Environmental Studies
2011-12 General Catalog
405 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2634
http://envs.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Weixin Cheng
Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology
Robert R. Curry, Emeritus
Bryan H. Farrell, Emeritus
Margaret FitzSimmons
Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, the development and regulation of primary-sector activities and the regional integration of environmental planning and resources management institutions in urban and rural settings
Gregory S. Gilbert
Disease ecology, forest ecology, tropical ecology, biological invasions, conservation biology
Stephen R. Gliessman
Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, tropical land use and development, alternative trade networks, sustainable livelihoods and conservation, linking community and agroecology
David Goodman, Emeritus
Brent Haddad
Fresh-water economics, policy, and communications; economic institutions and the environment; climate-change mitigation and adaptation; institutional and ecological economics
Karen D. Holl
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology
Sheldon Kamieniecki
Environmental politics and policy; agenda building; strategic regulatory planning; business and interest group influence; political campaigns and elections; research methodology
Deborah K. Letourneau
Agroecology, tropical biology, insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides, environmental risks of genetically modified crops
Paul L. Niebanck, Emeritus
James E. Pepper, Emeritus
Daniel M. Press
U.S. environmental politics and policy, water quality, industrial ecology, resources management, policy analysis
Alan Richards, Emeritus
Carol Shennan
Agroecology, ecosystem processes, organic agriculture, participatory research, agricultural development with a focus on Africa
Michael E. Soul, Emeritus
Associate Professor
Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecology; sustainable development; Latin America; extractive industries; climate change; new models of conservation
Timothy Duane
Environmental law and policy, renewable energy development, ecosystem-based management, land use planning and regulation, water law and policy, conservation
Michael E. Loik
Plant physiological ecology, climate change ecology, biometeorology, ecohydrology
S. Ravi Rajan
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics
Erika Zavaleta
Ecology and evolutionary biology, biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, conservation
Assistant Professor
Zdravka Tzankova
Environmental policy and politics (United States and comparative), especially: scientific expertise and environmental decision-making; non-state market-based governance; interactions between public and private regulation (dynamics and conservation consequences); marine policy
Christopher C. Wilmers
Wildlife ecology and conservation; food webs and climate change; movement ecology; animal behavior; predator-prey dynamics; ecological modeling
Erika Zavaleta
Ecology and evolutionary biology, biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, conservation
Lecturer
Andrew Schiffrin
Environmental assessment, transportation, watershed management
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Doris Ash (Education)
Informal science learning, teacher professional development, science discourse in and out of the classroom
Giacomo Bernardi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution
Michael K. Brown, Emeritus (Politics)
Inequality, race and African American politics, political economy, political development of welfare states, theories and methods of historical social science
Kenneth W. Bruland (Ocean Sciences)
Chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry
Edmund Burke III (History)
Islamic history, modern Middle East and North African history, French history, European imperialism, world history
Melissa L. Caldwell (Anthropology)
Poverty and welfare, religious development work, food, transnationalism, socialism and postsocialism, Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
Mark Cioc (History)
German history, modern European history, environmental history
Daniel P. Costa (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds
Donald Croll (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of islands and seabirds
Ben Crow (Sociology)
International development, sociology of water and markets, global inequality, South Asia and East Africa, political economy, and green enterprise
E. Melanie DuPuis (Sociology)
Economic sociology, sociology of consumption, sociology of development, political sociology, sociology of the environment, technological change, historical sociology, social theory, food and social change
Kent Eaton (Politics)
Comparative politics, international relations, political economy, public policy, territorial conflict, federalism, decentralization, party and electoral systems, Latin America, the Philippines
James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Ocean Sciences)
Marine sciences, community ecology
Andrew Fisher (Earth Sciences and Planetary Sciences)
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, heat flow, modeling
Jonathan A. Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Latin American and Latino politics, including issues of democratization, social movements, social and environmental policy, immigration, and public interest groups
Laurel R. Fox (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology)
Paleolithic and Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology
James B. Gill (Earth Sciences and Planetary Sciences)
Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs
Gary B. Griggs (Earth Sciences and Planetary Sciences)
Coastal processes, hazards and engineering
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy)
Kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy
Julie H. Guthman (Community Studies)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography
Donna J. Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies)
Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, human-animal relations, and animal studies
Susan Harding (Anthropology)
Culture, politics, narrative, gender, local/global studies, ethnographic writing, fundamentalism, Christianity, state-making, aging, America, Spain
A. Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)Disease
Ecology, population biology
Paul L. Koch, Professor (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics)
International relations; international political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society; film, fiction, and politics; technology and society; states of terror
Flora Lu, (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Ecological anthropology, human behavioral ecology, Amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples, conservation, Ecuador, culture change, market integration, indigenous resource management, political ecology, environmental justice
Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)
Political sociology; political economy of development, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion and social movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks
Andrew Salvador Mathews (Anthropology)
Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, conservation and development
Ingrid M. Parker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Plant ecology, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
Manuel Pastor Jr., (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Urban poverty and regional development, Latinos in the urban U.S., environmental justice, macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America; distribution and growth in the developing world; Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform
Adina Paytan, IMS Research Scientist (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Grant H. Pogson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes
Donald C. Potts (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing
Peter T. Raimondi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology
Danilyn Rutherford (Anthropology)
Borders and frontiers, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, kinship, performance, Christianity, secularism, sovereignty, publics, affect, technology, governancy, theory and method in anthropology, West Papua, Indonesia, the U.S.
Ali Shakouri (Electrical Engineering)
Quantum electronics; nano- and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices; thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion; renewable energy sources; thermal imaging; micro-refrigerators on a chip; and optoelectronic integrated circuits
Lisa C. Sloan (Earth Sciences and Planetary Sciences)
Paleoclimatology, climate change, Earth system science, surficial processes
Donald R. Smith (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Andrew Szasz (Sociology)
Environmental sociology (environmental movements, policy, environmental justice); theory
Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology)
Social inequality and identity, research methods, race relations, nationalism and social movements
Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
Culture and politics, feminist theory and gender in the U.S., social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies, ethnicity, local power and relations to the state in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Terrie M. Williams (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology
Patricia Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Relationship between women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital
Revised: 8/13/12
