I am a Doctoral Fellow with Leadership for the Ecozoic, a transdisciplinary learning community that works to enable the emergence of the Ecozoic, a mutually-enhancing human/ecosphere relationship. I have a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Reed College, where I received multiple commendations for excellence, and I am currently pursuing a PhD in anthropology at McGill University. My core competencies include writing, copy editing, proofreading, and conducting ethnographic research on environmental and social issues. As a doctoral fellow, I collaborate with scholars, activists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to explore and enact the Ecozoic vision. I have published and presented my research on multimodal approaches to anthropology and ecology, riparian encounters with salmon, and the role of imagination in environmental care. I am passionate about creating alternative, resilient, and inclusive epistemological spaces that challenge the dominant paradigms of Western academe. ​Jane Calderbank is pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at McGill University. Jane previously studied social Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, concentrating on Science, Environment, and Technology studies. Her thesis, Springtime Dwelling: The Poetics of Pacific Northwest Salmon (2021), examines the spatiotemporal aspects of Spring Chinook salmon; namely, Jane elaborates cyclical and seasonal relation between fish, people, and the riverscape. Jane continues to sense how creativity and stochasticity coalesce in the continual re-making of rivers in the Pacific Northwest. Her ongoing project addresses wildness, infrastructure, and ecological grief in understanding the semiotic-poetic emergence of the salmonid “real.” Her research is generative, grounded in a practice of memory and imagination. Jane is an absurdist (long-distance) hiker and trail runner; she loves to play with her own sense of scale whilst negotiating the mountainous textures of her home landscape.