Environmental Studies
Nathan Adams
Academic Programs Manager
ASU 7- ANTH | ENVS | GEOG | IGL
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: nadams12@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 312 Condon Hall
Stacy Alaimo
Professor of English
Core Faculty in Environmental Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for English Department
English, Environmental Studies
Email: salaimo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1476
Office: 205 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9am-1pm (in person); T 3-5pm (Zoom only, email for appt and link)
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities/New Materialism, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary and Critical Th,Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture, Race, Ethnicity, and Indignity, Gender, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies
Melody Allison
PhD
GE
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: melodya@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Wednesdays from 2-4 pm in 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Worldviews and Paradigm Shifts, Human-Nature Relationships, the Degrowth Movement, and Food Systems.
Holly Amer
Graduate Student Researcher
Environmental Studies
Email: hamer4@uoregon.edu
Phone: 425-770-9672
Office: Columbia 247
Research Interests: Soil Science, Climate Change, Sustainable Land Management, Restoration
Adell Amos
Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law
Environmental Studies, Law, Law-JD
Email: aamos@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3826
Office: 354 Knight Law Center
Lillian Aoki
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: laoki@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays from 3:30-5 pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Coastal ecology, ecological resilience, ecosystem restoration
Jamila Baig
ESSP/Geography PhD Candidate
Climate Studies, Environmental Studies
Email: jbaig@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5426
Office: 105 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Reconstruction of Paleotemperature and vegetation using Multi Proxies in Pacific Northwest
Derek Beckett
Undergraduate Coordinator
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: derek1@uoregon.edu
Phone: +1 541-346-4008
Office: Condon 308
Office Hours: T,R,F 8:00-5:00PM
Kristina Beggen
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: kbeggen@uoregon.edu
Office: 607 PLC
Margaret C. Boulay
Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
ELP Senior Instructor II
Environmental Studies
Email: boulay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5945
Office: 244 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Wed 3:30-4:30 pm 244 COL, and by appointment
Scott Bridgham
Professor Emeritus, Biology and Environmental Studies
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: bridgham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1466
Office: 362 Onyx Hall
Trudy Cameron
Professor Emerita (former Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics)
Economics, Environmental Studies, SAIL
Email: cameron@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1242
Office: 428A PLC
Office Hours: By appointment only
Mark Carey
Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: carey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8077
Office: 110 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: environmental history, glaciers and society, climate change, environmental justice, Latin America, the Arctic
Ori Chafe
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ochafe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Laraine Clawson
Faculty Support Coordinator ASU 7
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: larainec@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0875
Office: 107 Condon Hall
Ashley Cordes
Assistant Professor
Indigenous Media Studies in ENVS and ENG
Digital Humanities, English, Environmental Studies
Email: acordes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0061
Office: PLC 444
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 8:30-10am
Research Interests: Media, Indigenous Science and Technology Studies (AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency), Digital Humanities, Environmental/Place-Based Studies, Visual Culture, Critical/Cultural Studies
Dara Craig
PhD Candidate
Environmental Studies
Email: dcraig5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Research Interests: Environmental justice, marine social sciences, joint marine spatial planning, coastal co-governance, Indigenous self-determination
Matthew Dennis
Professor Emeritus, History and of Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, History
Email: mjdennis@uoregon.edu
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Alan Dickman
Research Associate Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies and Biology
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: adickman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4502
Office: 137 Huestis Hall
Sue Dockstader
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: sdocksta@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5426
Office: 623 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Wednesday 9-11
Wendy Feng
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: wfeng@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Asian American Environmental Justice
Alexa Foor
English Graduate Student
Editor in Chief, Ecotone
English, Environmental Studies
Email: afoor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: Queer theory, Rural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Justice
Sophia Ford
PhD Candidate
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: skf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4589
Office: 247A Columbia Hall
Research Interests: critical human geography, memory, land-use, political geography
Madison Fowler
ESSP Doctoral student/GE
Environmental Studies
Email: mfowlern@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 128
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 1-4pm
Research Interests: Indigenous environmental literatures, public lands, U.S. national parks, LAND BACK!
Kathleen Gekiere
Environmental Studies Graduate Student
English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Email: kgekiere@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1496
Office: 254A Columbia
Office Hours: Tuesday 10 - 11 and by appointment.
