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
Phone: 425-770-9672
Office: Columbia 247
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
Ori Chafe
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ochafe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
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
Madison Fowler
ESSP Doctoral student/GE
English, 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,
Ava Guihama Olson
PhD Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: avaolson@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 128
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 or by appointment
Research Interests: Land Back, critical whiteness studies, 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
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
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.
GE for Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: brk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Office Hours: Wednesdays 8:00am to 10:00am and by appointment during Fall 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 and Sanitation, Informal Settlements
Lydia Lapporte
Graduate Employee
Environmental Studies
Email: lapporte@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Water justice, blue humanities
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
Sabina Mensah
PhD student
Environmental Studies
Email: smensah@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Waste Management,Post-harvest loss
Shannan Lenke Stoll
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: sstoll2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5003
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: By Appointment
Research Interests: Restoration/Community Ecology, Plant-soil feedbacks, Mycorrhizae
