Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam is International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the American Indian Program.
At Ice Fishing Camp in Ulukhaktok
Education
Ph.D. (Natural Resource Policy and Management with concentrations in Socio-Anthropology and Community Sociology) Cornell University, USA
M.Sc. (Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries) London School of Economics, UK
M.Phil. (Islamic Studies) University of Cambridge, UK
B.A. (Economics) University of Calgary, Canada
Receiving certificate of membership to the
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan
Honours
- Academician (Elected Member), Academy of Sciences Republic of Tajikistan (2012)
- Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Asia (2010)
- Faculty Fellow, Cornell Center for Sustainable Future (2009)
- International Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (2007)
- Teaching Excellence Award (2005/2006)
- Popular Professor, Maclean’s Guide to Universities (2004)
- Alberta's 50 most influential people for 2003,
Alberta Venture Magazine - Teaching Excellence - Honourable Mention (2002)
- Teaching Excellence Award (1998/1999)
- Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North American (1994)
- First Canadian Recipient of Organization of American States - Fulbright Ecology Fellowship
- First Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development
- Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society