slhitchn@uga.edu
Anthropologist, Researcher, Writer, Instructor, and Editor
www.sarahhitchner.com
Department of Anthropology
250 Baldwin Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-1619
(706) 542-1463
slhitchn@uga.edu
Education:
2009 Ph.D. Ecological
Anthropology, University of Georgia (UGA) 2000 B.A. Anthropology/English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)
Research Interests:
Bioenergy, renewable energy, energy
ethics, heirs’ property, minority forest landowners, southeastern U.S.,
social vulnerability, climate change, collaborative research methods,
ethnographic writing, pilgrimage studies, ecological anthropology, Malaysian
and Indonesian studies, cultural landscapes, sacred natural sites,
historical ecology of anthropogenic landscapes, transboundary
conservation, community-based ecotourism, community mapping
Positions:
Jan. 2018- present: Co-Director, Bali & Beyond Study Abroad Program, UGA Feb. 2017-present: Adjunct
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia (UGA) Feb. 2010-present: Assistant
Research Scientist, UGA
Aug. 2009-Dec. 2009: Teaching Assistant, UGA Department of Anthropology
Sept. 2006-Aug. 2009: Dissertation Fieldwork, Sarawak, Malaysia
Jan. 2004-May 2006: Graduate Research Assistant, UGA Department of Anthropology
Aug. 2003-Dec. 2004: Teaching Assistant, UGA Department of Anthropology
Aug. 2001-Aug. 2003: Editor and Promoter, Open Hand Publishing
Aug.-Dec. 1997: Research Assistant, NCSU Department of Forestry
Honors and Awards:
Dec. 2000: Summa Cum Laude
(B.A.)
Grants and Fellowships:
U.S.D.A. Forest Service (project researcher): 2020-2021. “Tribal Stakeholder Analysis for Fire Mitigation in Eastern Oklahoma.”
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (project researcher): 2017-2021. “Increasing Practice of Sustainable Forestry Among Minority and Limited Resource Forest Landowners in Georgia”
U.S.D.A. Forest Service (principal investigator): 2017-2019. “Book Prospectus and Writing:
Envisioning and Implementing Woody-based Bioenergy Systems in the U.S. South.”
U.S.D.A. Forest Service (project researcher): 2015-2017. “Cultural Experiences of Nature: Learning from Pilgrimage Experiences to Natural Places.”
U.S.D.A. Forest Service (project researcher): 2011-2016. “Social and Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation: Anthropological and Sociological Approaches to Social Vulnerability and Biofuels in the U.S. South.”
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (project researcher): 2014-2017. “Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program.”
U.S.D.A. AFRI-NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Grant (co-investigator): 2012-2016. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South.”
National Science Foundation Travel Grant (project researcher): 2010. “Collaborative Event Ethnography of the CBD COP10” [Nagoya, Japan].
Advancing Conservation in a Social Context Travel Grant (project researcher): 2008. “Collaborative Event Ethnography: Conservation and Development Trade-offs at the Fourth World Conservation Congress” [Barcelona, Spain].
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: 2006
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship: 2006
U.G.A. Graduate School Dean’s Award: 2006
National Science Foundation Ethnographic Research Training Grant: 2005
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute: 2004
National Science Foundation Grant: Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Practicing Science through Physical Anthropology: 1999-2000
Publications:
In preparation:
Brosius, J. Peter and Sarah Hitchner, editors. In preparation (publication 2023). Handbook on Conservation and Social Science. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hitchner, Sarah and Poline Bala. In preparation. “Formalizing Indigeneity: A Case Study of the FORMADAT, the Alliance of the Indigenous Peoples of the Highlands of Borneo.” To be submitted to Modern Asian Studies.
Schelhas, John, Jasmine K. Brown, Mike Dockry, Sarah Naiman, Grace Wang, Sarah Hitchner. In prep (proposal accepted). “Recent Advances in Race, Ethnicity, and Natural Resources: Integrating Knowledge and Action.” In: Opening Windows: Emerging Perspectives, Practices and Opportunities in Natural Resource Social Sciences. Logan, UT/Louisville, CO: Utah State University/University Press of Colorado.
