Environmental Studies
2015-16 General Catalog
405 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2634
http://envs.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Christopher Benner
Social aspects of information technology, social equity in urban and regional development, social movements and innovative community/labor organizing, political ecology of urban systems
Weixin Cheng
Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology
Tim Duane
Environmental law and policy, renewable energy development, ecosystem-based management, land use planning and regulation, water law and policy, conservation easements, climate law and policy
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, applied evolutionary ecology
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, tropical 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 conservation for ecosystem services, biological processes as an alternative to pesticides, environmental risks of genetically engineered organisms, redwood forest community ecology
Daniel M. Press
U.S. environmental politics and policy, water quality, industrial ecology, resources management, policy analysis
Carol Shennan
Agroecology, ecosystem processes, organic agriculture, participatory research, agricultural development with a focus on Africa
Andrew Szasz
Environmental sociology (environmental movements, policy, environmental justice), theory
Erika Zavaleta
Biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, human ecology, conservation science
Associate Professor
Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecology; sustainable development; Latin America; extractive industries; climate change; new models of conservation
Michael E. Loik
Plant physiological ecology, climate change ecology, biometeorology, ecohydrology
Flora Lu
Ecological anthropology, indigenous resource management and household economics, conservation, market integration, environmental justice, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador
Stacy M. Philpott
Agroecology, biodiversity, climate change, community ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem services, food sovereignty, landscape ecology, insects, tropical biology, urban ecology
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
Christopher C. Wilmers
Wildlife ecology, conservation biology, global change ecology, ecological modeling
Assistant Professor
Madeleine Fairbairn
Environmental sociology, sociology of agriculture, property ownership and land tenure, food politics and social movements, Latin America, political ecology
Adam Millard-Ball
Transportation planning and policy, environmental economics, urban sustainability, climate change policy
Zdravka Tzankova
Environmental policy and politics; coastal and marine policy; market-based governance; private regulation; strategic litigation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Catherine Burns
Conservation biology, migratory birds, freshwater ecosystems, population and community ecology, natural resource management
Renee Kidson
Hydrology, water resource management, urban water supply training, climate change and Antarctic science, military history
Heather Tallis
Natural resource management, ecosystem services, social ecological systems, environmental impact assessment and mitigation, economics, environmental psychology
Environmental Studies Emeritus Faculty
Robert R. Curry
Bryan H. Farrell
Stephen R. Gliessman
David Goodman
Paul L. Niebanck
James E. Pepper
Alan Richards
Michael E. Soulé
Environmental Studies Lecturers
Sarah Rabkin
Environmental and science journalism, the literary and visual arts in natural history practice
Andrew Schiffrin
Environmental assessment, transportation, land use planning, water supply planning
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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
Kenneth W. Bruland, Emeritus (Ocean Sciences)
Edmund Burke III, Emeritus (History)
Melissa L. Caldwell (Anthropology)
Poverty and public health; welfare, charity, and assistance; food and consumption; gardens, nature, and landscapes; religion; socialism and postsocialism; Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
Patrick Y. Chuang (Earth and Planetary Science)
Clouds, aerosols and climate
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
Jennifer Derr (History)
Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history; Egypt; agricultural and environmental history; Ottoman history; spatial politics; African history; Islamic history; history of science; history of medicine
Kent Eaton (Politics)
Comparative politics, Latin America, international relations, political economy, public policy, political institutions
James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Ocean Sciences)
Marine sciences, community ecology, species interactions
Andrew Fisher (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, heat flow, modeling
Laurel R. Fox (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology)
Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology
James B. Gill, Emeritus (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Gary B. Griggs (Earth 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 (Social Sciences)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, California agriculture, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, epigenetics and environmental health, critical nutrition, critical human geography
Donna J. Haraway, Emerita (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies)
Susan Harding, Emerita (Anthropology)
A. Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Disease ecology, population biology, conservation
Paul L. Koch (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Kristy Kroeker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Global change biology, community ecology, applied marine ecology, climate change, ocean acidification, multiple stressors
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics)
International relations; global political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society and social movements; popular culture and politics; technology and society; risk society, state transformation and global governmentality
Andrew Salvador Mathews (Anthropology)
Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, conservation and development, climate change, environmental history, Mexico, Latin America, Italy
Ingrid M. Parker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Plant ecology, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
Adina Paytan, IMS Research Scientist (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Maya Peterson (History)
Russian and Soviet history; environmental history; comparative empire; colonialism; global exchanges of scientific knowledge and expertise; technology transfer; historical geography, spatial history and mapping, Central Asia; Silk Roads
Jarmila Pittermann (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Plant physiology
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
Jennifer E. Reardon (Sociology)
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society
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.
Barry Sinervo (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology
Lisa C. Sloan, Emerita (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Donald R. Smith (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology)
Social inequality, affect, religion, race, quantitative analysis
Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Slawek M. Tulaczyk (Earth and Planetary Science)
Glaciology and glacial geology, soil mechanics
Terrie M. Williams (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Large mammal physiology, bioenergetics, exercise and environmental physiology
Patricia Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Transnational migration by Mexicans, poverty, family sexuality, labor, social networks, feminist studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, ethnographic research methods
Revised: 09/01/15
