Anthropology

Matthea Cremers

Lecturer, Environmental Studies and Anthropology

Dr. Matthea Cremers interests focus on gender and the environment. Her approach to teaching is truly interdisciplinary and, in every course, integrates elements of race, class, gender, and sustainability. Connecting the university with the local community, she works as an internship coordinator and volunteer at the South Coast Railroad Museum at Goleta Depot. As a community activist, she was part of the successful effort to preserve the Ellwood Mesa and the Coronado Butterfly Preserve (and continues to be an active member of the advisory committee of the Land Trust for Santa Barbara Country). She prides herself in using her bicycle as a major source of transportation. In her free time, she is a basket maker especially exploring the use of natural materials available in the local environment.

Select EH Courses: Gender and the Environment and Environmental Justice

Michael Gurven

Professor, Anthropology

Michael Gurven received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and specializes in the Integrative Anthropological Sciences, principally human social behavior and life history evolution. He is co-director of the Tsimane Life History and Health Project, Chair of the Integrative Anthropological Sciences Unit, and Area Director of Biodemography and Evolution at the Broom Center for Demography. He has conducted fieldwork with three South American indigenous populations, the Ache of Paraguay, and the Tsimane and Mosetene of Bolivia.

Personal homepage: www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven

Select EH Courses: Behavioral Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers, Contemporary Topics in Biological Anthropology and Human Behavioral Ecology Theory and Method

Mary Hancock

Professor, Anthropology and History

Mary Hancock received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Texas, Austin, the University of Chicago, the School of American Research, Madras Institute of Development Studies, and, most recently, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has received support for her research from the University of Pennsylvania, the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the University of California. In 1999 she was honored by the receipt of UCSB’s Plous Award, which is given annually to an assistant professor for their contributions to the intellectual and creative life of the campus. Since July 2001, she has been a member of the editorial team of the quarterly journal, Public Historian, serving as Review Editor (2001-2004) and as Co-Editor (2004-present).

Personal homepage: anth.ucsb.edu/hancock

EH Course: Space, Culture, Power

Jeffrey Hoelle

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Jeffrey Hoelle earned his Ph.D at the University of Florida. His research include economic and ecological anthropology, and conservation and development in Latin America. He is currently focused on understanding the economic and cultural factors that contribute to the expansion of cattle raising in the western Amazon state of Acre, Brazil. The project also examines the symbolic practices and preferences for a cattle-centered rural life that are expressed in cauboi (cowboy) and contri (country) popular culture in Acre. His interest in the economic, ecological, and cultural relationships between humans and cattle in Amazonia provides the foundation for an emerging research project comparing “cattle cultures” in the Americas, Africa, and India. His forthcoming book is titled Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia.

EH Course: Environmental Anthropology

Casey Walsh

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Casey Walsh earned his Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research and specializes in sociocultural anthropology, specifically relating to the political economy, Mexico-United States borderlands, water, history, commodities, and marxisms. In 2013, he received the prestigious Paul Farmer Global Citizenship Award from the Center for a Public Anthropology. He has published the book Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the Mexico-Texas Border, as well as an abundance of articles concerning the ways in which water, land and labor have been organized to produce commodities in areas marked by aridity, especially in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Select EH Courses: Borders and Borderlands and Water and Society

Art

Swati Chattopadhyay

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. Her awards include a National Science Foundation Grant, two grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a J. Paul Getty Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London, and the Society of Architectural Historian’s Founder’s Award. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She has also co-edited a special issue of PostColonial Studies focusing on “the subaltern and the popular,” and guest-edited a special section of Urban History, titled, “Suburbs in India.” She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny and Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field. Her current work includes a new book project, “Nature’s Infrastructure,” dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Select EH Courses: Nineteenth-Century Architecture, Twentieth-Century Architecture, The City in History, and Landscape of Colonialism

Nuha Khoury

Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Nuha Khoury received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a specialist in medieval and early modern Islamic architecture and urbanism (7th—9th; 16th—17th century); her work and teaching include critiques of the field, Islamic art and iconography, and modern art of the Arab world. She is the recipient of Aga Khan Fellowships, the University of California President’s Fellowship, and a J.Paul Getty Fellowship for her Constructed Ideologies and Ideal Constructions: A Socio-Architectural History of the Mosque of the Prophet in Madina. Her work appears, among other places, in Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, the Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists and the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

EH Course: Mediterranean Cities

Jane Mulfinger

Professor, Art and College of Creative Studies

Jane Mulfinger is an avid collector of human artifacts, engaging her audience in visceral and perceptual reflections on the significances of human activity in site-specific installations, performance, and sculpture. A new series of constructed photography and exterior installations focuses on the concurrent effects of time passing [duration] and the movement [migration] of masses. Concretely, along with other architectural sites, this series utilizes the neglected and deteriorating hull of architect Julia Morgan’s once elegant Pasadena YWCA building as a point of departure. Her publications have included Flash Art (Italian version), Art and Design, Contemporary Visual Art, Untitled, The Economist, The Times (London), The Guardian, and La Stampa, The Los Angeles Times and regular coverage in London’s Time-Out Magazine under the direction of Sarah Kent. Radio interviews include BBC Cambridge, Radio 1 Austria, and a video interview with Le Cube Paris, Vimeo, and Daily Motion. Most recently, she has collaborated with artist/writer Stephanie Washburn on a series of papers and exhibitions based on their mutual interest in humor in contemporary art.

Personal homepage: www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/mulfinger

EH Course: Intro to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies

Peter Sturman

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Peter Sturman received his and Ph.D. from Yale University, specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy. His dissertation on the transitional Song dynasty scholar-official painter and calligrapher Mi Youren (1074-1151) established his work as integrally related to the foundation of Song literati art. This was followed by a book on Mi Youren’s father, Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. His research interests extend back to Han dynasty mortuary objects and forward to 20th century Chinese modernist art. He actively engages in museum exhibition work and has co-authored catalogues on the modern artist Chu Ko and Qing dynasty calligraphy couplets. He is currently curating an exhibition of 17th-century painting and calligraphy on the theme of reclusion. In addition, Professor Sturman is writing a book on Northern Song literati theory and practice of painting titledPainting and the Historical Mind in Song Dynasty China.

