Curriculum Vitae: OlsonV_CV2024 short
Selected Publications
Books:
2024. Peterson, K. and V. Olson. The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design. Duke University Press.
2018. Olson, V.A. Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Articles and Policy Pubs:
2023: Olson, VA. Refielding in More-than-Terran Spaces, in, Salazar and Gorman, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space.
2022. Olson, VA. Ecological Wartime. in B. Guarasci and E. Kim, eds. Ecologies of War. Society for Cultural Anthropology.
2019: Olson, VA, Perez-Reyes, M., et al. Santa Ana River Watershed Community Water Experiences: An Ethnographic Strengths and Needs Assessment. SAWPA.
2018. Olson, V.A. Unbounding the Field/Note. Cultural Anthropology – Theorizing the Contemporary.
2015. Olson, V.A. and Messeri, L. R. “Beyond the Anthropocene: UnEarthing an Epoch.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research. 6: 28–47
2015 Battaglia, D., D. Valentine, and V. A. Olson. “Relational Space: An Earthly Installation.” Cultural Anthropology. 30(2), 245 – 256.
2013 Olson, V.A. “NEOspace: the Solar System’s Emerging Environmental History and Politics.” In Jørgenson, F.A., D. Jørgensen and S. Pritchard eds., New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies. Pp. 195 – 211 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
2012 Olson, V.A. “Political Ecology in the Extreme: Asteroid Activism and the Making of an Environmental Solar System.” Anthropological Quarterly, 85(4), 1027-1044.
2012 Valentine, D., V. A. Olson, and D. Battaglia. “Extreme: Limits and Horizons of the Once and Future Cosmos.” Anthropological Quarterly, 85(4), 1007-1026.
2010 Olson, V.A. “The Ecobiopolitics of Space Biomedicine.” Medical Anthropology, 29(2), 170- 193.