Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Robert R. Curry, Emeritus

Bryan H. Farrell, Emeritus

Stephen R. Gliessman
Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, natural history, tropical land use and development, ecology and management of California vegetation

David Goodman
Political economy of international environmental issues, global agri-food systems, technology, North-South relations and sustainable development, Brazilian economy and society

Deborah K. Letourneau
Agroecology, tropical biology, insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides

Paul L. Niebanck, Emeritus

James E. Pepper, Emeritus

Daniel M. Press
U.S. environmental politics and policy, social capital and democratic theory, industrial ecology, land and species conservation, regionalism

Alan R. Richards
Political economy, agricultural and economic development, economic history

Carol Shennan
Agroecology, ecosystem studies, agriculture-wetland inter-actions, participatory research, gender, and environmental issues

Michael E. Soulé, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Weixin Cheng
Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology

Margaret FitzSimmons
Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, the development and regulation of primary-sector activities and the regional integration of environmental planning and resources management institutions in urban and rural settings

Gregory S. Gilbert
Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology

Brent Haddad
Market-based regulation, property rights, economic institutions and the environment, California water institutions, renewable-resource electricity, greenhouse-gas reduction

Karen D. Holl
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology

Roberto A. Sánchez-Rodriguez
Urban ecology, environment and development in Latin America, urban and regional development, human dimensions of global environmental change, border studies

Assistant Professor

Dennis D. Kelso
Environmental policy, natural resource use, social theory, and emerging technology

Julie Lockwood
Ornithology, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology

Michael E. Loik
Plant responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental stress, climatology, implications of global environmental change for reproductive success and community composition, biogeography, physiology of ecosystem restoration

S. Ravi Rajan
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics

Erika Zavaleta
Ecology and evolutionary biology, biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, conservation

Adjunct Associate Professor

Sean Swezey
Integrated pest management and agricultural sustainability

Lecturer

Jennifer K. Anderson
Environmental interpretation/education, experiential learning, multi-cultural environmental education

Brian K. Fulfrost
Academic Coordinator, Geographic Information Systems Laboratory; data management and analysis for natural and cultural resource management, environmental monitoring, environmental and social impact assessment and environmental policy studies

Margaret H. Fusari
Natural Reserve Coordinator, vertebrate biology and ecology, conservation, natural resource planning, natural reserve management

Sarah Rabkin
Science, health, and environmental writing; journalism; the personal essay; theory and practice of diary and journal keeping; the natural history field journal as scientific tool and cultural tradition

Andrew Schiffrin
Environmental assessment, transportation, watershed management

Brian Walton
Coordinator, Predatory Bird Research Group

Suzanne P. Anderson (Earth Sciences)
Geomorphology, hydrology, weathering, glacial processes

Giacomo Bernardi (Biology)
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution

Michael K. Brown (Politics)
American politics and public policy, the political development of welfare states, political economy, African American politics since the New Deal

Kenneth W. Bruland (Ocean Sciences)
Chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry

Edmund Burke III (History)
Islamic history, modern Middle East and North African history, French history, European imperialism, world history

Monica J. Casper (Sociology)
Medical sociology, science and technology studies, gender/feminist theory, cultural studies, qualitative research, women’s health, and environmental health

Mark Cioc (History)
German history, modern European history, environmental history

Daniel P. Costa (Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds

Ben Crow (Sociology)
International development, sociology of water and markets, agriculture/peasantry, South Asia, political economy

Daniel F. Doak (Biology)
Conservation biology, population biology, plant-animal interactions

E. Melanie DuPuis (Sociology)
Economic sociology, sociology of consumption, sociology of development, political sociology, sociology of the environment, technological change, historical sociology, social theory, food and social change

James Estes (Biology and Ocean Sciences)
Marine sciences, community ecology

Andrew Fisher (Earth Sciences)
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, heat flow, modeling

Jonathan Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Latin American and Latino politics, democratization, social movements; transnational civil society coalitions with an emphasis on social and environmental policy issues in Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, and Central America

Laurel R. Fox (Biology)
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions

Diane P. Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology)
Paleolithic and Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology

James B. Gill (Earth Sciences)
Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs

Lynda J. Goff (Biology)
Algal symbiosis, host-parasite relationships, molecular evolution

Walter L. Goldfrank (Sociology)
Social change, historical sociology, world systems, modern Mexico, Chile, social movements and revolution, development theories, policies and outcomes

Gary B. Griggs (Earth Sciences)
Coastal processes, hazards and engineering

Isebill V. Gruhn, Emerita (Politics)

Daniel Guevara (Philosophy)
Kant, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, history of modern philosophy

Donna J. Haraway (History of Consciousness and Women’s Studies)
Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, and human-animal relations

Susan Harding (Anthropology)
Culture, politics, narrative, gender, local/global studies, ethnographic writing, fundamentalism, Christianity, state-making, aging, America, and Spain

Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics)
International relations; international political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society; film, fiction, and politics; technology and society

Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)
Political sociology, political economy of development, globalization, labor and work, logics of methodology, religion and social movements, Islamic society and identities, information and networks

Charles L. (Leo) Ortiz (Biology)
Physiology of marine mammals, physiological integration, physiology of secretion

Ingrid M. Parker (Biology)
Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions

Manuel Pastor Jr. (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Urban poverty and regional development, Latinos in the urban U.S., macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America; distribution, democracy, and growth in the developing world; Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform

Grant H. Pogson (Biology)
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes

Donald C. Potts (Biology)
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing

Hugh Raffles (Anthropology)
Nature, the non-human, intimacy, scale, taxonomy, writing, Brazilian Amazon

Peter T. Raimondi (Biology)
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology

Mary W. Silver (Ocean Sciences)
Biological oceanography, marine plankton, midwater ecology

Lisa C. Sloan (Earth Sciences)
Paleoclimatology, climate change, Earth system science, surficial processes

Donald R. Smith (Biology)
Organismal responses and therapeutic treatment of toxins

Andrew Szasz (Sociology)
Environmental sociology, political sociology, theory

Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology)
Methodology, stratification, race relations, social theory, Asian Americans and higher education, identity politics

Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
Culture and politics, feminist theory and gender in the U.S., social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies, ethnicity, local power and relations to the state in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.

Terrie M. Williams (Biology)
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology

Patricia Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
The relationship between women’s work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital