Environmental Studies

405 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2634
http://envs.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Robert R. Curry, Emeritus

Bryan H. Farrell, Emeritus

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

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

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

Sheldon Kamieniecki
Domestic and international environmental politics and policy, agenda building, strategic regulatory planning, interest groups, voting behavior and public opinion, elections, research methodology

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 interactions, participatory research, gender, and environmental issues

Michael E. Soulé, Emeritus

Associate Professor

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

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

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

Assistant Professor

Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecology; sustainable development; Latin American studies; international relations; institutional dimensions of natural resource conservation in the global south

Michael E. Loik
Plant physiological ecology, climate change ecology, biometeorology, ecohydrology

Christopher C. Wilmers
Population and community ecology, conservation biology, ecological modeling

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

Lecturer

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

Giacomo Bernardi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution

Michael K. Brown (Politics)
Inequality, race and African American politics, political economy, political development of welfare states, theories and methods of historical social science

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

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

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

Ben Crow (Sociology)
International development, sociology of water and markets, global inequality, South Asia and East Africa, political economy, and green enterprise

Daniel F. Doak (Ecology and Evolutionary 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 chan

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

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

Jonathan A. Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Latin American and Latino politics, including issues of democratization, social movements, social and environmental policy, immigration, and public interest groups

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

Diane 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

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

Daniel Guevara (Philosophy)
Kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy

Julie Guthman (Community Studies)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography

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

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; states of terror

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 (Leo) Ortiz (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiology of marine mammals, physiological integration, physiology of secretion

Ingrid M. Parker (Ecology and Evolutionary 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., environmental justice, macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America; distribution and growth in the developing world; Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform

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

Donald C. Potts (Ecology and Evolutionary 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 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology

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

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

Donald R. Smith (Environmental Toxicology)
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins

Andrew Szasz (Sociology)
Environmental sociology (environmental movements, policy, environmental justice); theory

Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology)
Social inequality and identity, research methods, race relations, nationalism and social movements

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 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology

Patricia Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
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