Helle Valborg Goldman

Academic background/career

1998-present: Chief Editor of Polar Research, the NPI's international peer-reviewed journal. Read about the journal's recent transition to open access by clicking here.

1996-97: Technical Adviser, Jozani-Chwaka Bay Conservation Project (Zanzibar, Tanzania), a CARE-funded integrated conservation and development project.

1996: PhD in social anthropology, New York University. Dissertation: A comparative study of Swahili in two rural communities in Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania.  See NYU Alumni Profile at http://anthropology.as.nyu.edu/object/anthro.alumni .

1990: MA in social anthropology, New York University. Thesis: Modes of exchange and forms of property among !Kung Bushmen (Botswana and Namibia).

Publications (pdfs of many of these are available upon request)

• H.V. Goldman 2010. Portrait of an editorial office: the bipolar editor. Editorial Office News August, 11-15.
• H.V. Goldman 2010. Norway, polar research and the Norwegian Polar Institute: past and present. Invited guest lecture, Explorers Club, New England chapter, Boston, 25 June.
• E.V. Jenssen & H.V. Goldman 2009. Ufrivillige artister. (Involuntary performers; guest editorial about animals in circuses.) Newspaper Nordlys 20 May, 3.
• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman 2008. Updating the inventory of Zanzibar leopard specimens. Cat News 49, 4-6.
• G. Cameron & H.V. Goldman 2008. Les campagnes de Zanzibar: une brève histoire du droit foncier et de la réforme agraire. (Rural Zanzibar: a brief history of land rights and agrarian reform.) In N. Bernadie-Tahir (ed.): L’autre Zanzibar. Géographie d’une contre-insularité. (The other Zanzibar. The geography of an island country.) Pp. 153-172. Paris: Karthala. 
• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman 2007. Killing the king: the demonization and extermination of the Zanzibar leopard. In E. Dounias et al. (eds.): Le symbolisme des animaux: l’animal, clef de voûte de la relation entre l’homme et la nature? (Animal symbolism: animals, keystone in the relationship between man and nature?) Pp. 1133–1182. Paris: IRD Éditions.
• H.V. Goldman & J. Winther-Hansen 2007. Elefanter og andre dyr på sirkus. (Elephants and other animals in the circus.) Newspaper Tromsø 16 May, 42.
• H.V. Goldman 2007. Zanzibar. In J. Middleton & C. Miller (eds.): New encyclopedia of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• H.V. Goldman & J. Winther-Hansen 2007. Lights, camera, action. Africa Geographic 15, 24-25.
• H.V. Goldman, J. Winther-Hansen & M.T. Walsh 2004. Zanzibar’s recently discovered servaline genet. Nature East Africa 34, 5–7.
• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman 2004. Zanzibar leopard—dead or alive? Tanzanian Affairs 77, 20–23.
• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman 2003. The Zanzibar leopard between science and cryptozoology. Nature East Africa 33, 14–16.
• H.V. Goldman & J. Winther-Hansen 2003. First photographs of the Zanzibar servaline genet Genetta servalina archeri and other endemic subspecies on the island of Unguja, Tanzania. Small Carnivore Conservation 29, 1–4.
• H.V. Goldman & J. Winther-Hansen 2003. The small carnivores of Unguja: results of a photo-trapping survey in Jozani Forest Reserve, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Tromsø, printed privately.
• H.V. Goldman & M.T. Walsh 2002. Is the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) extinct? Journal of East African Natural History 91, 15–25. See also: 2003 Erratum: Is the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) extinct? Journal of East African Natural History 92, 4. Both are available online here.
• H.V. Goldman 1998. Zanzibar. In J. Middleton (ed.): The encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• H.V. Goldman & M.T. Walsh 1997. A leopard in jeopardy: an anthropological survey of perceptions and practices threatening the survival of the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi). Zanzibar Forestry Technical Paper 63. Zanzibar: Commission for Natural Resources.
• H.V. Goldman & M.T. Walsh 2012. Chasing imaginary leopards: science, witchcraft and the politics of conservation in Zanzibar. Journal of Eastern African Studies 6, 727-746.

Oral/poster presentations (pdfs of posters are available upon request)

• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman 2010. Chasing imaginary leopards: science, witchcraft and the politics of conservation in Zanzibar. Paper presented at the 8th European Swahili Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography, Oxford, 19-21 September.
• H.V. Goldman & M.T. Walsh 2008. When culture threatens the conservation of biological diversity: the tragic case of the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi). Poster presented at the Conference on Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World, New York, 2-5 April.
• H.V. Goldman & M.T. Walsh 2007. Human–wildlife conflict, unequal knowledge and the failure to conserve the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi). Poster presented at the Felid Biology and Conservation Conference, Oxford, 17-20 September.
• H.V. Goldman 2011. Polar Research – nine months along. Presentation at the Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Talinn, Estonia, 21 September.
• H.V. Goldman 2012. Polar Research: reflections two years after the journal's transition to open access. Presentation at the 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing, Tromsø, Norway, 22-23 November.

Miscellaneous

• M.T. Walsh & H.V. Goldman. The Zanzibar leopard: anthropology and conservation in Zanzibar. Blog online at http://zanzibarleopard.blogspot.com/
• Translated book (Norwegian to English). Norway in the Antarctic by J.-G. Winther et al. Oslo: Schibsted. 2008. 
• H.V. Goldman & A.K. Balto. Sled dogs and the race to save Nome, Alaska. Children's exhibit, Norwegian Institute Library. 2012.

Professional membership

Norwegian Association of Researchers - Norwegian Polar Institute chapter

European Association of Science Editors

International Society of Technical and Managing Editors

Friends of the IUCN/SSC Cat Group