Research Interests: Critical Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Posthumanism,
Monica Guy
Associate Director Academic Support Unit 7
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: monica@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5081
Office: 352 Condon Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Lauren Hallett
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: hallett@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3346
Office: 220C Pacific Hall
Office Hours: M/W 11am-12:50pm
Megan Hayes
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: mhayes8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Yumna Imtiaz
Ph. D. Candidate
Environmental Studies
Email: yimtiaz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: COL 144
Research Interests: Building Sciences, Architecture, Socio-technical studies of thermal comfort
Meredith Jacobson
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: mjacobs2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0675
Office: 721 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2023: By Appointment
Research Interests: Environmental sociology, settler colonial studies, forest and fire governance
Leigh Johnson
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: leighj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2644
Office: 152 Condon Hall
Office Hours: On Sabbatical 2023-2024
Research Interests: Climate change and environmental risk, political ecology, finance, development studies, East Africa, labor, firefighting
Ashley Kemper
Graduate Employee
First Year Masters Student
Environmental Studies
Email: akem@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: sustainability, waste colonialism as it relates to fast fashion, sustainable business practices, degrowth, ecology, environmental policy
Bjørn Ralf Kristensen
ABD Ph.D.
GE for Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: brk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Office Hours: Mondays 8:00am to 10:00am and by appointment during Summer 2024
Research Interests: Multispecies Studies, Animal Ethics, Medical and Public Health Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, American Pragmatism (John Dewey), Ecofeminism (Val Plumwood), Development Studies, Water & Sanitation, Informal Settlements
Lydia Lapporte
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: lapporte@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Ocean Studies, Art & Environment, Indigenous Studies, Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities
Fallon-James Laxa
Student Worker ASU 7
she/her
Environmental Studies
Email: asu7officestaff@uoregon.edu
Office: Columbia 144
Rachael Lee
English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Email: rlee3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Stephanie LeMenager
Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024
English, Environmental Studies
Email: slemen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 3-4:30pm & by appt.
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies
Melissa Lucash
Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: mlucash@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4598
Office: 245 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Mon at 10am, Thur at 9am Columbia 245
Research Interests: forest ecology,climate change, wildfire, spatial modeling,landscape ecology
Kathryn Lynch
Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
Environmental Studies
Email: klynch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5070
Office: 140 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany
Carole Mangels
Executive Support Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: cmangels@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1795
Office: Condon 308
Richard Margerum
Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
College of Design, Environmental Studies, PPPM
Email: rdm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2526
Office: 107A Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Collaborative governance, environmental planning and policy, watershed management
Galen Martin
Senior Instructor II of Global and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Food Studies, Global Studies
Email: gmartin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9178
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Tu 11:30-12:30, Th 4:00-5:00 or F by appointment
Research Interests: global food security, sustainable development, political ecology, conflict resolution, Latin America, Europe
Courtney Mathers
PhD Student
Environmental Studies
Email: cmathers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4695635044
Research Interests: soil, carbon cycling, mycorrhizal fungi, land management
Hana Matsumoto
Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Environmental Studies
Email: hmatsumo@uoregon.edu
Theresa May
Professor Emerita
Clark Honors College, Environmental Studies, IRES, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts
Email: tmay33@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1789
Office: Email for Appointments
Research Interests: Ecodramaturgy/Eco-theatre, Native/Indigenous Drama, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Justice, Community-based Performance, Theatre for Social Change, Sustainable Theatre Management.
