|  | Ezra Markowtiz | PhD/ENVS 2012
| Most recent work:
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
I am about to start a post-doctoral fellowship with the \'Communicating Uncertainty\' research group at Princeton University. We will be exploring how uncertainty shapes our politics, institutions and ethics in the context of global environmental change. The group is funded by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and supported by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
|  | | Janet Fiskio | PhD/ENVS 2009
MA/ENVS 2003
| Most recent work:
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Janet teaches Environmental Studies at Oberlin College with a particular focus in the humanities. Her regular courses include environmental justice literature; sustainable agriculture; and ethics, equity, and narratives in climate change. Pedagogically, she is focused on developing community-based learning and collaborative research projects with her students. Her current research is a study of agriculture and ethics in American literature, film, and urban farming movements.
|  | | Sarah Jaquette Ray | PhD/ENVS 2009
| Most recent work:
Assistant Professor of English, University of Alaska Southeast
Sarah Jaquette Ray teaches composition, literature and environment, geography, cultural studies, and environmental studies. Her dissertation, which drew on theories and methods from cultural geography, environmental justice ecocriticism, and environmental history, was titled "The Ecological Other: Indians, Invalids, and Immigrants in U.S. Environmental Thought and Literature." She continues to write and publish on environmental justice and the cultural politics of nature. Her post at UAS, a small public liberal arts institution with a very diverse student body, affords unique opportunities to think about race, place, historiography, identity politics, and environmental justice.
|  | | Michael Hughes | PhD/ENVS 2008
| Most recent work:
Fluvial Geomorphologist, Klamath Tribes
My research examines the effects of hydrogeomorphic processes on aquatic and riparian habitat quality. I am currently working to develop a better understanding of the relative roles of human and non-human influences in shaping channel-floodplain dynamics of the Umatilla and Sprague Rivers in Oregon. I am applying research results to the development and implementation of science-based collaborative river management and restoration programs. Funded projects include studies focused on the effects of floods on habitat complexity (Umatilla, doctoral research), processes and patterns of erosion and deposition (Sprague), interactions between channel processes and riparian vegetation communities (Sprague), hydrogeomorphology of spawning areas for endangered suckers (Sprague), effectiveness monitoring of stream restoration projects (Sprague), and thermal patterns and variability of channel-floodplain systems (Upper Klamath Basin). I am active in the organization of scientific information to bridge basic and applied environmental geoscience. Examples of recent efforts include chairing sessions at the 2009 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (a three-part session entitled The Science, Management, and Restoration of Aquatic Systems in Arid and Semi-Arid Basins), the 2010 Klamath Basin Science Conference (Watershed Processes Plenary Session), and the upcoming 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (Tribal Rivers as Confluences of Environmental and Cultural Restoration). I maintain an interest in environmental science education in Oregon by hosting student internships at the Klamath Tribes Research Station and serving as a member of the Advisory Board of the Environmental Sciences Program at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
|  | | Chaone Mallory | PhD/ENVS 2006
| Most recent work:
Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy, Villanova University
I have been Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Villanova University since finishing my ESSP degree in 2006. I specialize in environmental ethics and philosophy, green political theory, ecofeminism, environmental justice, and related areas that link liberatory studies to the environment. My work has more recently begun to branch as well into science and technology studies and climate ethics. My recent publications have engaged and extended the work of contemporary ecopolitical theorists concerned to develop a notion of a more participatory and inclusive polis and green public sphere. My writings and research all work to articulate the emerging field of “ecofeminist political philosophy.†I am also involved in setting up a research program at the Center for Field Philosophy at Parque Etnobotánico Omora and Center for Biocultural Conservation and Environmental Ethics, in Cape Horn, Chile.
|  | | Patrick Hurley | PhD/ENVS 2004
MS/ENVS 2001
| Most recent work:
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Ursinus College
Dr. Hurley’s research investigates the implications that land-use change associated with urbanization and resultant politics have for natural resource-based livelihoods and practices, conservation practice, and ecological governance. His research employs ethnography and GIS to explore this intersection. Current projects include research that: assesses the consequences of urbanization for sweetgrass basket-makers in greater Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina (with Cari Goetcheus, Clemson); examines the role of amenity migrants in conservation efforts in western Turkey (with Dr. Yılmaz Arı, Balikesir University); explores suburban gathering in the Philadelphia metropolitan area; and examines ecological governance in conservation developments in South Carolina, California, and Oregon. I am also currently working on a book manuscript that examines land-use politics in Oregon (with Dr. Peter Walker, Oregon).
|  | | Tony Leiserowitz | PhD/ENVS 2003
MS/ENVS 1998
| Most recent work:
Director of Strategic Initiatives & Research Scientist, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Dr. Leiserowitz's research examines the role of underlying psychological, socio-cultural, and geographic factors in risk perception, decision-making and behavior. Recent projects include a series of survey and experimental studies at the state, national, and global scales on public risk perceptions and responses to global climate change; an examination of global values, attitudes and behaviors regarding sustainable development; and the theoretical development and empirical demonstration of distinct "interpretive communities of risk" among the American public.
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