Contributor: Bonnie McCay

International Advisory Board

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Bonnie J. McCay is on the Board of Governors and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Ecology in Cook College at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. McKay is one of the world's leading authorities on the management of common property resources, especially marine fisheries. She is the co-author of Science and its Role in the National Marine Fisheries Service (National Academy Press), and Community, Market and State on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries (University of Toronto Press). She is a National Associate for the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, a winner of the Norwegian Marshall Fund Award for Research in Marine Conservation, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. McKay holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Portland State University, and a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University.