Brosius, J. Peter and Sarah Hitchner. In preparation. “Trumping Bali: Investment, Defilement and the Cultural Politics of Golf Resort Development in a Sacred Landscape.” To be submitted to Current Anthropology.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. In preparation. “Seeing the Forest for the Trees? How Rural Southerners Talk about Trees and Forests in the U.S. South.” To be submitted to Journal of Ethnobiology.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and Cassandra Johnson Gaither. In preparation. “African American Valuation and Management of Forest Lands in the Southeastern United States.” To be submitted to Society and Natural Resources.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, and Thomas Mitchell. In preparation. “Property Valuation Beyond Numbers: The Uniform Partition Heirs Property Act and the Sentimental, Cultural, and Historical Value of Land Owned by African-Americans in the U.S. South.” To be submitted to Wisconsin Law Journal.
Submitted and Published:
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2022. Forests As Fuel: The Intersection of Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group.
Hitchner, Sarah and Ramy Bulan. Forthcoming 2022. “The Intersection of Landscape History, Land Rights, and Community-led Conservation in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia.” In: An Anthology of Indigenous Peoples' Issues. Editors Ramy Bulan & Charles Chow. Kuala Lumpur: Thompson Reuters Malaysia.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2021. Review of: Global Energy Politics by Benjamin Sovacool and Thjis Van De Graaf, 2020 (Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity). Environment and Society 12(1): 251-252.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, Puneet Dwivedi, and Marc Thomas. 2021. “Understanding Black Landowner’s Engagement in Forestry in Georgia, United States: A Closer Look.” Forest, Trees, and Livelihoods. 188(3): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2021.1980741.
Hitchner, Sarah, Noah Goyke,
Marc Thomas, John Schelhas, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2021. “Beyond the
Math: Case Studies of Black Forest Landowners in Georgia, United States.” Published online December 1, 2021. Journal
of Sustainable Forestry.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2021.2010573.
Hitchner Sarah, John Schelhas, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2021. “Safe Havens: The Intersection of Family, Religion, and Community in Black Cultural Landscapes of the Southeastern United States.” Landscape and Urban Planning 214: 104136
Hitchner, Sarah and Poline Bala. 2020. “Traversing Sacred Stones in the Heart of Borneo: Transboundary Ecotourism through the Megalithic Landscapes of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia and the Kerayan Highlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia.” Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan 6(2): 84-97. https://doi.org/10.33736/jbk.2904.2020.
Schelhas, John and Sarah Hitchner. 2020. “Integrating Research and Outreach for Environmental Justice: African American Land Ownership and Forestry in the U.S. South.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 44(1): 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12133.
Holdridge, Genevieve, Fausto Sarmiento, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Bynum Boley, James K. Reap, Eric A. Macdonald, Mara Navarro, Sarah L. Hitchner, and John W. Schelhas. 2020. “Feeding Futures Framed: Rediscovering Biocultural Biodiversity in Foods and Farming of the Americas.” In: Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability, pp. 235-251. Edited by Fausto O. Sarmiento and Larry Frolich. London: Edward Elgar.
Hitchner, Sarah, Puneet Dwivedi, John Schelhas, and Arundhati Jagadish. 2019. “Gatekeepers, Shareholders, and Evangelists: Expanding Communication Networks of African American Forest Landowners in North Carolina.” Society and Natural Resources. 32(7): 751-767. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1560521
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2019. “Zen and the Art of the Selfie Stick: Blogging the John Muir Trail Thru-Hiking Experience.” Environmental Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1567568.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2018. “Strategies for Successful Engagement of African American Landowners in Forestry.” Journal of Forestry 116(6): 581-588. DOI: 10.1093/jofore/fvy044.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, J. Peter Brosius, and Nathan P. Nibbelink. 2018. “Thru-hiking the John Muir Trail as a Modern Pilgrimage: Implications for Natural Resource Management.” Journal of Ecotourism.DOI: 10.1080/14724049.2018.1434184
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2018. “Envisioning and Implementing Wood-based Bioenergy Systems in the Southern United States: Imaginaries in Everyday Talk.” Energy and Social Science 35: 182-192.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2017. “Envisioning and Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Systems in the U.S. South.” In: Leal Filho W., Marans R., Callewaert J. (eds) Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research, pp. 301-314. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2017. “’Even Our Dairy Queen Shut Down’: Risk and Resilience in Bioenergy Development in Forest-dependent Communities in the U.S. South.” Economic Anthropology 4(2): 186-199.
Sarmiento, Fausto and Sarah Hitchner, editors. 2017. Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas. New York: Berghahn Books.
Sarmiento, Fausto and Sarah Hitchner. 2017. “Introduction.” In: Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites
in the Americas. Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner, editors. New York: Berghahn Books.
Hitchner, Sarah, Fausto Sarmiento, and John Schelhas. 2017. “Conclusion.” In: Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas. Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner, editors. New York: Berghahn Books.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, and Viniece Jennings. 2017. “Sunshine, Sweat, and Tears”: African-American Ties to Land and Forests in the South. Asheville, NC: General Technical Report SRS-220, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Rory Fraser, Viniece Jennings, and Amadou Diop. 2017. “Engaging African American Landowners in Sustainable Forest Management.” Journal of Forestry115(1): 26-33.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, Teppo Hujala, and J. Peter Brosius. 2014. “Public Opinion on Wood-Based Bioenergy.” In: Wood Energy in Developed Economies: Resource Management, Economics and Policy, edited by Francisco Aguilar, pp. 32-74. London: Earthscan.
Himmelfarb, David, John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Katherine Dunbar, and J. Peter Brosius. 2014. "Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Climate Change in the Southeastern United States." In: International Perspectives on Climate Change: Latin America andBeyond, pp: 287-299. Walter Leal Filho, Fátima Alves, Sandra Caeiro, Ulisses M. Azeiteiroed, editors. New York: Springer Press. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-04489-7_20
Brosius, J. Peter, John Schelhas, and Sarah Hitchner. 2013. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South.” In: Proceedings of the Seventh National New Crops Symposium. Renaissance Washington, D.C. Dupont Circle Hotel, Washington, D.C. 12-16 October 2013.
Hirsch, Paul, J. Peter Brosius, Sheila O'Connor, Asim Zia, Meredith Welch-Devine, Juan Luis Dammert, Alexander Songorwa, Tran Chi Trung, Jennifer L. Rice, Zachary R. Anderson, Sarah Hitchner, John Schelhas, Thomas O. McShane. 2013. “Navigating Complex Trade-offs in Conservation and Development: An Integrative Framework.” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 31: 99-122.
Hitchner, Sarah and John
Schelhas. 2012. “Social Acceptability of Biofuels among Small-Scale
Forest Landowners in the U.S. South.” Proceedings of the IUFRO 3.08.00
Small-Scale Forestry Conference 2012: Science for Solutions, pp. 51-57.
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. 24-27 September 2012. Edited by Spencer R.
Meyer. Amherst, MA: Family Forest Research Center. Available online
at: http://iufrossf2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/iufro_3-08-00_proceedings_2012.pdf.
Schelhas, John and Sarah Hitchner. 2012. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy
in the U.S. South.” In: Proceedings of the Sun Grant Initiative National
Conference on Science for Biomass Feedstock Production and Utilization.
Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, LA. October 2-5, 2012.
Available online at: http://sungrant.tennessee.edu/NR/rdonlyres/78D6D6DF-1610-4A79-A04C-A9278C860C0D/3622/56Schelhas_John.pdf.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and Cassandra Johnson. 2012. “Social
Vulnerability and Environmental Change along Urban-Rural Interfaces.” In: Urban–Rural
Interfaces: Linking People and Nature, pp.171-185. David N. Laband, B.
Graeme Lockaby, and Wayne Zipperer, editors. American Society of Agronomy,
Soil Science Society of America, Crop Science Society of America.
Madison, WI 53711-5801, USA.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2012. “Doing High-tech Collaborative Research in the Middle of Borneo: A Case Study of e-Bario as a Base for the Transfer of GIS Technology in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia.” Journal of Community Informatics 9, Nov. 2012.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2010. “Heart of Borneo as a Jalan Tikus: Exploring the Links between Indigenous Rights, Extractive and Exploitative Industries, and Conservation at WCC [World Conservation Congress] 2008.” Conservation and Society 8(4): 320-330.
Hitchner, Sarah, Rebecca Witter,
and J. Peter Brosius. 2010. “Proposing a Rights-Based Landscape History Approach to Conservation.” IUCN-CEESP Policy Matters 17: 63-66.
Brosius, J. Peter and Sarah L. Hitchner. 2010: “Cultural Diversity and Conservation.”
International Social Science Journal 199: 141-168.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2009. Remaking the Landscape: Kelabit Engagements with Conservation and Development. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Georgia.
