2010 UDALL FELLOWS

Two Ph.D. candidates have been selected as 2010 Udall Dissertation Fellows. The Fellows were selected by an independent review committee of environmental scholars and professionals.

The Udall Dissertation Fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral candidates who have achieved distinction in their scholarly research and who are entering the final year of writing the dissertation. The dissertation topic must be significant and relevant to national environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution. The award covers both academic and living expenses up to $24,000 for the year. There have been 28 Udall Fellows since the first awards in 1997.

The 2010 Udall Fellows are

Clint Carroll
University of California-Berkeley
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Clint Carroll hopes to contribute to the growing body of indigenous social science research, specifically pertaining to environmental governance in indigenous nations and communities. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (Division of Society and Environment), Carroll is interested in the intersection of traditional knowledge and tribal environmental policy in the Cherokee Nation. His dissertation focuses on his applied work on a tribal ethnobotany initiative and its development into a partnership between the tribal natural resources department, a Cherokee community nonprofit, and a small group of Cherokee elders. Extrapolating on this, he discusses elements of Cherokee governance and state formation, and how these processes are informed by Cherokee community dynamics. Carroll received a B.A. in anthropology with a minor in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona. In the future, he plans to continue working on indigenous environmental governance issues in academic and applied settings.

David Cherney
University of Colorado-Boulder
Environmental Studies
David Cherney is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a research associate with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative in Jackson, WY. He holds a master's degree in environmental management from Yale University and a bachelor's degree in environment, economics, and politics from Claremont McKenna College. Cherney's dissertation uses the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a case study to appraise the effectiveness of conservation nonprofits. In 2006, he helped found the Greater Yellowstone Conservation Organizational Inventory. This program documented, for the first time, the scope of conservation nonprofits working around Yellowstone. His published research includes large mammal migration policy in Greater Yellowstone, national park management in southern Ecuador, and water management in the Connecticut River Watershed. Cherney serves on the executive council for the Society of Policy Scientists and on the program committee for the Society of Conservation Biology's Social Science Working Group.

For more information on the dissertation fellowship, a list of previous fellowship recipients, and more information on the Foundation and related programs, please visit www.udall.gov or contact Jane Curlin at (520) 901-8565 or curlin@udall.gov.