Brendan Bohannan
Associate Professor of Biology
Brendan joined the University of Oregon faculty in September of 2006, after 8 years on the faculty at Stanford University. He is particularly fascinated with the diversity of microbial life and much of his research is focused on understanding the causes and consequences of microbial biodiversity. He has research projects around the world, including in the Brazilian Amazon, South Africa, Australia, Michigan, and Oregon. His work has been published in the journals Nature, Science, PLoS, PNAS and many others. Brendan was awarded a Williams Fellowship and a Wulf Professorship in recognition of his teaching at UO, which includes Ecology (BI 370), Community Ecology (BI472/572), and the Philosophy of Ecology (BI410/510, with Ted Toadvine). When not professing, Brendan can be found climbing mountains or digging in his garden.
http://biology.uoregon.edu/ceeb/faculty_pages/Bohannan3.html
Peg Boulay
Co-Director of the Environmental Leadership Program
Peg Boulay is Co-Director of the Environmental Leadership Program. She is a wildlife ecologist with a broad background in natural resource research, management, planning, policy and conservation. Her professional focus and interest is how scientific information is best collected, managed, synthesized, distilled and communicated to inform natural resource decisions. Peg’s teaching background – undergraduate and graduate instruction, habitat workshops for landowners, nature guide training, and collaboration training for natural resource professionals – influences her teaching philosophy. She believes that a varied and interactive approach fosters a high level of participation, interest, understanding and ability to apply information to practical situations. Before joining UO, she spent 17 years as a professional wildlife biologist, primarily with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Though she has experience with a variety of taxa and issues, she has worked extensively with large carnivores and migratory birds. She was also co-author, managing editor and implementation lead for the Oregon Conservation Strategy, a collaborative action plan for conserving Oregon’s fish, wildlife and habitats.
Scott D. Bridgham
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Scott joined the UO faculty in 2003, after nine years on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame. Before that he was a postdoctoral associate and research associate at the University of Minnesota—Duluth. He is an ecosystem ecologist who has worked historically mostly in wetlands, but currently he also works in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. His current research projects focus on climate change effects on ecosystems processes and plant range distributions, the biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of methane production, and restoration ecology. Scott regularly teaches Wetland Ecology and Management (ENVS 465/565), Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology (ENVS 476/576), and a research methods course for the first-year graduate sequence (ENVS 632). He has also taught Introduction to Environmental Studies: Natural Sciences (ENVS 202). He is an avid whitewater kayaker, runner, mountain biker, etc.
http://ceeb.uoregon.edu/Bridgham/Bridgham.php
Trudy Ann Cameron
Raymond F. Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Trudy has served in a policy advising capacity on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, both on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and as chair of the of the U.S. EPA’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, the group which monitors the EPA’s ongoing legislatively mandated benefit-cost analysis of the Clean Air Act. She served as president of the 800-member Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE) during 2007-2008, and has served in the past as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Resources for the Future. Trudy’s research interests concern the valuation of non-market goods–in particular, the empirical measurement of the social benefits of environmental regulations and policies. Her research in recent years has emphasized measurement of the willingness of households to incur the costs of climate change mitigation policies and regulations to reduce environmental health risks. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Health Canada. She teaches environmental economics and econometrics at the graduate level, as well as environmental and natural resource economics at the undergraduate level. She also teaches a survey course on environmental and natural resource economics for Environmental Studies students called “Allocating Scarce Environmental Resources.”
http://www.uoregon.edu/~cameron/vita/
Matthew Dennis
Director of Graduate Studies for Environmental Studies
Professor of History
Matt received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the History faculty at the University of Oregon in Fall 1988. In addition to environmental history, his research fields include colonial America and the early national United States, American culture and politics, the history of public memory and commemoration, and urbanism and American cities. His books include Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in 17th-Century America; Red, White, & Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar; Riot & Revelry in Early America (ed.); and Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations, 3 vols. (ed.). His most recent book, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic, will be published in 2010. Thoreau continues to inspire him to become an “expert in home-cosmography,” though he wouldn’t mind also going around the world to Zanzibar to count the cats.
