ABOUT
Course Areas
Psychology, human relations, community planning, history and philosophy of human ecology
EDUCATION
- B.A. University of Texas, 1968
- Ph.D., M.A., Psychology, Kent State University, 1972
- University Post-Doctoral Fellow, Animal/Behavioral Ecology, Ohio State University, 1973-74
- Academy for Educational Development (AED), Harvard University, 1992
- M. Phil. (Hon.), College of the Atlantic, 2020
INTERESTS
Richard J. Borden – recently retired – is an emeritus faculty member.He served as the COA’s Academic Dean for twenty years, held the Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology, and taught courses in psychology, human relations, community planning, and the history and philosophy of human ecology. Before COA, he was on the faculty at Purdue University and The Ohio State University.
He is a past-president and former executive director of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE), and a founding member of the human ecology section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
Rich has authored and co-authored several books – as well as numerous book chapters, research reports, journal articles, and essays. His Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective received the G. L Young Book Award “exemplifying the highest standards of scholarly work in the field of human ecology”.He has served as a USIA academic specialist in the area of human ecology, and as an interdisciplinary program consultant in China, Russia, elsewhere in Europe, and in North and South America.
In addition to his passion for networking human ecology worldwide, Rich also enjoys the domestic pleasures of cooking, carpentry, traditional music and sailing on the Maine coast.