Environmental Studies GTF
Melody Allison
PhD Student, TA, Environmental Justice Fellow
Graduate Studies Committee
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: melodya@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays from 3-4 pm Columbia Hall 254A
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
Research Interests: Soil Science, Climate Change, Sustainable Land Management, Restoration
Ashli Blow
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies, SOJC
Email: ashlib@uoregon.edu
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Libby Bridges
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: libbyb@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: ecopedagogy, food studies, climate change, youth climate action, environmental justice
Ori Chafe
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ochafe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Isabel Christy
PhD Student, GE
Environmental Studies
Email: ichristy@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursday, 10 - 11 am
Research Interests: Soil carbon cycling, nature-based climate solutions
Madison Fowler
ESSP Doctoral student/ENG GE
Environmental Studies, English
Email: mfowlern@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 128
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm or by appt.
Research Interests: Indigenous environmental literatures, public lands, US empire, bordertowns, LAND BACK!
Kathleen Gekiere
Environmental Studies Graduate Student/ENG GE
English Graduate Student/ GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: kgekiere@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1496
Office: 255 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesday 10 -12 and by appointment.
Research Interests: Wild Horse and Burro Management, Multispecies Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, Speculative fiction, Solarpunk
Ava Guihama Olson
PhD Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: avaolson@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Tuesday 2-3PM by appointment
Research Interests: Land Back, critical whiteness studies, public lands/recreation, masculinity, eschatology, American environmental history/historiography, animal studies (carnivores), public memory, science communication
Megan Hayes
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: mhayes8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
Yumna Imtiaz
Ph. D. Candidate
Environmental Studies
Email: yimtiaz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: COL 144, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
Research Interests: Building Sciences, Architecture, Socio-technical studies of thermal comfort
Meredith Jacobson
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: mjacobs2@uoregon.edu
Office: 721 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1291
Office Hours: Fall 2024: By Appointment
Research Interests: Environmental sociology, settler colonial studies, forest and fire governance, labor, social movements
Geoffrey Johnson
ESSP/Geography PhD Candidate
Geography, Environmental Studies
Email: gmj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-525-4328
Research Interests: Forest Ecology, Environmental History, Climate Change, Human/Environment
Ashley Kemper
Graduate Employee
MS Candidate
Environmental Studies
Email: akem@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: sustainability, waste colonialism related to fashion/textiles, environmental justice, degrowth, ecology, environmental policy
Bjørn Ralf Kristensen
ABD Ph.D.
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: brk@uoregon.edu
Office: 144 COL, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
Office Hours: By appointment only during Summer 2025
Research Interests: Multispecies Studies, Animal Ethics, Medical and Public Health Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, American Pragmatism (John Dewey), Ecofeminism (Val Plumwood), Development Studies, Water and Sanitation, Informal Settlements
Lydia Lapporte
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: lapporte@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Water justice, blue humanities
Mason Leavitt
Master's Student
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: mleavit2@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2025<br />
Thursday 2:00 - 4:00 Pm
Research Interests: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, Environmental Risk Management, Environmental Justice, GIS, Pollution Liability Insurance, Landfills, Methane
Courtney Mathers
PhD Student
Environmental Studies
Email: cmathers@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: soil, carbon cycling, mycorrhizal fungi, land management
Hana Matsumoto
Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: hmatsumo@uoregon.edu