Ithaca College

 Mitch Aso is Assistant Professor of the Global Environment at SUNY-Albany. Before arriving in Albany, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore. He is currently finishing a book manuscript called Forests without Birds:  Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975, which explores the making of environments, human health, and knowledge through the places and people involved in rubber production. 

Professor Aso's dissertation on French colonial Vietnam won the 2013 Young Scholar Prize of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. He has recently published articles in Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Science, Technology, and Society. He teaches courses on global environmental history and Asian history.

Please join us IN CNS 112 on Monday 7 December at 4 PM for the presentation and for sustainable snacks provided by Sodexo!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Carol Hansen at chansen@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1822. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.