Stevan Harrell

Stevan Harrell is an anthropologist of China and Taiwan and has taught at the University of Washington since 1974. His interest in ethnic identity led to further interest in ethnic arts, and from 1999-2007, he was Curator of Asian Ethnology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
Working in Liangshan, Stevan became interested in environmental sustainability and community development through education. He helped found the Yangjuan Primary School in 2000. At the same time, he became active in educational exchange programs. He now heads the UW Worldwide Program, exchanging undergraduates with Sichuan University and involving many of them in ecological fieldwork and community service at the Yangjuan School. In 2005, with a group of students, he founded the Cool Mountain Education Fund, a small NGO that gives scholarships to graduates of the Yangjuan School.
Stevan plans to devote the rest of his professional career to international scholarly and educational exchange and to research on human-environment interactions in the US, China, and Taiwan.
More info: http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/