Hitchner, Sarah, Florence L.
Apu, Supang Galih, Lian Tarawe, and Ellyas Yesaya. 2009. “Community-based Transboundary Ecotourism in the Heart of Borneo: A
Case Study of the Kelabit Highlands of Malaysia and the Kerayan Highlands
of Indonesia.” Journal of Ecotourism
8(2):193-213.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2009. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Documenting and Preserving Cultural
Sites and Landscape Modifications in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak,
Malaysia.” Sarawak Museum Journal
LXVI(87): 1-79.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2009. Review of: Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming (2007) by Malcolm Cairns, ed. Human Ecology 37(1): 129-130.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008. Review of: Conservation is Our Government Now: The
Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (2006) by Paige West. American
Ethnologist 35(1): 1050-1052.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008: Review
of: Wild Profusion:
Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago (2006) by Celia
Lowe. American Ethnologist 34(3): 3030-3033.
Brosius, J. Peter and Sarah Hitchner. 2007. “One Forest, Two Histories: Penan and Kelabit of Sarawak.” In: Proceedings of the UNESCO International Workshop: Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity, p. 16. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 26-28 September 2007.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2005a. Review of: The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia:
Historical Perspectives (2003) by Lye Tuck-Po, Wil de Jong, and Abe
Ken-ichi, eds. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
1(1):18.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2005b. “Roads Diverging in Yellow Woods: New Paths
for Ecological and Environmental Anthropology.” Ecological and
Environmental Anthropology 1(1): 10-12.
Conferences and Presentations:
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2021. “When Imaginaries Collide: Wood-Based Bioenergy Development in Forest-Dependent Communities in the U.S. South.” Energy Ethics 2021: Energy Transitions & Planetary Futures. University of St. Andrews, Scotland (virtual conference). October 25-27, 2021.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2020. “Black Cultural Landscapes: Heirs’ Property among African American Landowners in the Southeastern United States.” Society of American Foresters (virtual conference). October 29-31, 2020.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2019. “African American Landownership and Forestry in the U.S. South: Integrating Research and Practice.” Society for Applied Anthopology, March 17-21, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2018. “Bioenergy Imaginaries the Southern United States: Patterns across Scales and Interest Groups.” Organized Session: Energy Impacts: Energy in the Landscape I: Attitudes and Imaginaries. 24th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM). June 17-21, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Schelhas, John and Sarah Hitchner 2018. “Linking Forestry and Heirs’ Property.” Panel on: “Heirs Property and Access to Justice: Changing the Conversation.” Appalachian Environmental Justice Symposium. West Virginia Law Review. February 23-24, 2018. Morgantown, WV.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and Puneet Dwivedi. 2017. “Successes of the Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program.” Society of American Foresters National Convention. Albuquerque, NM. November 15-19, 2017.
Hitchner, Sarah, Arundhati Jagadish, John Schelhas, Puneet Dwivedi. 2017. “Impact of Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention Program on Social Networks of African American Forest Landowners in North Carolina.” Society of American Foresters National Convention. Albuquerque, NM. November 15-19, 2017.
John Schelhas, Hitchner, Sarah, and J. Peter Brosius. 2017. “The Social Life of a Renewable Energy Imaginary: Envisioning and Implementing Wood-based Bioenergy Systems in the U.S. South.” Sustainability and Social Science Research Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. May 17-19, 2017.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, Nate Nibbelink, and J. Peter Brosius. 2017. “The Sacred Landscape of the Sierra Nevadas of California: A Social Map of the John Muir Trail as a Modern Pilgrimage.” Mountains and Sacred Landscapes Conference, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. April 20-13, 2016. New York, NY.
John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, Nathan Nibbelink, and J. Peter Brosius. 2017. “Hiking the John Muir Trail as a Modern Pilgrimage.” Society for Applied Anthropology 77th Annual Meeting. Theme: Trails, Traditions, and New Directions. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 28-April 1, 2017.
John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, and Cassandra Johnson. 2017. Poster: “Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention in the U.S. South” (poster). Society for Applied Anthropology 77th Annual Meeting. Theme: Trails, Traditions, and New Directions. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 28-April 1, 2017.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2016. “Even Our Dairy Queen Shut Down”: Risk and Resiliency in Bioenergy Development in Forest-Dependent Communities in the U.S. South.Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, Athens, GA April 14-16. 2016.
