Chris Coggins

Chris is a professor of Geography & Asian Studies at Simon’s Rock College – Bard. He is the co-author/editor (with Yifei Li) of The Sage Handbook on China and the Environment (2026); Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (with Bixia Chen, 2022), and Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (with Emily Yeh, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (U Hawaii Press, 2003). He lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts with his wife, Tanya Kalischer.