EH Course: The Art of Chinese Landscape

Volter Welter

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Volker M. Welter received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He has worked as architectural historian, archivist, and lecturer in history of architecture in Berlin, in Scotland (University of Edinburgh and Strathclyde University, Glasgow), and in England (University of Reading). From 1998-2000 he was the recipient of a Senior Research Grant, Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles. During the academic year 2007-8, he received a Senior Fellowship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In summer 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montreal. His research focuses on Western, in particular Californian, British, and German, architecture and urbanism from the late 19th century onward. These research interests can be seen in his books Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life and Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home, among other texts he has co-authored and contributed to.

Select EH Courses: Introduction to Architecture and the Environment, Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics, and Seminar in Architecture and the Environment

Jeremy White

Non-Senate Faculty, History of Art and Architecture

Jeremy White is a licensed architect and an architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of the United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and studies architecture as a matrix of form, space, and ideology, broadly defining the built environment to include economic investment, political engagement, and social construct. He is as interested in spatial use as he is in the design of form, in the role of the architect as well as the complete life of the building, from drawing board to demolition. He is co-editor and contributing author of a book on city halls, a global architectural history of the building type; Jeremy’s chapter focuses on Los Angeles City Hall. His current projects include a housing study of Isla Vista as a dense suburb and researching historical landscape change in Santa Barbara.

Select EH Courses: Advanced Spatial Practices, Global Survey of Architecture, Architecture in the United States, Housing American Cultures: Histories of Home in North America, and Deviant Domesticities: the Development of the Suburban Landscape and its Troubled Future

Richard Wittman

Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Richard Wittman earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and specializes in the cultural history of architecture and town planning, especially of the modern and early modern periods, with secondary research emphases in theory and the historiography of architecture. His first book is titled Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, and he has written numerous other publications exploring the emergence of modern conceptions and experiences of space, in architectural, political, personal, scientific, and virtual capacities in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century France, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Rome. His current work focuses on the century-long reconstruction of the Early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome (1825-1929).

Select EH Courses: Survey: Architecture and Planning and Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West

Architecture

Swati Chattopadhyay

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. Her awards include a National Science Foundation Grant, two grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a J. Paul Getty Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London, and the Society of Architectural Historian’s Founder’s Award. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She has also co-edited a special issue of PostColonial Studies focusing on “the subaltern and the popular,” and guest-edited a special section of Urban History, titled, “Suburbs in India.” She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny and Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field. Her current work includes a new book project, “Nature’s Infrastructure,” dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Select EH Courses: Nineteenth-Century Architecture, Twentieth-Century Architecture, The City in History, and Landscape of Colonialism

Nuha Khoury

Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Nuha Khoury received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a specialist in medieval and early modern Islamic architecture and urbanism (7th—9th; 16th—17th century); her work and teaching include critiques of the field, Islamic art and iconography, and modern art of the Arab world. She is the recipient of Aga Khan Fellowships, the University of California President’s Fellowship, and a J.Paul Getty Fellowship for her Constructed Ideologies and Ideal Constructions: A Socio-Architectural History of the Mosque of the Prophet in Madina. Her work appears, among other places, in Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, the Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists and the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

EH Course: Mediterranean Cities

Peter Sturman

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Peter Sturman received his and Ph.D. from Yale University, specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy. His dissertation on the transitional Song dynasty scholar-official painter and calligrapher Mi Youren (1074-1151) established his work as integrally related to the foundation of Song literati art. This was followed by a book on Mi Youren’s father, Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. His research interests extend back to Han dynasty mortuary objects and forward to 20th century Chinese modernist art. He actively engages in museum exhibition work and has co-authored catalogues on the modern artist Chu Ko and Qing dynasty calligraphy couplets. He is currently curating an exhibition of 17th-century painting and calligraphy on the theme of reclusion. In addition, Professor Sturman is writing a book on Northern Song literati theory and practice of painting titled Painting and the Historical Mind in Song Dynasty China.

EH Course: The Art of Chinese Landscape

Volter Welter

Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Volker M. Welter received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He has worked as architectural historian, archivist, and lecturer in history of architecture in Berlin, in Scotland (University of Edinburgh and Strathclyde University, Glasgow), and in England (University of Reading). From 1998-2000 he was the recipient of a Senior Research Grant, Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles. During the academic year 2007-8, he received a Senior Fellowship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In summer 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montreal. His research focuses on Western, in particular Californian, British, and German, architecture and urbanism from the late 19th century onward. These research interests can be seen in his books Biopolis-Patrick Geddes and the City of Life and Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home, among other texts he has co-authored and contributed to.

Select EH Courses: Introduction to Architecture and the Environment, Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics, and Seminar in Architecture and the Environment

Jeremy White

Non-Senate Faculty, History of Art and Architecture

Jeremy White is a licensed architect and an architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of the United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and studies architecture as a matrix of form, space, and ideology, broadly defining the built environment to include economic investment, political engagement, and social construct. He is as interested in spatial use as he is in the design of form, in the role of the architect as well as the complete life of the building, from drawing board to demolition. He is co-editor and contributing author of a book on city halls, a global architectural history of the building type; Jeremy’s chapter focuses on Los Angeles City Hall. His current projects include a housing study of Isla Vista as a dense suburb and researching historical landscape change in Santa Barbara.

Select EH Courses: Advanced Spatial Practices, Global Survey of Architecture, Architecture in the United States, Housing American Cultures: Histories of Home in North America, and Deviant Domesticities: the Development of the Suburban Landscape and its Troubled Future

Richard Wittman

Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

Richard Wittman earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and specializes in the cultural history of architecture and town planning, especially of the modern and early modern periods, with secondary research emphases in theory and the historiography of architecture. His first book is titled Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, and he has written numerous other publications exploring the emergence of modern conceptions and experiences of space, in architectural, political, personal, scientific, and virtual capacities in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century France, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Rome. His current work focuses on the century-long reconstruction of the Early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome (1825-1929).

Select EH Courses: Survey: Architecture and Planning and Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West

Biology

Rolf Christoffersen

Associate Professor, Biology

Dr. Christoffersen received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research there was on the control of gene expression by the plant hormone ethylene. He conducted postdoctoral research at McGill University on genes involved in nitrogen fixation in plants and at the University of California, Davis on the expression and secretion of cellulase in plants. Dr. Christoffersen joined the faculty at UCSB in 1985.

