Kelly Alley - Information

Speaking at the WaterWays 2007 Conference Wednesday, March 14, 2007.


Source: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/sociology/bios/alley.htm

"Professor Kelly D. Alley. is the Director of the Anthropology Program. She received her B.S. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.

Dr. Alley has carried out research in northern India for over ten years, focusing on public culture and environmental issues. Her book titled, On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (University of Michigan press 2002) explores Hindu interpretations of the sacred river Ganga in light of current environmental problems. She is the author of "Separate Domains: Hinduism, Politics and Environmental Pollution" in Hinduism and Ecology, edited by Chistopher Chapple and Mary E. Tucker (Harvard U Press 2000), "Images of Waste and Purification on the Banks of the Ganga" in City and Society (1998), and "Idioms of Degeneracy: Assessing Ganga's Purity and Pollution" in Purifying the Earthly Body of God, edited by Lance Nelson (SUNY Press 1998). The "Idioms" article was reprinted in Worldviews, Religion and the Environment (Thomson Wadsworth 2002), edited by Richard Foltz. She has also published, "Gandhiji on the Central Vista: A Postcolonial Refiguring" in Modern Asian Studies (1997), "Ganga and Gandagi: Interpretations of Pollution and Waste in Benaras" in Ethnology (1994), and "Urban Institutions at the Crossroads: Judicial Activism and Pollution Prevention in Kanpur" in Urban Anthropology (1996) among others.

Dr. Alley is now working with Julian Crandall Hollick, NPR radio producer, on the "Ganga Radio Series," a series of features and documentaries about the culture and ecology of the river Ganges in India and Bangladesh. For more information on that project, see Julian's website at: http://www.ibaradio.org/India/ganga/prototype/index.htm.

For three years, Dr. Alley and M C Mehta, an environmental lawyer from Delhi, directed a project to facilitate professional exchanges between environmental lawyers,scientists and NGOs to solve river pollution problems in India.

Dr. Alley's current interest is to complete a book on environmental public interest litigation in India that describes how citizens use the courts to enter policy and decision-making on environmental issues.

Her web based instructional program on environmental public interest litigation can be read at: http://www.auburn.edu/~alleykd/envirolitigators.

She is also working with the Center for Forest Sustainability, a peak of excellence program at Auburn, to study sustainable development along the urban-rural interface in westcentral Georgia."