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Arthur Mason Visiting Assistant Professor arthur.mason@berkeley.edu 310 Barrows Hall |
Arthur Mason holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University (BA) and University of California at Berkeley (PhD). Before coming to ERG, he was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at University of Calgary, and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Professor Mason is co-founding organizer of Association for Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). His political appointments include Associate Director of Energy in the Office of the Alaska Governor in Washington D.C.
Professor Mason’s research interests lay at the intersection of energy systems, politics and forecasting knowledge. His work analyzes the production of ideas about energy resources, noting how consultant advisory service firms rather than governments drive the location, structure, and content of high-level conversations within the newly privatized and globalized energy markets.
He is Director of StudioPolar, a National Science Foundation initiative that examines the work of consultant expertise in stabilizing perspectives on arctic natural gas development. The research is a comparative study of North American (U.S. and Canada) and European (Russia and Norway) interpretations of energy systems development. He teaches courses on institutions, energy and community; science and technology; ecological modernization; energy politics and aesthetics.
• CV
• StudioPolar (www.studiopolar.com)