Rachel havrelock bio

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  • Rachel Havrelock is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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    Rachel Havrelock

    Rachel Havrelock is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also directs The Freshwater Lab, an environmental humanities initiative focused on the North American Great Lakes and environmental justice.

    The Freshwater Lab is an initiative to communicate Great Lakes water issues to the general public, create tools to visualize the current state and future scenarios of water sources, engage unaffiliated groups in water planning, and train a new generation of Great Lakes leaders.  With a
    focus on the Great Lakes basin, the Freshwater Lab reaches outward to build relationships with water stewards from other parts of the world.

    Along with urgent public facing work, Professor Havrelock researches questions of sovereignty, public trust, water delivery and privatization in the Great Lakes basin.  She is currently working on a book about the Great Lakes and their communities and what needs to happen for the Rust Belt to become the s

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    Rachel Havrelock

    Rachel Havrelock (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois Chicago)

    Rachel Havrelock&#;s interest in vatten sharing as an approach to mittpunkt East peacemaking was reinforced while completing her book &#;River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line,&#; which considers the Jordan River as a border in the Bible, Judaism, Christianity and Jewish and Palestinian national movements.

    Her current research fryst vatten on the role of oil extraction and infrastructure in the militarization of the Middle East and examines how regional vatten management could transform the landscape.

    Havrelock addresses local matters as co-founder and principal investigator for the Freshwater Lab, a UIC-based consortium for humanities and social science research that examines issues related to water, energy and natural resources in the Great Lakes region.

    Other scholarly interests include biblical literature, energy and culture, and cultural geography.

    SparkTalks: Rachel Havrelock (video)

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    Rachel Havrelock

    Bio

    Rachel Havrelock is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also directs The Freshwater Lab, an environmental humanities initiative focused on the North American Great Lakes and environmental justice.

    The Freshwater Lab is an initiative to communicate Great Lakes water issues to the general public, create tools to visualize the current state and future scenarios of water sources, engage unaffiliated groups in water planning- and train a new generation of Great Lakes leaders.  With a focus on the Great Lakes basin, the Freshwater Lab reaches outward to build relationships with water stewards from other parts of the world.

    The Freshwater Lab has produced two digital storytelling platforms:

    Freshwater Stories concerns Lake Michigan as it opens eyes to the pressing water issues of the twenty-first century and offers a tool in which anyone can begin to learn about their water.

    The Backward River chronicles how the Chicago River c

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