Jennings, Viniece, John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Sam Cook, Jennie Stephens, Rory Fraser, and Amadou Diop. 2015. Got Land? Heirs’ Property and the saga of African American land ownership in the 21st century. Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences Conference, March 31-April 2, 2016. Jacksonville, FL.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2015. Collaborative Documentation of the Cultural Landscape of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia. Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Values. University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and Society, Amherst, MA, 13-15 May 2015.
John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2015. “Weaving Straw into Gold”: Perceptions of the Social, Ecological, and Economic Sustainability of Wood-based Bioenergy in the Rural U.S. South. 2015 Southeastern SunGrant Conference. Auburn, AL. February 3-4, 2015.
Brosius, J. Peter, John Schelhas, and Sarah Hitchner. 2014. Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South. AFRI-NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Program Project Directors’ Meeting. Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington, VA, 29-31 October 2014.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2014. “What’s Climate Got to Do with It?”: Bioenergy and Climate Change Discourses in the U.S. South. American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 3-7, 2014.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and Cassandra Johnson. Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention: Linking Research and Pilot Projects. Society of American Foresters National Convention. Salt Lake City, UT. October 1-11, 2014.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South. Society of American Foresters National Convention. Salt Lake City, UT. October 1-11, 2014. (poster)
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. “Seeing the Forest for the Pines: Forest Landowners’ Valuation of Pine Plantations and Mixed Pine-Hardwood Forests in the Southeastern United States.” Society for Ethnobiology/ Society for Economic Botany, Cherokee, NC, May 11-14, 2014.
Schelhas, John, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. “Even Our Dairy Queen Shut Down”: Bioenergy and Economic Sustainability in the U.S. South. Society for Economic Anthropology, Austin, TX, April 24-26, 2014.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. "Snake Oil, Silver Buckshot, and People Who Hate Us: Narratives of Wood-Based Bioenergy in the Rural South”. Session organized by John Schelhas. Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM, March 18-22, 2014.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South” (Poster) CICR/OVPR Sustainability Science Symposium and Workshop, UGA, February 28, 2014.
Brosius, J. Peter, John Schelhas, and Sarah Hitchner. "Bioenergy & Sustainability: An Integrative Approach." Georgia Tech - University of Georgia Biofuels Summit (BSRI), UGA Gwinnett Campus, December 17, 2013.
Brosius, J. Peter, John Schelhas, and Sarah Hitchner. 2013. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy in the U.S. South.” Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC) 25th Annual Meeting/7th National New Crops Symposium: New Crops: Bioenergy, Biomaterials, and Sustainability” Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. 12-16 October 2013.
John Schelhas, Sarah Hitchner, and J. Peter Brosius. 2013. “Perceptions of Bioenergy: How People Understand and Talk about the Sustainability of Wood-Based Bioenergy in the Rural South.” 12th Annual Mississippi Biomass/Bio-products and Renewable Energy Conference. Harrah’s Casino Conference Center, Tunica, MS. 17-18 September 2013.
Himmelfarb, David, Sarah Hitchner, Kate Dunbar, Cassandra Johnson-Gaither, John Schelhas, Marhsall Shepherd, and Binita KC. 2013. "Perceptions of Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Resiliency in Metropolitan Atlanta." International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Estes Park, CO. June 4-8.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2013. “Public Perceptions of Bioenergy and Social Impacts of Bioenergy Development on Local Communities in the Southeastern U.S.” Bioenergy Systems Research Institute (BSRI) Retreat, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 13 May 2013.
Hitchner, Sarah, John Schelhas, and J. Peter Brosius. 2013. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy among Small-Scale Forest Landowners in the U.S. South.” Southeastern Conference (SEC) Symposium: Impact of the Southeast in the World’s Renewable Energy Future. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA. 10-12 February 2013. (Poster)
Hitchner, Sarah and John
Schelhas. 2012. “Social Acceptability of Biofuels among Small-Scale Forest
Landowners in the U.S. South.” IUFRO 3.08.00 Small-Scale Forestry
Conference 2012: Science for Solutions. Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. 24-27
September 2012.
Schelhas, John and Sarah Hitchner. 2012. “Social Acceptability of Bioenergy
in the U.S. South.” Sun Grant Initiative National Conference: Science for
Biomass Feedstock Production and Utilization. Hilton New Orleans Riverside,
New Orleans, LA. October 2-5, 2012.
