Christopher Timura ’96 is an achiever.  Some might say he is an over-achiever.  As a student at Denison, Timura wanted a triple major, a thought that sends shivers down the spine of most current students.  He eventually double majored in Environmental Studies and Sociology/Anthropology while also serving as the Denison University Recycling Program Coordinator, among many other campus activities. A Denison presidential medallist, Timura received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to the United Kingdom in Anthropology & Ecology of Development at the University College London. 

Timura received his Ph.D. in cultural Anthropology and J.D. at the University of Michigan and later interned at the International Law Commission of the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland.  Timura is now an attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, D.C.  His international trade practice provides advice to clients on compliance with U.S. national security and foreign policy-related laws and regulations. Some of Timura’s clients are involved in the development of vanguard energy and conservation technologies.  He works with these clients on licensing and other submissions to protect their technology when they move to export it outside the United States. 

Although Timura ultimately concentrated his work in Anthropology and Law after Denison, his training in the interdisciplinary ENVS program has always enabled him to, as he explains “think through disciplinary boundaries and to see value in the contributions that others, either through their life experience or disciplinary training, can bring to the table to address various research and policy problems.” Denison is a small place and Timura noted that his class of ENVS majors became incredibly close because of the classes they took together all four years. On reflecting back on the friendships he made in Denison's ENVS program, “given all the time we spent together, I have many memories, but also a general overarching one of sharing the experience of learning together about a set of issues we all cared deeply about.”