The Department of Environment and Sustainability has assembled a dynamic and broad group of faculty from across the disciplines... From Anthropology to Zoology!
Research Areas: Climate change, global environmental governance, environmental policy, science and technology studies, public participation in emerging technologies
Research Areas: Political ecology; historical ecology; shared governance; conflict and conflict resolution; past and present urban sustainability, marginal lands and occupational pluralism; historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; archaeological chemistry; regional analysis.
Edward J. Kikta Jr. Innovation Professor of Experiential Learning
Department of Environment and Sustainability
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Dr. Clark's expertise and experience span the topics of sustainability education, climate change policy, sustainable development and resilient infrastructure systems. Clark’s current research focuses on quantifying the social burden of power outages due to natural disasters and extreme events.
Research Topics: Social Movements, Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility, Ethical/Sustainable Commodity Markets, and Environmental Gentrification.
Research Areas: Activism and social movements, civic science, energy policy and governance, environmental justice, participatory action research, science and technology studies.
Research Areas: The history of environmental activism, business and the environment, sustainability, urban and suburban environments, Frederick Law Olmsted, environmental non-fiction.
Research Interests: Environmental Health and Justice; Studies of Science, Technology, and Society; Critical Race Theory; Social Movements; Data Visualization and Analytics
Interests: Global and national politics of sustainable development, democracy adoption, and its global diffusion, democracy & autocracy differences in mitigation of environmental disasters, and the effects of democracy & autocracy on sustainability, well-being, and gender-balance sustainable development.