Patricia McDowell
Professor Emeritus, Geography
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: pmcd@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4567
Office: 275 Condon Hall
Office Hours: M 2-3pm
Research Interests: Geomorphology, river management and restoration, Quaternary environments
Sabina Mensah
PhD student
Environmental Studies
Email: smensah@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Waste Management,Post-harvest loss
Alison A. Mildrexler
Office Specialist 2
Office Specialist 2
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: amildrex@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5203
Office: 107D Condon Hall
Ronald Mitchell
Professor of Political Science
Climate Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science
Email: rmitchel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4880
Office: 921 PLC
Office Hours: Sp24: Tuesday & Thursdays 10:00-11:30
Research Interests: Environmental Politics, International Relations
Erin Moore
Professor of Architecture and Environmental Studies
Architecture, Environmental Studies
Email: moore2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1439
Office: 477B Lawrence Hall
Nicolae Morar
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: nmorar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5547
Office: 250B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Sabbatical leave for the 2024-2025 academic year
Research Interests: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, 20th Continental Philosophy
Barbara Muraca
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Associate Department Head (Philosophy)/Curriculum Committee (Chair)/GTF Appointment Committee
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: bmuraca@uoregon.edu
Office: 242 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30pm & upon appointment; for graduate students only (upon email confirmation): Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Process Philosophy sustainability, degrowth, human-nature relationships
JeaLinda Patton
Operations Manager | ASU 7
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: jealinda@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5104
Office: 107H Condon Hall
Lauren Ponisio
Assistant Professor
Biology, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: lponisio@uoregon.edu
Zachary Provant
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: zprovant@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 Columbia Hall
Paul Quigley
Graduate Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: pquigley@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1825
Office: 1720 E 13th Ave., Ste 312
Office Hours: by appointment via email (winter mon - fri 8-4:30)
Alexandra Rempel
Assistant Professor of Environmental Design
Director of Graduate Studies for Environmental Studies
Architecture, Environmental Studies
Email: arempel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-510-7713
Office: 302 Vocanology
Office Hours: Fall 2023: 1-3pm Fridays in the Science Library Café
Kory Russel
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Landscape Arch
Email: krussel@uoregon.edu
Office: 215 Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Water, Sanitation, Container-Based Sanitation, Informal Settlements, Design
Kate Schau
Undergraduate Specialist
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: kschau@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2355
Office: 308 Condon Hall
Office Hours: MWR 8am-4:30pm
Nicole Schaub
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: schaub@uoregon.edu
Office: Glacier Lab Condon 105
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: glaciers, environmental justice, digital media technologies, the Arctic
Emily Scott
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, History Art & Arch
Email: escott2@uoregon.edu
Office: Lawrence 218
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm in Lawrence 218. Contact instructor for sign-up sheet.
Research Interests: Art, politics, and the environment
Lucas Silva
Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Biology, Environmental Studies
Email: lsilva7@uoregon.edu
Office: 248 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm
Sarah Stapleton
Associate Professor
College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, Curriculum & Teaching, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: sstaplet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5834
Office: 130C Lokey Education Bldg
Research Interests: climate change education, science and environmental education, food and schools, participatory research
Amanda Stasiewicz
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
Email: asta@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5031
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:45 Columbia 145B
Research Interests: human dimensions of wildfire, community and organizational adaptation to hazards, cooperative fire risk management, evacuation and alternatives to evacuation, forest and rangeland policy, qualitative and quantitative social science
Shannan Lenke Stoll
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: sstoll2@uoregon.edu
Office: 721 PLC
Peter Suechting
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Political Science
Email: psuechti@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4864
Office: 837A PLC
Research Interests: Climate Change, International/Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Politics/Comparative Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Industrial Policy
Christian Tensuan
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ctensuan@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Environmental sociology, wildfire policy and management, community based adaptation to wildfire, prescribed fire, ecology, and environmental restoration.
'Gifty' Rhodalyn Tetteh
PhD Candidate ESSP
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: gtetteh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9-11am
Research Interests: Plastic Politics, Marine Microplastic pollution, Plastics and Artisanal fishing
Ethan Torres
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ethantor@uoregon.edu
Office: Pacific 201
Office Hours: Wed 12:30-1:30pm (ELP Lab)
Research Interests: Restoration/Community Ecology, Plant-soil feedbacks, Mycorrhizae
Sarah D. Wald
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies
Peter Walker
Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: pwalker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4541
Office: 100 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Political ecology, environmental politics, climate change adaptation, wildfire, collaborative and community based resource management, land use, American West, Africa
Marsha Weisiger
Associate Professor of History
Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; Co-Director, Center for Environmental Futures
Environmental Studies, History
Email: weisiger@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4824
Office: 381 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m. or via zoom appt
Research Interests: US West, Environmental History, Native Americans
Brenna Williams
Office Generalist
She/Her
Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: bgwil@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2095
Office: Condon 107
Richard York
Director of Environmental Studies, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, SAIL, Sociology
Email: rfyork@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5064
Office: 730 PLC
Office Hours: W24: By appointment
Research Interests: Place and Environment, Population and Ecology, Theory Knowledge Science, Quantitative Approaches
Marina Yoshida
Graduate Coordinator
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: marinay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2527
Office: 308 Condon Hall