This collection contains the papers of activist, author, and licensed psychotherapist Chellis Glendinning, a well-known ecopyschologist, anarchist, and bioregionalist. Much of her work concerns the negative impact of modern technology. Included are correspondence, manuscript material, photographs, serial publications and books.
The Correspondence series consists of letters from family, friends, and colleagues from the 1970s through 2008. Also included is a section of letters that focus on Glendinning's books. Newspaper and magazine clippings, flyers and broadsides related to the author's activities may be found in the Ephemera series.
Manuscript Material consists of notes and drafts of lectures, notes and research on a variety of projects, and material related to Glendinning's opera, De Un Lado al Otro, written in 2006 with Cipriano Vigil. Personal photographs and correspondence, make up the Family and Subject Files, which also holds early creative works as well as Glendinning's high school year book.
The Diaries series is made up of twenty of personal journals and diaries covering the years 1955-1978, while the Photographs series contains images of New Mexico, and Glendinning's childhood, family, travel, conferences, and friends.
The audiocassette tapes, compact discs, videotapes, and one DVD in the Audiovisual series document the author's lectures and paper presentations, complemented by several lectures by colleagues. The final two series, Serial Publications and Books, are comprised of issues of journals containing articles by Glendinning and copies of her books Off the Map: an Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy (2002) and Waking Up in the Nuclear Age (1987).
The 2022 accretion consists of newly acquired materials dating largely from 2010-2020.
Chellis Glendinning (born 18 June 1947) is a European-American author of creative nonfiction, licensed psychotherapist, and political activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology and a critic of technological society, having worked with such contemporaries as Jerry Mander, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Kirkpatrick Sale.
Glendinning graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in social sciences in 1969, at which time she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She received her Ph.D in psychology from Columbia Pacific University in 1984.
In 1997, Glendinning won the Río Arriba County's Zero Injustice Award for her "courageous stand in support of the customs, culture, and traditions of the Native American and Indo-Hispano people of northern New Mexico."
In 1989, she received the New Mexico Council for the Humanities First Times Award for Short Story Writing, and was named Best Local Writer by the Río Grande Sun of Española, New Mexico in 2000 and 2003. Her book Off the Map won the 2000 National Federation of Press Women Book Award in general nonfiction. Her 2005 nonfiction book, Chiva, won the same award in 2006.
In 2007 Glendinning's bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, written in collaboration with ethnomusicologist Cipriano Vigil, was presented at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Robert Castro directed.
As of 2022, Glendinning has written nine books in total. The most recent is In the Company of Rebels, which profiles 43 social activists from the 1960s and 1970s. She has also written for a number of journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Orion, CounterPunch, ColdType: The Reader, Alternet, Tikkun, Race, Poverty and the Environment and San Francisco Bay Guardian.
