Contract Lecturer
Email: cgiancarlo@mtroyal.ca

Ph.D. Capella University
M.A. University of Calgary
B.Sc.University of Calgary

Curriculum Vitae

Scholarly Interests

Environmental and Social Justice, Primatology

Teaching Statement

Since 1992, Chris has worked to demonstrate to students and others how science and culture are linked together as the potential key to the future. With her side interests in biology and geography, she suggests a new worldview that is both productive and sustainable based on communication - between individuals, between factions of society and between whole cultures. During her fieldwork in Texas, she studied a population of semi free-ranging snow monkeys. This work provided her with many insights into the common evolutionary past of all primates including the human ones, especially in mother-infant relationships, nurturance, aggression and dependence on social and environmental circumstances. As an applied anthropologist, Chris applies these lessons from nonhuman society to human culture in such areas as human sustainability, global population growth, the environment and marginalized populations.

Relevant Publications and/or Presentations

Children and Youth Services Review 2023 Gender and Child Custody Outcomes Across 16 Years of Judicial Decisions Regarding Abuse and Parental Alienation Open Access https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740923003833?via%3Dihub Vol. 155, December 2023, 107187 https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0190-7409(23)00383-3 

Canadian Trial Level Cases: Parental Alienation and Judicial Outcomes 2020 Co-author with Dr. Jennifer Harman, Colorado State University Open Science Framework registered https://osf.io/8eudh 

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Studies 2015 Kids Come Last: The Effect of Family Law Involvement in Parental Alienation Annual Review Vol. 9, p 27-42.