Collegeville, PA

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Ursinus College
Employer Type: University

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).

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Courses I've taken that prepared me for my current job:
Political Ecology, Land Use Planning, Principles of Applied Ecology

Courses I wish I had taken:
Environmental History

• 2003-2004 Morris K. Udall Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Doctoral Fellow
• 2004-2005 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences (Dartmouth College) Post-doctoral Fellow