EH Course: Genetic Modification of Food Crops

Black Studies

Jeffrey Stewart

Professor, Black Studies

EH Course: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Sarah Anderson

Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Sarah Anderson arrived at the Bren School in 2007, bringing expertise in political structures and dynamics, which profoundly influence environmental policy. Her research interests include legislatures, political parties, public policy, statistical methods, and environmental politics. Those interests are reflected in her experience in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a U.S. congressman’s legislative assistant and also researched legislation to brief members of the House National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee. Her current projects include an extension of her dissertation work, in which she analyzed (and found serious limitations to) the three main models for predicting government spending at the level of appropriations bills. In other projects, she is working to quantify the impact of environmentally concerned constituents on congressional voting, and seeking to determine the degree to which environmental voting, agricultural voting, and voting in other policy areas reflect more general voting in Congress.

Personal homepage: bren.ucsb.edu/~sanderson

EH Course: Environmental Policy Analysis

Raymond Clemencon

Senior Lecturer, Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Raymond Clémençon serves as Graduate Director of the Global & International Studies department and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development, an interdisciplinary and international journal established in 1992. His policy research interests and teaching cover sustainable development, political economy, international environmental institutions, agreements and negotiations, international organizations, development financing, and comparative environmental politics in Europe and the US. He has worked on international environmental policy issues since 1989 first as a government representative and later researcher and policy consultant. He has also served as Section Head at the International Affairs Division of the Swiss Environment Agency. Clémençon was one of the negotiators on the Climate Convention, the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, and the establishment of the Global Environment Facility. In the early 90s he was involved in Switzerland’s national effort to develop and implement a CO2 tax and a national sustainable development strategy.

Personal homepage: ramondclemencon.com

Select EH Courses: Global Environmental Policy and Politics, Environmental Sociology, and Green Movements and Green Parties

Timothy Daniels

Adjunct Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Robert Wilkinson’s research and teaching is focused on water and energy policy, climate change, and issues of environmental policy. He advises government agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and foundations on water policy and environmental issues. He currently serves on the public advisory committee for California’s State Water Plan, and he has represented the University of California on the Governor’s Task Force on Desalination. He has advised the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on climate research, and has served as coordinator for the climate impacts assessment of the California Region for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Select EH Courses: Water Policy and Environmental Politics and Policy

David Libecap

Professor, Economics and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Gary Libecap is Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA., the Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, PERC, Bozeman, Montana. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Montana. His research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the “Tragedy of the Commons.” Current research addresses the demarcation of land, water rights and water markets for water allocation and management, and use of rights-based arrangements in fisheries.

Personal homepage: bren.ucsb.edu/~glibecap

Select EH Courses: Collective Action and Open Access and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Robert Wilkinson

Adjunct Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Robert Wilkinson’s research and teaching is focused on water and energy policy, climate change, and issues of environmental policy. He advises government agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and foundations on water policy and environmental issues. He currently serves on the public advisory committee for California’s State Water Plan, and he has represented the University of California on the Governor’s Task Force on Desalination. He has advised the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on climate research, and has served as coordinator for the climate impacts assessment of the California Region for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Select EH Courses: Water Policy and Environmental Politics and Policy

Chemistry

Darby Feldwinn

Lecturer PSOE, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Darby Feldwinn received her PhD from UCSD, where she worked in Dr. Andrew Kummel’s laboratory researching oxides/IIIV semiconductor interfaces. During her graduate career she first took an interest in teaching and won the teaching assistant excellence award. After graduating she stayed on at UCSD for an additional year as a postdoc where she continued her research and taught general chemistry. Darby joined the UCSB faculty in 2009.

Personal homepage: chem.ucsb.edu/~feldwinn

EH Course: Green Works – Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability

Chican@ Studies

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

Associate Professor, Chican@ Studies

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside and specializes in urban and racial studies, focusing in particular on social movements as well as labor politics and economics. He is the author of Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice and is currently working on a book titled Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity.

EH Course: Race and Environmental Justice

Classics

Brice Erikinson

       Professor, Classics

Brice Erickson earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and taught at Dartmouth and DePauw before arriving at Santa Barbara. He is an archaeologist of ancient Greece specializing in Archaic and Classical (ca. 600-400 B.C.E.) ceramic sequences. His other interests include ancient Greek history, religion, and identity. His first book, a study of post-Minoan Cretan archaeology and history, was published by the American School of Classical Studies Press (Hesperia Supplement) in 2010. Brice’s next project took him to central Greece to publish the Geometric through Hellenistic (ca. 970–175 B.C.E.) remains from Lerna, a village in the Argolid. The results of this study will appear as a volume in the Lerna site publication series. In 2014 he begins a new project, a book on the Athenian Empire. It will have a more archaeological and economic focus than previous accounts that have been dominated by the ancient texts and an almost exclusively Athenian perspective.

EH Course: Greek Cities and Sanctuaries

College of Creative Studies

Jane Mulfinger

Professor, Art and College of Creative Studies

Jane Mulfinger is an avid collector of human artifacts, engaging her audience in visceral and perceptual reflections on the significances of human activity in site-specific installations, performance, and sculpture. A new series of constructed photography and exterior installations focuses on the concurrent effects of time passing [duration] and the movement [migration] of masses. Concretely, along with other architectural sites, this series utilizes the neglected and deteriorating hull of architect Julia Morgan’s once elegant Pasadena YWCA building as a point of departure. Her publications have included Flash Art (Italian version), Art and Design, Contemporary Visual Art, Untitled, The Economist, The Times (London), The Guardian, and La Stampa, The Los Angeles Times and regular coverage in London’s Time-Out Magazine under the direction of Sarah Kent. Radio interviews include BBC Cambridge, Radio 1 Austria, and a video interview with Le Cube Paris, Vimeo, and Daily Motion. Most recently, she has collaborated with artist/writer Stephanie Washburn on a series of papers and exhibitions based on their mutual interest in humor in contemporary art.

