Charles Porter, Assistant Professor in the School of Education – University Studies, has been keeping busy over the last year and will continue to do so into 2015.
Prof. Porter could be seen and heard around Texas in the fall semester of 2014 as a guest instructor and speaker at the 24th Annual Texas Water Law SuperConference in Austin on September 20, 2014, as keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Lone Star Water Forum in Brenham on October 4, 2014, and as keynote speaker at the 1st Annual Texas Hill Country Water Summit on December 5, 2014. All three of these speaking engagements centered on Texas water law and policy.
His speaking engagements so far for 2015 include serving as a panel member and guest speaker at UT Austin’s Energy Week, at the State Bar of Texas 16th Annual “Changing Face of Texas Water Law” luncheon in February, guest speaker at the Texas Economic Development Council’s 2015 Legislative Council on February 25, and as keynote speaker at the Texas Master Gardeners Conference in April. These engagements also will center on Texas water law and policy.
Prof. Porter continues to publish his research. His newest book, Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans, was part of the Texas Book Festival in October 2014. He was invited to write two book reviews in January 2015 of Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance by Craig E. Colten, and Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown and Boomtown by Harold Rich in the “Journal of Environmental History,” and the “East Texas Historical Journal,” respectively. January also saw the opening of his new online water policy journal, “Policy: Water, Government, and the People.”