People

Administration

  • IPEES Director
  • Associate Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Environmental History, History of Science, Wildlife and Endangered Species, and California

  • IPEES Program Coordinator

Serves as Program Coordinator for IPEES. Works with students and faculty to process documents, plan programming, and support graduate education.

  • Bren Hall 4312

Participating Faculty

  • Professor
  • Chicanx Studies & Anthropology

Maya Hieroglyphic History, Mesoamerican Art, Experimental Archaeology, Culture Theory, and Indigeneity

  • Associate Professor
  • Bren School & Political Science

Political Structures and Dynamics, and Environmental Policy

  • Associate Professor
  • Gevertiz School of Education

Language and Literacies Across the Disciplines; Narrative Studies; International Education; Science Literacy; Discourse as Collaboration

  • Education Building 3151
  • Associate Professor
  • Global Studies

Science Studies, Innovation and Environmental Politics, and Public Policy

  • Professor
  • Linguistics

Sociocultural linguistics; language and identity; language and youth; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Chicano English and Spanish; language in California; discourse, cognition, and culture

  • Professor
  • Bren School & Geography

Ecology and Hydrology of Drylands, Distributed Environmental Sensing & Sensor Development, Sub-Saharan Agriculture, Coupled Social-Environmental Systems

  • Associate Professor
  • Film and Media Studies

Game studies, environmental criticism, histories and theories of new media and documentary film, science and technology studies, sound studies

  • Associate Professor
  • Feminist Studies

Political Economy of Globalization, Human Trafficking, Immigrant Women

  • Assistant Professor
  • Global Studies

City and Regional Planning, Urban Studies, Global Green Economy, International Development, China, Social Movements and Organized Labor

  • Associate Professor
  • English & Comparative Literature

Early Modern Studies, Literature and the Environment, and Restoration & 18th Century Literature

  • Professor
  • Environmental Studies & EEMB

Plant and Ecosystem Ecology, Invasive Species, Species Affects on Ecosystem Processes, and Restoration Ecology

  • Assistant Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Energy systems and policy analysis; electricity sector planning, operations, and markets; geospatial analysis of energy resources; energy access in developing regions

  • Professor
  • Sociology

Climate Crisis, Global Climate Justice Movement, and Sustainable Development, and “Building Better Futures” 

  • Professor
  • Comparative Literature

Integrative Studies/Critical Theory

  • Professor
  • Global Studies & English

Global Media (Literatures, Cinemas, Popular Culture); Postcolonial Theory; Epidemic Media and South Asia Studies

  • Assistant Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Environment and Society, Infrastructure and Adaptation, Climate Justice Studies

  • Professor
  • Anthropology

Medical and Psychological Anthropology, Risk and Perception, Social Production of Health and Environmental Inequality, and New Technologies and Society

  • Assistant Professor
  • Environmental Studies & Bren School
Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Land Systems Science, GIS
 
  • Professor
  • English

Literature, the Medieval Period, and Environmental Initiatives

  • Associate Professor
  • Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Ethnography, Land Change, Latin America, and the Brazilian Amazon

  • Professor
  • Bren School

Soil Microbiology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Microbiological Coastal Water Quality

  • Assistant Professor
  • English

Ocean Humanities, Literature and the Environment, Literature Theory, Media Theory and Literature and Technology

  • Professor
  • Bren School

Quantitative Ecology, and Animal and Plant Population Dynamics

  • Professor
  • Psychology and Brain Sciences

Cultural Influences in Psychological Processes (Speech, Social Support, and Social Behaviors)

  • Professor
  • Earth Science

Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Marine Geochemistry, and Global Climate Change

  • Associate Professor
  • East Asian Studies

Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Justice

  • Professor
  • Geography

Population (Migration, Fertility), Health, Environmental Change, Deforestation, Rural Development, and Latin America

  • Assistant Professor
  • Political Science

Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Public Opinion, Methodology

  • Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Environmental Justice Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Change, and Social Movements

  • Assistant Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Water Resources Engineering, Groundwater Science and Policy

  • Associate Professor
  • Writing

Visual and Material Rhetorics, Environmental and Sustainability Rhetorics, Rhetoric and Technical Communication as Advocacy work, Cassical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Animal Studies

  • Associate Professor
  • Environmental Studies

Global Environmental Politics; Organizational Theory; Economic, Environmental and Development Sociology

  • Assistant Professor
  • Anthropology

Environmental Politics, Waste, Urban Infrastructure, Racialization, Labor, Energy, Socialism/postsocialism, European Union, Bulgaria

  • Professor
  • Environmental Studies & EEMB

Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, Microbial Ecology, and Organismal Ecology

  • Professor
  • Psychological and Brain Sciences

Social Psychology, Psychology of Self-Defense, and Perceived Intergroup Polarization

  • Associate Professor
  • English

Literature and the Environment, and Twentieth Century Anglophone Literature

  • Professor
  • Political Science

Environmental Politics, Energy Issues, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Congress, and Political Parties

  • Assistant Professor
  • Political Science

American Politics, Energy and Environmental Politics, Public Policy, Methodology

  • Professor
  • Film and Media Studies

Documentary Film and Media, Film Historiography, Feminism and Film Theory, Trauma and Memory, and Media and the Environment

  • Professor
  • Anthropology

Sociocultural Antropology, Political Economy, Mexico-United States Borderlines, Water, Commodities, History and Materialism

  • Professor
  • Bren School

Environmental Policy, Water and Watershed Policy, Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Environment

Participating Students

2018 - 2019 Cohort

Sarah Gerenday (Earth Science)
Sage Gerson (English)
Christopher Macmahon (History)
Mackenzie Wade (Anthropology)

2017 - 2018 Cohort

Jessica Coyotecatl (Anthropology)
Theo LeQuesne (Global Studies)
Heather Prentice-Walz (Anthropology)
Zoe Welch (EEMB)
Emily Williams (Geography)

2016 - 2017 Cohort

Sylvia Cifuentes (Global Studies)
Kelsey Dowdy (EEMB)
Shannon Hagerty (EEMB)
Molly Moore (EEMB)
Sarah Jane Pinkerton (Feminist Studies)

2015 - 2016 Cohort

Ingrid Feeney (Anthropology)
Elizabeth Forbes (EEMB)
Jessi Love-Nichols (Linguistics)
Andrew McCumber (Sociology)
Matthew Richert (Anthropology)
Max Stiefel (Geography)

2014 - 2015 Cohort

Corrie Ellis (Sociology)
Zach King (Sociology)
Laura Drake Schultheis (EEMB)
Pablo Sepulveda-Diaz (Anthropology)
Christopher Walker (English)