Personal homepage: www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/mulfinger

EH Course: Intro to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies

East Asian Studies

Ann-Elise Lewallen

Professor, East Asian Studies

Ann-Elise Lewallen received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on indigenous political movements and cultural revival, environmental change and indigenous survival strategies, and gender and ethnic minorities in contemporary Japan. One of lewallen’s long-term projects focuses on intersectionality issues such as the complex interplay between ethnic/social status, gender, and other marginalized subjectivities. Another long-term project focuses on eco-tourism and Ainu efforts to regain land and resource access through demonstrating sustainable practices on the land. In her forthcoming book, The Fabric of Ainu Indigeneity: Contemporary Identity and Gender in Colonial Japan, Lewallen analyzes indigenous Ainu women’s use of cultural production as an idiom of resistance against ongoing Japanese settler colonialism and for trans-generational cultural revival initiatives across the Ainu community. Lewallen has lived in urban and rural Japan since 1994 and has worked closely with the indigenous Ainu community in Hokkaido as an anthropologist and advocate during the last decade. She was in residence at Hokkaido University Faculty of Media and Communication in Fall 2014. Her research has been generously supported by the Hellman Family Fund, the UC Center for New Racial Studies,   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the Northeast Asia Council and Japan-U.S. Friendship Council. At UCSB, lewallen also serves as the Co-Convenor of the American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group, housed in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Economics

Olivier Deschenes

Associate Professor, Economics

Olivier Deschenes earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and specializes in labor economics, environmental and resource economics, health economics, and econometrics.

Personal homepage: econ.ucsb.edu/~olivier

EH Course: Climate Change

David Libecap

Professor, Economics and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Gary Libecap is Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA., the Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, PERC, Bozeman, Montana. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Montana. His research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the “Tragedy of the Commons.” Current research addresses the demarcation of land, water rights and water markets for water allocation and management, and use of rights-based arrangements in fisheries.

Personal homepage: bren.ucsb.edu/~glibecap

Select EH Courses: Collective Action and Open Access and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Paulina Oliva

Assistant Professor, Economics

Paulina Oliva received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and specializes in development economics as well as environmental and resource economics.

Personal homepage: econ.ucsb.edu/~oliva

EH Course: Environmental Economics

English

Maurizia Boscagli

Associate Professor, English

Maurizia Boscagli received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1990. Her central interests include: gender studies and feminist theory; the body; theories of subjectivity; British and European Modernism; fin de siecle literature; critical and cultural theory; and theories of mass culture. She is the author of Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century; a translation of the book Constituent Power, by Antonio Negri (forthcoming); and various articles on Masculinity, Walter Benjamin, and James Joyce.

EH Course: Cityscapes: Globalism and Urban Cultures

Janis Caldwell

Associate Professor, English

Janis Caldwell received her Ph.D. in English from University of Washington, Seattle, and her M.D. in Medicine from Northwestern University Medical School. Her central research areas include Victorian literature, science and literature, medical humanities, and literature and the mind. She is invested in encouraging dialogue and collaborative research between the fields of humanities and science.

Select EH Courses: Darwin’s Culture and Literature and Medicine

Elizabeth H. Cook

Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1990 and taught at Yale University until moving to UC Santa Barbara in 1996. Her research interests include letter-fictions, theater studies, poetry, and natural history in early modern British culture. In Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (1996), she examined how epistolary novels play with and against print culture (Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, Crèvecoeur). Her recent research focuses on early modern writing about the natural world, with articles on avian migration, botany and gender, and ‘global’ flora. She’s currently working on a manuscript provisionally titled “Talking Trees: Ethics and Others in Long-Eighteenth-C. British Literature,” which considers the history of environmental ethics in writing about trees and forests.

Select EH Courses: Cultures of Nature in the 18th Century; Writing Nature in 18th Century;   Nature and Value in Long-Eighteenth-Century British Culture; Nature in Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop; Cultural Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Making Up Monsters; Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: Nature and Value in Eighteenth Century British Culture; and Writing Early Modern Nature

Aranye Fradenburg

Professor, English, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Studies

Aranye Fradenburg holds a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and taught at Dartmouth College before moving to UCSB, where she founded the English Department’s specialization in “Literature and the Mind.” Her particular interests are psychoanalytic theory and practice, interdisciplinary study of the mind and the environment, biopoetics, and English and Scottish medieval literature. She has edited two essay collections, Women and Sovereignty and, Premodern Sexualities. She is the author of City, Marriage Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland; Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer; Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts and many articles on a variety of topics from medieval literature to cognitive literary studies and psychoanalytic technique. Her work is the topic of Still Thriving, edited by Eileen A. Joy. She is on the editorial board of several journals and a reviewer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

       Select EH Courses: Feeling, Place, and Expression and Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: Ecology and Psychology

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Professor, English

Bishnupriya Ghosh holds a doctorate from Northwestern University and specializes in postcolonial theory and global media studies. Much of her scholarly work interrogates the relations between the global and the postcolonial; area studies and transnational cultural studies; popular, mass, and elite cultures. She has published several essays on literary, cinematic, and visual culture in several collections and journals, and her first two books, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular, focused on contemporary elite and popular cultures of globalization. She is currently researching for a third monograph, The Unhomely Sense: Spectral Cinemas of Globalization that tracks the relations between globalization and cinematic/post-cinematic images. Apart from these works that directly address the question of the “global” in contemporary mediascapes, in the last three years, Ghosh has turned to risk and globalization—or, rather, how the risk media globalize technoscientific rationality. Ghosh interrogates pandemic media across localized contexts, since risk instruments, programs, and institutions are increasingly modular and scalable to global outcomes. Asking how cultural theory at present can respond to highly scienticized forms of risk that are foundational to a managerial globalization, Ghosh returns to the rich archives of “symbiotic living” of high crisis” contexts surfacing at different historical conjunctures the United States, South Africa, and India. The result is a comparative study of pandemic media on the virus, titled The Virus Touch: Living with Epidemics, undertaken on her residency at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, 2012-13.

Select EH Courses: South Asia in the Popular Media and Postcolonial and Ecological Global Imaginations

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Professor, English

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones pursued his Ph.D at Cornell University. His interests include American studies; Chicano studies; contemporary fiction; critical race studies and the culture of human rights. He is the author of Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury, Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Narrative and Legal Discourse, as well as numerous articles on literature, film, legal studies and cultural theory. He served as department Chair from 2001-2004 and is currently the Director of the Center for Chicano Studies at UCSB. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2000-2005). Professor Gutiérrez-Jones is currently at work on a book that examines the literature of human rights.

