EDUCATION:
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to teach at Naropa and at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology certificate program. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing our Collective Narcissism and Healing our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022) and her most recent edited book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (Routledge, April 2025).
PUBLICATIONS:
Canty, J.M. (2023, June 16). Ambiguous, unusual couplings. Center for Humans and Nature.
Canty, J.M. (2023). An unexpected joy (poem). In Reaser, J. & Lanham, D. (eds.). Dawn songs (pp. 192-194). Talking Waters Press.
Canty, J.M. (2022). Returning the self to nature: Undoing our collective narcissism and healing our planet. Shambhala Publications.
Canty, J.M. (2022). Inhabiting brilliance: Wrestling the gifts of narcissism. In Donnelly, G. & Montuori, A. (Eds.). International handbook of creative futures (pp. 95-100). Routledge.
Canty, J.M. (2020). Ecological and social healing. In Macy, J. (author) and Kaza, S. (Ed.). A wild love for the world: Joanna Macy and the work of our time (pp.127-133). Shambhala Publications.
Canty, J.M. (2019). (Ed.). Globalism and localization: Emergent approaches to ecological and social crises. Routledge.
Canty, J.M. (2019). The ties that bind: an earth-based story of home. In Globalism and localization: Emergent approaches to ecological and social crises (pp. 34-53). Routledge.
Canty, J.M. (2018). I am a body on the body of the earth. In Caldwell, C. & Leighton, L. (Eds.). The body and oppression: Its roots, its voices, and its resolutions (pp.53-63). North Atlantic Books.
Canty, J.M. (2017). (Ed.). Ecological and social healing: Multicultural women’s voices. Routledge.
Canty, J.M. (2017). Seeing clearly through cracked lenses. In Ecological and social healing: Multicultural women’s voices (pp. 23-44). Routledge.
Canty, J.M. (2016). Beautiful darkness. In Kaklauskas, F., Hoffman, L., Clements, C. & & Hocoy, D. Shadows and light: Principles, practices, pedagogy, and multicultural perspectives of contemporary transpersonal counseling (pp. 25-38). University Professors Press.
Canty, J.M. (Winter 2015). Edges of transformation: Women crossing boundaries between ecological and social healing. Langscape: Biocultural Diversity – The People’s Issue, 4(2), pp. 30-32.
Canty, J.M. (2015). Introduction to special issue: Globalism and localization in the context of the ecological and social crisis. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 71 (3-4), pp. 59-64.
Canty, J.M. (2015). Locality to nonlocality: Transpersonal dimensions of home. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 71(3-4), pp. 76-85.
Canty, JM. (2014). Walking between worlds: Holding multiple perspectives as a key for ecological transformation. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 33(1), pp. 15-26.
Davis, J. V. & Canty, J.M (2013). Ecopsychology and transpersonal psychology. In Friedman, H. & Hartelius, G. (Eds). The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of transpersonal psychology. (pp. 597-611). Wiley Blackwell Press