http://history.uoregon.edu/faculty/profiles/index.php?name=mjdennis
Alan Dickman
Director of Environmental Studies
Research Associate Professor of Biology
Senior Instructor and Research Associate Professor of Biology
Alan received undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies and Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz before coming to the University of Oregon in 1979 to do his doctoral work on fire and disease interactions in mountain hemlock forests. After short stints teaching at Pacific Lutheran University and Lane Community College, Alan joined the biology faculty at the UO in 1986 where he has taught introductory biology for majors and non-majors, upper division forest biology and botany, and an introduction to environmental science course. He was appointed Director of the Environmental Studies Program in 2006. In his spare time, Alan enjoys gardening, canoeing, fly-fishing, and pretending to learn to play piano.
http://biology.uoregon.edu/people/Dickman/dickman.php
Kathryn Lynch
Co-Director of the Environmental Leadership Program
Katie, a member of the UO faculty since 2005, is an environmental anthropologist and has worked in Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia and the United States examining issues of community-based natural resource management. Her research interests include tropical conservation, gender and natural resource issues, ethnobotany and the cultural uses of wild plants, ecofeminism, critical pedagogy and engaged environmental education. She currently teaches environmental education in theory & practice (ENVS 425/525) and directs a wide variety of service-learning projects as part of the Environmental Leadership Program (ENVS 429). She has a strong commitment to participatory, collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches and is completely inspired by the truly spectacular landscapes found all over Oregon.
Richard Margerum
Associate Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
Richard holds a Ph.D. in planning from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where his dissertation examined collaborative approaches to environmental management. He worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for three years on watershed management and growth management. In 1995 he moved to Australia as a postdoctoral Fulbright fellow, and later joined the faculty of the Queensland University of Technology. His research in Australia focused on collaborative approaches to watershed management and regional growth management. He is currently an Associate Professor and Department Head for the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management Department at the University of Oregon. He has published over 20 articles and book chapters on collaborative planning, environmental planning and growth management and continues to focus on planning process, conflict management, and institutional and coordination issues. In a national study of planning departments, Dr. Margerum was ranked in the top 50 of faculty for the number of journal article publications. Richard has conducted research in collaboration with several Oregon watershed councils; he is the past Chair of the Steering Committee for the Long Tom Watershed Council. In 2007-08, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), where he worked with researchers on regional natural resources along the Great Barrier Reef coastline.
http://pppm.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=faculty&page=richmargerum
Patricia F. McDowell
Professor of Geography
Description coming soon.
http://geography.uoregon.edu/mcdowell/
Ronald Mitchell
Professor of Political Science
Ron has published International Politics and the Environment (Sage, 2009), International Environmental Politics (Sage, 2008), Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence (with William Clark, David Cash, and Nancy Dickson, MIT Press, 2006), and Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance (MIT Press, 1994). He was the University of Oregon’s commencement speaker in 2008. He has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. His current research interests include the effectiveness of international environmental agreements (focusing at present on climate change, fisheries, and transboundary air pollution) and he has developed a database of all multilateral environmental treaties and corresponding performance indicators. He is the co-director (with C. Susan Weiler of Whitman College) of the Dissertation Initiative For The Advancement Of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS) program which helps new scientists working on climate change develop interdisciplinary skills to improve their understanding of, and ability to help solve, the problem of climate change. He teaches courses on international relations, international environmental politics, and international organization.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/
Brook Muller
Associate Professor of Architecture
Brook teaches design studios and courses in sustainable architecture, theory and media. He is also the Director of the Certificate Program in Ecological Design within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. His research focuses on the design process in its formative stages and the theoretical foundations of ecologically responsive architectural practice. Brook received a BA in environmental studies from Brown University in 1987 and an MArch from the University of Oregon in 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Brook worked with Behnsich & Partner Architects in Stuttgart, Germany, and served as co-project leader on the IBN Institute for Nature Research, a European Union pilot project for human and environmentally friendly building. Brook was an Assistant Professor in the Architecture Department at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo from 2000-2004, where he was awarded the Wesley Ward Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design in 2002. He was recently awarded the Oregon Campus Compact Judith Ramaley Faculty Award for Civic Engagement in Sustainability (2009).