EH Course: Science Fiction

Ken Hiltner, EHI Director

Professor, English and Environmental Studies

Ken Hiltner received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he garnered a number of distinctions, including the Bowdoin Prize. He has published five books, including Milton and Ecology, What Else is Pastoral?, Renaissance Ecology, and Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader, and a range of environmentally oriented articles. Hiltner has served as Director of UCSB’s Literature & Environment Center, its Early Modern Center, the English Department’s graduate program, and as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University’s Environmental Institute.

Select EH courses: Introduction to Literature and the Environment (featured course), The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change, Milton and Ecology, Theories of Literature and the Environment, Pastoral, and Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Spring 2015)

Alan Liu

Professor, English

Alan Liu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was previously on the faculty of Yale University’s English Department and British Studies Program. He served as chair of the UCSB English department for four years and also teaches in the Media Arts & Technology graduate program. He is the founder of a website for humanities research, Voice of the Shuttle, and began to study information culture as a way to close the circuit between the literary or historical imagination and the technological imagination. He has published Wordsworth: The Sense of History, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. He founded the NEH-funded Teaching with Technology project at UC Santa Barbara called Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information, as well as his English Dept’s undergraduate specialization on Literature and the Culture of Information. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization and chair of the Technology/Software Committee of the organization’s Preservation / Archiving /Dissemination of Electronic Literature Initiative and worked on such initiatives as Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Socail, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading, Research-oriented Social Environment, and 4Humanities. Liu is currently working on a series of philosophical and practical essays on media histories, the digital humanities, and their impact on the institutions and practices of the humanities. These will converge in two books, tentatively titled Media, History and Digital, Humanities.

Select EH Courses: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace; Media Ecology; Textuality and New Media Ecologies, 1600-2000; Artificial Life; and Romantic Landscape

Russel Samolsky

Associate Professor, English

Russell Samolsky’s research interests include South African literature, Jewish studies, animal studies, and the global humanities. His book, Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, which takes account of the complex relationship between past apocalyptic texts and future catastrophic events, has recently been published by Fordham University Press. His current book project, “Killing Dogs,” examines the place of the dog in the contemporary literary and theoretical discourse on the question of the animal.

Select EH courses: Thinking about Animals in Literature & Film; Literature and Atrocity; Animal Matters: Animality, Materiality, Technology; Animal Theory; and Animality and Materiality in Contemporary Theory

Tess Shewry

Assistant Professor, English

Teresa Shewry holds a PhD in Literature from Duke University and an MA in English and BA in Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand. Teresa’s research engages the intersections between Pacific and Pacific Rim cultures and environmental studies, with a particular emphasis on water and the ocean. Her book, Possible Ecologies, explores hope in the context of environmental change in the Pacific. Teresa is co-organizing an upcoming Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sea Change.” She is a Research Associate of Leiden University College Research Centre in The Hague during 2012-2014.

Select EH Courses: Literature and the Environment: Imagining Asia and the Pacific; Water    Imaginations; Literature of the Pacific; Indigenous Literatures and Environmental Politics; Utopia and Ecology; Time, Space, and Ecology; Utopia and the Environment; and Sea Change

Candace Waid

Professor, English

Candace Waid received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her central interests include American literature and culture, African American literature, Southern literature, Native American literature, gender studies, and the visual arts. Professor Waid’s books include Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing, The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner’s Art, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. She has published essays and articles on Welty, Chesnutt, Wharton, and Faulkner, among other authors, as well as numerous editions of Wharton’s works. She recently published “Faulkner and Southern Literature: Reading the Reverse Slave Narrative,” in the Cambridge History of the American Novel.

EH Course: Native American Writers

Environmental Studies

Peter Alagona

Assistant Professor, History, Geography, and Environmental Studies

Peter Alagona holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work focuses on the histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in California and the American West, with a particular interest in wildlife, endangered species, and biodiversity conservation. He has written a number of articles on these topics, and he teaches related courses at UCSB. His book, After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California examines the intertwined histories of endangered species and habitat conservation in California and beyond. He is currently working on a related project about the history of steelhead trout taxonomy as it pertains to larger questions about how best to define and conserve biological species. He is also currently working on a project that uses the University of California’s Natural Reserve System as a laboratory for conducting landscape-scale environmental history, and for understanding the role of field stations in shaping American environmental science, policy, and management.

Personal homepage: peteralagona.com

Select EH Courses: History of the Oceans, Research in Environmental History, Workshop in Environmental History, and Wildlife in America

Celia Alario

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Celia Alario is a communications strategist, media coach and facilitator, working at the intersection of campaigning, grassroots organizing, media and marketing. In the last 20 years Alario has helped spin groundbreaking media campaigns, provided one-on-one trainings for dozens of incoming Communications Directors, trained hundreds of grassroots spokespeople and placed thousands of stories about critical social justice and environmental issues in media outlets worldwide. Celia Alario has also worked as a journalist and producer. She was a field producer on Michael Moore’s Emmy-nominated television show “The Awful Truth” and produced and hosted news programming at Pacifica Radio’s KPFA in Berkeley, California and KZMU in Moab, Utah. She has served as an Engagement Producer, designing outreach campaigns for a number of award-winning documentaries and television programs, including Firestorm, On Coal River, Sir! No Sir!, The Greater Good, Bowling for Columbine, Trade Off and Building Green.

EH Course: Environmental Communications: Contemporary Strategies and Tactics

Jordan Clark

Professor, Environmental Studies and Earth Sciences

Jordan Clark’s research is focused on understanding hydrological and geochemical interactions that occur near the earth’s surface and the effects of external anthropogenic and climatic forcing on these interactions. His graduate studies on the Hudson River and, more recently, his research on Aquifer Storage and Recovery in California and aspects of the study on natural marine hydrocarbon seepage are examples of an effort to work on fundamental aspects of regional environmental problems. The remainder of his research time is spent examining geochemical problems related to global cycles and climate change (both recent and glacial/interglacial). His research on the hydrochemistry of springs, paleo-proxy data stored in groundwater, and methane emissions from hydrocarbon seepage illustrate this effort. Although his work examines problems in different environments, it is united by a common set of questions: how do transport processes affect water chemistry and quality and what are the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic forcing on water chemistry and flow.

