Bio
Kyle Whyte is a faculty member at the University of Michigan where he is George Willis Pack Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Professor of Philosophy in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
His primary research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Kyle’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Climate Science Center, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, Mellon Foundation, Sustainable Michigan Endowed Program and Spencer Foundation. He serves on the U.S. Department of Interior’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science and is involved in the Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Everybody Eats: Cultivating Food Democracy, Humanities for the Environment, the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Indigenous Philosophers.
Dr. Whyte formerly held the Timnick Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University and served as a faculty affiliate of the American Indian Studies and Environmental Science & Policy programs. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at Stony Brook University.
Selected Publications
Too Late for Indigenous Climate Justice: Ecological and Relational Tipping Points. 2020. In WIRES Climate Change.
Indigenous Science (Fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral Dystopias and Fantasies of Climate Change Crises. 2018. In Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space 1 (1-2): 224-242.
Settler Colonialism, Ecology and Environmental Injustice. 2018. In Environment & Society 9 (1): 125-144.
Whyte, K.P., Brewer, J.P. & Johnson, J.T. 2015. Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and Sustainability Science. Sustainability Science.
Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup (CTKW). 2014. Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives. https://climatetkw.wordpress.com.
Holtgren, M., Ogren S., & Whyte KP. 2014. Renewing Relatives: Nmé Stewardship in a Shared Watershed. In Tales of Hope and Caution in Environmental Justice. A website for the Mellon Humanities for the Environment initiative.
Whyte, K.P. 2013. On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept: A Philosophical Study. Ecological Processes. 2(7): 1-12.
Website
ttps://kylewhyte.seas.umich.edu