David Abram

David Abram – cultural ecologist and geophilosopher – is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Described as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, David’s work engages the ecological depths of experience, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, language, and wonder inform the relation between the human animal and the animate earth. In his first book, David coined the phrase “the more-than-human world” in order to speak of nature as a realm that thoroughly includes humankind, yet also necessarily exceeds humankind; the phrase has now been taken up worldwide within the broad movement for ecological sanity.

Dr. Abram has received numerous fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Watson Fellowships and the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. He recently held the international Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and Ecology in Norway. He is Co-founder and Director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE) and a distinguished teaching Fellow of Schumacher College in England, and for 2022-2023, David was a Senior Scholar in Residence at Harvard Divinity School.