Select EH Courses: Drinking Water for the 21st Century and Mono Lake, Owens Valley, and LA’s Water Supply

David Cleveland

Professor, Environmental Studies

David Cleveland is a human ecologist who has done research and development project work on sustainable agrifood systems with small-scale farmers and gardeners around the world, including in Bawku (Ghana), Oaxaca (Mexico), Zuni and Hopi (southwest USA), North-West Frontier Province (Pakistan) and Santa Barbara County (California, USA). He earned a Ph.D. in ecological anthropology from the University of Arizona, and his research and teaching focus on sustainable, small-scale agrifood systems, including plant breeding and conservation of crop genetic diversity, local and scientific knowledge and collaboration between farmers and scientists, climate change, nutrition and food sovereignty. In addition to teaching in the Environmental Studies department, he is an affiliated member of Geography; Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology; and Anthropology. He is currently researching the potential for agrifood system localization to improve nutrition, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and strengthen communities in Santa Barbara County, California and the US; and on the genetic, ecological and sociocultural impact of genetically engineered crop varieties globally. His latest book is Balancing on a Planet: The Future of Food and Agriculture.

Personal homepage: www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/cleveland/

Select EH Courses: World Agriculture, Food, and Population; The Santa Barbara County Agrifood System; Small Scale Food Production and Biotechnology, Food, Agriculture

Matthea Cremers

Lecturer, Environmental Studies and Anthropology

Dr. Matthea Cremers interests focus on gender and the environment. Her approach to teaching is truly interdisciplinary and, in every course, integrates elements of race, class, gender, and sustainability. Connecting the university with the local community, she works as an internship coordinator and volunteer at the South Coast Railroad Museum at Goleta Depot. As a community activist, she was part of the successful effort to preserve the Ellwood Mesa and the Coronado Butterfly Preserve (and continues to be an active member of the advisory committee of the Land Trust for Santa Barbara Country). She prides herself in using her bicycle as a major source of transportation. In her free time, she is a basket maker especially exploring the use of natural materials available in the local environment.

Select EH Courses: Gender and the Environment and Environmental Justice

Ken Hiltner, EHI Director

Professor, English and Environmental Studies

Ken Hiltner received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he garnered a number of distinctions, including the Bowdoin Prize. He has published five books, including Milton and Ecology, What Else is Pastoral?, Renaissance Ecology, and Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader, and a range of environmentally oriented articles. Hiltner has served as Director of UCSB’s Literature & Environment Center, its Early Modern Center, the English Department’s graduate program, and as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University’s Environmental Institute.

Select EH courses: Introduction to Literature and the Environment (featured course), The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change, Milton and Ecology, Theories of Literature and the Environment, Pastoral, and Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Spring 2015)

Linda Krop

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Linda Krop received her J.D. from Santa Barbara College of Law. She has been teaching Environmental Law and Land Use and Planning and Law at UCSB since 2006. She brings a practitioner’s perspective to her courses, having been a lawyer at the Environmental Defense Center since 1989, and Chief Counsel at the EDC since 1999. She specializes in offshore energy, open space preservation, land use, and marine resource protection issues. She has also taught Environmental Law and Planning Law at the Santa Barbara College of Law and UC Extension. She currently serves as the Conservation representative on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council and chair the Sanctuary’s Conservation Working Group.

EH Course: Principles of Environmental Law

Simone Pulver

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies

Simone Pulver received her doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and also holds an MA in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, as well as a BA in Physics from Princeton University. Her principal areas of specialization are global environmental politics, organizational theory, and the sociology of development. Before coming to UCSB, she was a research professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and the Center for Environmental Studies. She is currently directing an NSF funded project that investigates clean energy investments by developing-country firms in India and Brazil under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. She also has an ongoing project that maps climate policy networks in Mexico.

EH Course: Critical Thinking about Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

Lori Pye

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Lori Pye received her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and teaches Ecopsychology in the Environmental Studies Program at UCSB. Her work strives to bridge the sciences and humanities with her vocation in marine conservation. She has directed international NGO’s (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ocean Futures educational program) and founded several of her own organizations. One of her major projects that initiated her founding of Terra Azul in Costa Rica was to collaborate in the effort to stop shark finning. Working with hundreds of NGO’s, she co-developed the Eastern Tropical Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment from Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador.

Personal Homepage: mythology.org

Select EH Courses: Human Environmental Rights and Ethics of Human-Environment Relations

Paul Wack

Senior Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Mr. Paul Wack holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Arts degree in Urban Geography from California State University, Northridge. He has had a very distinguished career as an environmental planning professional in both the private and public sectors during the past twenty-three years. He has served in a variety of planning advisory roles for cities and counties throughout California, including the County of Ventura, the County of Santa Barbara, and the City of Santa Barbara. He is the former chair of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission.

EH Course: Film and the Environment

Feminist Studies

Grace Chang

Associate Professor, Feminist Studies

Grace Chang earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the Political Economy of Globalization, Human Trafficking, and Immigrant Women. She has published two books, Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency and Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy, and is currently working on a new book titled Trafficking by Any Other Name: Immigrant and Sex Worker Rights Responses. She runs Women Of color Revolutionary Dialogues (WORD), a collective of women and queer people of color, immigrants, working-class and first-generation college students seeking to give better representations of the lives and struggles of immigrant and working-class women and queer people of color in the United States and beyond. WORD writes, directs and performs original pieces based on their lives and experiences.

EH Course: Women, Development, and Globalization

Film & Media Studies

Dick Hebdige

Professor, Film and Media Studies

Dick Hebdige received his M.A. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is best known for his influential book in subcultural studies, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979. He has been teaching in art schools since the mid-1970s. Having served as the Dean of Critical Studies and the Director of the experimental writing program at the California Institute of the Arts before going to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently a professor of film and media studies and art. Hebdige’s 1979 book Subculture: The Meaning of Style builds on earlier work at Birmingham on youth subcultures. But whereas much of this research was concerned with the relation between subcultures and social class in postwar Britain, Hebdige saw youth cultures in terms of a dialogue between Black and white youth. He argues that punk emerged as a mainly white style when Black youth became more separatist in the 1970s in response to discrimination in British society. Whereas previous research described a homology between the different aspects of a subcultural style (dress, hairstyle, music, drugs), Hebdige argues that punk in London in 1976-77 borrowed from all previous subcultures and its only homology was chaos. In making this argument he was drawing on the early work of Julia Kristeva who also found such subversion of meaning in French poets such as Mallarmé and Lautréamont. Hebdidge also wrote Cut ‘n’ Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (1987) on Caribbean music and identity, and Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (1988) a book of essays that includes some further thoughts about punk. In 2008 he contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

