We are happy to announce that AURA's first PhD student to defend his thesis, has gotten a job as Assistant Professor in the US. Dr. Colin Hoag defended his thesis in Bioscience "Stability and Change in African Environments: An Historical Ecology of Rangelands in Lesotho" on February 6 at Søauditorierne at Aarhus University.

Colin has now accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Environmental Anthropology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Hoag will be teaching courses on human-environment relations in the Anthropocene; water and environmental justice; and interdisciplinary approaches to space, place, and landscape.