http://architecture.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=people&page=faculty&who=mullerb
Kari Norgaard
Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Over the past ten years I have published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions. I currently have two active areas of research 1) work on the social organization of denial (especially regarding climate change), and 2) environmental justice work with Native American Tribes on the Klamath River. Both these areas of scholarship have been nationally recognized through the award of research grants, speaking invitations, and coverage of my research by high profile media outlets including the Washington Post, National Geographic, British Broadcasting System, and National Public Radio. My book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life is just out with MIT Press in the Spring of 2011
Josh Roering
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Josh joined the UO faculty in 2001 and is a geomorphologist with projects in New Zealand, Northern California, and Oregon funded by the National Science Foundation. His research interests include landscape evolution modeling, quantitative topographic analysis using airborne laser altimetry, and biotic controls on sediment production. Josh serves as an associate editor for GEOLOGY and the Journal of Geophysical Research. In 2005, Josh received the University of Oregon’s Ersted Award for distinguished teaching. He regularly teaches Environmental Geology (GEOL 102), Earth and Environmental Data Analysis (GEOL 418/518), Hillslope Geomorphology (GEOL 441/541), and Tectonic Geomorphology (410/510). He enjoys playing tennis, listening to Neil Young LPs, and following the Minnesota Twins.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jroering/
Ted Toadvine
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Ted joined the UO faculty in 2003, after teaching in Kansas, Michigan, and Florida. His research interests are in continental philosophy (especially phenomenology and post-structuralism) and environmental philosophy, including ethics, aesthetics, and the history of concepts of nature. Ted is the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature (Northwestern, 2009), editor or translator of six books, and managing editor of Environmental Philosophy, the official journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. He regularly teaches introduction to environmental studies: humanities (ENVS 203), environmental philosophy (PHIL 340, 540), environmental ethics (ENVS 340), environmental aesthetics (ENVS 440/540), and the introductory course of the first-year graduate sequence (ENVS 610). In 2009-10, he will be a Resident Scholar with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Policy and Wulf Professor of the Humanities. Since moving to Oregon, he has become an avid fungophile and a fan of Morton Feldman.
http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/toadvine/
Peter Walker
Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Peter joined the UO faculty in 1997, after receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in geography. His research interests are in environmental politics and concepts of nature in Africa and the American West. He regularly teaches introduction to environmental studies: social science (ENVS 201), political ecology (ENVS 450/550), historical and contemporary ideas of nature (Geography 462/562), Sustainability (ENVS 410/510), Geography of Africa (Geography 462/562), Population and Environment (Geography 341), Perspectives on Nature and Society (ENVS 420/520), and seminar in political ecology (ENVS 607).
http://geography.uoregon.edu/walker/
Louise Westling
Professor of English
Molly Westling grew up in NE Florida among the alligators, palmettos, and water moccasins, graduated from college in Virginia, and earned graduate degrees in English at the Universities of Iowa and Oregon. She has taught at colleges and universities in Kentucky, Oregon, and Germany and has been teaching Environmental Studies courses for more than twenty years. Research interests have migrated from studies of Southern American writers to landscape and American fiction, into ecocritical theory, environmental justice literature, and critical animal studies. Her books include Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor and The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape and Gender in American Literature. Recent articles have examined human/animal relations in literature from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Virginia Woolf, and the philosophy of Dewey, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty as grounding ecocritical approaches to literary texts. For the past few years she has branched out into the practice of cross-species communication by learning to herd sheep with her Australian Kelpie dogs.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~engl/people/faculty/westling/
Richard York
Associate Professor of Sociology
Richard is co-editor of the Sage journal Organization & Environment. He has published over fifty articles, essays, and reviews, including ones in American Sociological Review, Conservation Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Monthly Review, Sociological Theory, and Theory and Society. He recently published The Critique of Intelligent Design (Monthly Review Press) with John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark. He has twice (2004 and 2007) received the Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. He has also received the William Piche Award in Arts and Sciences (2006) from the College of Arts and Sciences for “excellence in teaching, superior scholarship, and dedicated service.” His research focuses on the social structural forces that generate environmental crises and the philosophy, history, and sociology of science. He teaches courses on environmental sociology, social theory, and quantitative methodology.
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/york.php