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
Office Hours: TH 1:30-3:30pm
Research Interests: ecopedagogy, environmental justice, youth climate activism, environmental education, school gardens, food equity, critical hope
Ori Chafe
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ochafe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 COL
Isabel Christy
PhD Student
Environmental Studies
Email: ichristy@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursday, 10 - 11 am
Research Interests: Soil carbon cycling, nature-based climate solutions
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
Kathleen Gekiere
Environmental Studies Graduate Student
English Graduate Student/ GE
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 Hours: Spring 2025: Tuesday 2-3PM 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, 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: Winter 2023: By Appointment
Research Interests: Environmental sociology, settler colonial studies, forest and fire governance
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
Sabina Mensah
PhD student
Environmental Studies
Email: smensah@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Organic Waste Management, Post-harvest loss management
Nicole Schaub
Graduate Student
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: schaub@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: glaciers, environmental justice, digital media technologies, the Arctic
Nick Sky
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Environmental Studies
Email: nsky@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6512
Office: 130D Lokey Education Bldg, 5277 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5277
Shannan Lenke Stoll
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Sociology
Email: sstoll2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5003
Office: 721 PLC
Sami Stroud
ESSP Doctoral student/GE
Environmental Studies, Geography
Email: stroud@uoregon.edu
Office: Condon 105
Office Hours: Mondays 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Environmental justice, multispecies ethnography, STS, anti-colonial methods, political ecology, care and care work, ecotourism
Peter Suechting
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Political Science
Email: psuechti@uoregon.edu
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, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
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 Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Restoration/Community Ecology, Plant-soil feedbacks, Mycorrhizae
