Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Katrina Maggiulli presented their paper “Containing Hybrid Threat & Controlling Genetic Futures: Policing Species Borders in Threatened & Endangered Conservation” at the 2023 Society for Literature Science and the Arts “Alien” conference in Tempe, Arizona.
While scientists will typically agree that species boundaries and definitions are difficult (if not impossible) to definitively mark—the processes of evolution producing inherent flux which problematizes their discernibility—nevertheless conservation will often treat species as if they are clearly delineated and actively… Read more