# Karim-Aly Kassam

**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/karim-aly-kassam
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/faculty

## International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies

### Research Focus

Dr. Kassam conducts research that has immediate impact on community agency, adaptation, and resilience. His research interests include:

- Indigenous and place-based ecological knowledge
- Human ecology
- Ethnobiology
- Biocultural diversity
- Stewardship
- Ecological calendars
- Pluralism
- Ways of knowing
- Food sovereignty and security
- Medicinal plants (health sovereignty)
- Participatory action research
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Natural resource policy and management
- Development studies
- Indigenous land and marine use mapping
- Gender analysis
- Arctic social science
- Social history of Muslim societies
- Social change in indigenous communities
- Community economic development

## Courses - Fall 2025

- [AMST 3330 : Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/AMST/3330)