EH Course: Environmental Topics in Film and Television Analysis

Janet Walker

Professor, Film and Media Studies

Janet Walker holds a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles and is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Feminist Studies and the Comparative Literature Program. She is also co-convener of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group of the Carsey-Wolf Center. With research specializations including documentary film and media, trauma and memory studies, and media and environment, Walker is author of four books Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry; Feminism and Documentary; Westerns: Films through History; and Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust, and also recently co-edited with Bhaskar Sarkar, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering. Turning towards spatial media studies, Walker is co-organizer of the 2012-13 theme, “Figuring Sea Level Rise,” of the campus’s Critical Issues in America series. She has been engaging in site-specific research in Israel-Palestine and in post-Katrina New Orleans for a book about media and geography. Walker is the recipient of grants from the California Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and of a Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB in 2001.

Select EH Courses: Film and Media of the Natural and Human Environment, Media and Geography, and Imaging and Imagining Sea Level Rise

Geography

Peter Alagona

Assistant Professor, History, Geography, and Environmental Studies

Peter Alagona holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work focuses on the histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in California and the American West, with a particular interest in wildlife, endangered species, and biodiversity conservation. He has written a number of articles on these topics, and he teaches related courses at UCSB. His book, After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California examines the intertwined histories of endangered species and habitat conservation in California and beyond. He is currently working on a related project about the history of steelhead trout taxonomy as it pertains to larger questions about how best to define and conserve biological species. He is also currently working on a project that uses the University of California’s Natural Reserve System as a laboratory for conducting landscape-scale environmental history, and for understanding the role of field stations in shaping American environmental science, policy, and management.

Personal homepage: peteralagona.com

Select EH Courses: History of the Oceans, Research in Environmental History, Workshop in Environmental History, and Wildlife in America

Oliver Chadwick

       Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences

Oliver Chadwick has a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and is considered one of the world’s leading scientists in relating soils to ecology and Earth system science. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA); the award is the highest honor the Society bestows on its members. Oliver has served as the Chair of the Department since July 2006 and his current research interests include pedology, geomorphology, quaternary geology, soil-water-vegetation interaction and landscape relationships, and isotropic fractionations during soil evolution.

Personal homepage: Pedology Home Page

EH Course: Land, Water, and Life

Richard Church

Professor, Geography

Richard Church specializes in the analysis of problems defined over space and time, including logistics and transportation, location theory, water resource systems, and urban and environmental systems using and developing new techniques in Operations Research, GIS, Decision Theory, and Heuristics. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Church has taught courses in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Geography. He has published over 180 papers and research reports in a variety of fields, including Geography, Transportation, Location Science, Environmental Engineering, Operations Research, and Water Resources.

Personal Homepage: geog.ucsb.edu/~forest

EH Course: Urban and Environmental System Analysis

Kostas Goulias

Professor, Geography

Konstadinos (Kostas) Goulias is a professor of transportation in the Geography Department at the University of California Santa Barbara and co-director of the GeoTrans laboratory. From 1991 to 2004, he was a professor of transportation in the Department of Civil Engineering at PennState where he was also director of different research units. He served as chair of the Traveler Behavior and Values Committee (now serving as emeritus member) and chair of the Task Force on Moving Activity-based Approaches to Practice both of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies in the United States. He edited three books, authored and co-authored more than 270 papers and reports to sponsor, and serves on a variety of editorial and research boards, peer review panels, and committees. He is also co-founding editor (with Kouros Mohammadian) of the journal Transportation Letters. Kostas has a Laurea in Engineering degree (5 years and a thesis) from University of Calabria in Italy (1986), MS in Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1987), and Ph.D. from University of California at Davis (1991). Most of his research is in travel behaviour dynamics and microsimulation.

Personal homepage: kgoulias.com

       EH Course: Transportation Planning & Modeling

Hugo Loaiciga

Professor, Geography

Hugo Loaiciga earned a doctorate from the University of California, Davis in Water Resources and Hydrology. He served as the Water Commissioner for the City of Santa Barbara for six years before joining the Geography Department in 1988. He received the 2002 Service to the Profession Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute for his “longstanding contributions to research and technical activities” of the two groups, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his “outstanding contributions to the planning, analysis, and operation of water resources engineering” in 2007. He is currently working on projects concerning groundwater and earthquake hazards, stormwater management in urban areas, watershed management and other hydrology and water resources problems through multiple collaborations. He has several other pending projects, including land subsidence and water/energy sustainable development.

Personal homepage: geog.ucsb.edu/~hugo

Select EH Courses: Environmental Hydrology and Water Resource Systems Analysis

David López-Carr

Professor, Geography

David Lopez-Carr is a Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (with an adjunct position at San Diego State University Department of Geography), where he is Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS) and directs the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab (HED). He holds affiliate positions in three UCSB interdisciplinary programs: Global and International Studies (GIS), and Marine Studies (IPMS), and is a research associate with the University of California Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS). He received a BA in Spanish Literature (with a minor in Geology) from Bates College and a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina, where he also held a NIH post-doctoral fellowship in Biostatistics in the School of Public Health and Carolina Population Center. He has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Latin America and in over 70 countries worldwide. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and rudimentary Q’eqchí Maya.

Select EH Courses: Human Dimensions of Global Change, Food Security, Food Systems, and Global Change, Sea Change, Population, Development, and Environment, and Population Geography.

Joe McFadden

Associate Professor, Geography and Institute for Computational Earth System Science

Joe McFadden holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Integrative Biology and specializes in land-use and land-cover change, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Earth system science, sustainability science, and urban ecology. He has written a number of articles and publications in these areas of interest and continues his research through the Institute for Computational Earth System Science of the Earth Research Institute at UCSB.

EH Course: The Urban Environment

Dan Montello

       Professor, Geography

Dan Montello received his Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology from Arizona State University. His research interests include spatial perception, cognition, and behavior; cognitive issues in cartography and GIS; spatial aspects of social behavior; and environmental psychology and behavioral geography. Dan is also an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Psychology, the former Chair of the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Emphasis Program, a previous Vice Chair of the Department of Geography (10 years), and he is currently an Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters & Science.