Scott, Deborah, Sarah Hitchner, Edward Maclin, and Juan Luis Dammert. 2011.
“Negotiating Uncertainty: Science and Biofuels at the CoP10.” American
Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting: Traces, Tidemarks,
and Legacies. Montreal, QC, Canada, 16-20 November 2011.
Hitchner, Sarah, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, John Schelhas, and J. Peter
Brosius. 2011. “Qualitative Assessment of Climate Change in Georgia:
Integrating Ethnographic Research on Social Vulnerability with Social
Indicator-based Approaches.” University of Montana, Lubrecht Experimental
Forest, Missoula, MT. Workshop: Forest Community Vulnerability and Adaptive
Capacity in the Context of Climate Change. November 7-10 2011.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2010. “From Policy to Practice: Advancing a
Rights-Based Approach to Conservation.” University of Malaya (UM). Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. Conference on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples. UM Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies and Centre for Legal
Pluralism and Indigenous Law, Faculty of Law, UM. 9-10 November 2010.
Brosius, J. Peter, Rebecca Witter, and Sarah Hitchner. 2010. "From
Principles to Practice: Advancing a Rights-Based Approach in Biodiversity
Conservation.” Conservation International Workshop on CI’s Framework for
Human Rights in Conservation. Emory University, Atlanta, USA. 13-17
September 2010.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008a. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Documenting and
Preserving the Cultural Sites of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak,
Malaysia.” Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Sarawak. 2 April 2008.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008b. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Documenting and
Preserving the Cultural Sites of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak,
Malaysia.” Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia. 3 April 2008.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008c. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Documenting and
Preserving the Cultural Sites of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak,
Malaysia.” Rurum Kelabit Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia. 3 April 2008.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2008d. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Documenting and
Preserving the Cultural Sites of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak,
Malaysia.” Rurum Kelabit Sarawak, Miri, Malaysia. 5 April 2008.
Brosius, J. Peter and Sarah Hitchner. 2007: “One Forest, Two Histories: Penan and Kelabit of Sarawak.” UNESCO International Workshop: Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 26-28 September 2007.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2007. “Doing
High-tech Collaborative Research in the Middle of Borneo: A Case Study of
e-Bario as a Base for the Transfer of GIS Technology in the Kelabit
Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia.” e-Bario Knowledge Fair. Balai Raya
[Community Hall], Bario, Sarawak. 10-14 December 2007.
Hitchner, Sarah and Peter Brosius. 2006a. “The Kelabit Highlands as a
Heritage Landscape: Collaborative Research for Conservation and
Development.” Borneo Research Council. Holiday Inn, Kuching, Malaysia. 31
July-1 August 2006.
Hitchner, Sarah and Peter Brosius. 2006b. “Community Mapping, Social
Change, and Technology Transfers in the Kelabit Highlands of
Sarawak.” Conference on Indigenous Cartographies and Representational
Politics. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 3-5 March 2006.
Brosius, Peter and Sarah Hitchner. 2005. “Conservation Planning and
Implementation in Pulong Tau National Park, Sarawak” Workshop: Conservation
for/by Whom? Social Controversies and Cultural Contestations regarding
National Parks and Reserves in the Malay Archipelago. National
University of Singapore, Singapore. 16-18 May 2005.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2005. “The Living Kelabit Landscape: Cultural and
Ecological Evidence of Past Settlements near Pa’ Lungan, Sarawak.” UNIMAS.
22 July 2005.
Hitchner, Sarah. 2004. “Forests, Gardens, and Plantations: The
Development of Agroforestry and Decentralized Forest Management in Island
Southeast Asia.” University of Wisconsin, Southeast Asian Summer Studies
Institute Student Conference. 24 July 2004.
Professional Associations:
2012-present: Southern Bioenergy Network Working Group, member
2010-present: IUCN CEESP-WCPA
Theme (Working Group) on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity, and Protected
Areas (TILCEPA), member
2008-present: IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
(CEESP), member
1999-present: American Anthropological Association, member
2005-present: Society for Applied Anthropology, member
2005-present: Society for Humanistic Anthropology, member
Professional Services:
2019-present: International Advisory Board, Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan
2007-2009: Resident Research
Coordinator, e-Bario Telecentre (Sarawak, Malaysia)
Aug. 2004-2006: Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, review editor