Philip Allen Loring is a human ecologist and is currently the Arrell Chair in Food, Policy, and Society at the Arrell Food Institute at University of Guelph. Education He received a master's degree in anthropology and a PhD in Indigenous studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Research career Loring's research focuses on Arctic food security, natural resource conflict, and regenerative food systems. Much of his research as explored Indigenous food security, fisheries, and the impacts of climate change. Loring has also done research on conflict over natural resources in settings such as Alaska and the Canadian prairies. In 2017, he took a position at the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability where he served as the President of the Arctic Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, he published Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology. In May 2020, he launched the Social FISHtancing podcast with Hannah Harrison and Emily De Sousa, which was nominated for a Canadian Podcast Award and a science communication award from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Loring and Harrison also coined the term "pubcast" to refer to audio recordings of published research articles. Works Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology. Fernwood Publishing. 2020. "Community-Led Initiatives as Innovative Responses" in Food Security in the High North. Routledge. 2022. "Indigenous food sovereignty and tourism: the Chakra Route in the Amazon region of Ecuador" in Justice and Tourism Principles and Approaches for Local-Global Sustainability and Well-Being. Routledge. 2021. "Fish as food: policies affecting food sovereignty for rural Indigenous communities in North America" The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy. Routledge. 2019. References American anthropologists Human ecologists Living people University of Guelph faculty University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni University of Saskatchewan faculty