Personal homepage: geog.ucsb.edu/~montello

Select EH Courses: Environmental Perception and Cognition, Behavioral Geography, and Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Science

Dar Roberts

Professor, Geography

Dar Roberts holds a doctorate from the University of Washington and is currently the chair of the Geography department at UCSB. He is the author of over 108 refereed publications, over 15 books/book chapters and over 100 abstracts and non-refereed articles. His research interests include imaging spectrometry, remote sensing of vegetation, spectroscopy (urban and natural cover), land-use/land-cover change mapping with satellite time series, height mapping with lidar, fire danger assessment and, recently remote sensing of methane. He has worked with hyperspectral data since 1984 and broad band sensors such as MSS and TM over the same period, as well as Synthetic Aperture Radar. More recently he has been working with Lidar. He is the UCSB Principal Investigator of the Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center and leads the group in developing wildfire fuels maps and mapping fuel moisture using remote sensing.

Personal homepage: UCSB Viper Lab

Select EH Courses: Land, Water, and Life; Environmental Impacts in Human History; Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics; Spatial Environmental Modeling; and Measuring our Environment

David Siegel

Professor, Geography and Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science

David Siegel earned his doctorate at the University of Southern California. His research interests include interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales and specifically, satellite ocean color remote sensing and optical oceanography, scale interaction in ecological and population systems, the role of radiative exchange in air-sea interactions, and data information systems. His professional service includes serving on the science steering committee for the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, the U.S. Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study, the NASA Strategic Road Mapping Committee for Earth Sciences and Applications, the research activities panel of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, and the science panel of the state-federal process that designated no-take marine reserves around the Northern Channel Islands in California. He is the Director of both the Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) and SPOT at UCSB (a satellite imagery program derived from Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre – a system of Earth observing satellites owned by a European consortium).

Personal homepage: icess.ucsb.edu/~davey

EH Course: Oceans and Atmosphere

Stuart Sweeney

Associate Professor, Geography

In addition to his teaching in the Geography department, Stuart Sweeney also serves as Director of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at UC Santa Barbara. After earning a BA from UC San Diego, he completed his Ph.D. (1999) in City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His diverse academic research interests span topics from applied statistics, spatial analysis, economic geography, demography, and development. In addition to academic research, he consults for government agencies; most recently developing small area population and enrollment projections for the Southern California Association of Governments. Stuart won the 1999 Springer-Verlag Award for the Best Paper at the Western Regional Science Association’s Annual Meeting, he was nominated for the UCSB Plous Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2005, and his innovative course, “The Geography of Surfing,” has attracted national media coverage.

Personal homepage: geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney

Select EH Courses: People, Place, Environment; Urban Geography; Population, Development, and the Environment; and Geography of Surfing

Libe Washburn

Professor, Geography and Institute for Computational Earth System Science

Libe Washburn earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include coastal circulation, mesoscale processes, air-sea interaction, and interdisciplinary oceanography. His current project, Observing the Surface: Circulation along the South-Central California Coast Using High Frequency Radar: Consequences for Larval and Pollutant Dispersal involves conducting experiments which combine observations from drifters and HF radars to assess the accuracy of current velocities derived from HF radar.

Personal homepage: geog.ucsb.edu/~washburn

EH Course: Physical Geography of the World’s Oceans

Germanic Studies

Global Studies

Paul Amar

Associate Professor, Global & International Studies

Paul Amar specializes in comparative politics, human geography, international security studies, political sociology, global ethnography, theories of the state, and theories of gender, race, and postcolonial politics. He holds affiliate appointments in Feminist Studies, Sociology, Comparative Literature, Middle East Studies, and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Prof. Amar’s research, publishing and teaching focuses on the areas of state institutions, security regimes, social movements, and democratic transitions in the Middle East and Latin America, and traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the global south. His books include: The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism; Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Diane Singerman; New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics; Global South to the Rescue: Emergent Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries; Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East with Vijay Prashad; and Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South.

EH Course: Global Cities and Transnational Urbanism

Raymond Clemencon

Senior Lecturer, Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Raymond Clémençon serves as Graduate Director of the Global & International Studies department and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development, an interdisciplinary and international journal established in 1992. His policy research interests and teaching cover sustainable development, political economy, international environmental institutions, agreements and negotiations, international organizations, development financing, and comparative environmental politics in Europe and the US. He has worked on international environmental policy issues since 1989 first as a government representative and later researcher and policy consultant. He has also served as Section Head at the International Affairs Division of the Swiss Environment Agency. Clémençon was one of the negotiators on the Climate Convention, the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, and the establishment of the Global Environment Facility. In the early 90s he was involved in Switzerland’s national effort to develop and implement a CO2 tax and a national sustainable development strategy.

Personal homepage: ramondclemencon.com

Select EH Courses: Global Environmental Policy and Politics, Environmental Sociology, and Green Movements and Green Parties

Hilal Elver

Research Professor, Global Studies

Hilal Elver is a Research Professor of Global Studies and is co-director of the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy housed at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at UCSB. She has a law degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Ankara Law School where she started her teaching career. During this period, she was also appointed by the Turkish government as the founding legal advisor of the Ministry of Environment. Later she became the General Director of Women’s Studies in the Office of the Prime Minister. In 1994, she was appointed to the UNEP Chair in Environmental Diplomacy by the United Nations Environment Program at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. Since 1996 she has been teaching at several American universities. In 1993 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Arbor, and 1996-1998 she was a visiting fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University. Her publications have focused mainly on international environmental law, and international human rights law. Her book, Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: Case of Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, was published in 2002. Currently she is working on a book project dealing with secularism and human rights in the Islamic world. She teaches comparative law, international human rights, and environmental law.

EH Course: Global Environmental Law and Policy

Richard Widick

Visiting Scholar, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies

Richard Widick holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he lectured on theory, culture, media, globalization, social movements and environment before coming to the Orfalea Center. He is the author of Trouble in the Forest: California’s Redwood Timber Wars, an ethnography, cultural analysis, and 150 year social history of the US colonization and industrialization of California’s northern redwood region, a history of the Indian wars and labor trouble that set the legal, social and ecological conditions for converging peoples, labor and environmental movements in the present era of globalization. In preparation of a new manuscript The International Climate Wars, he has conducted fieldwork with collaborator John Foran (sociology, UCSB) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 17 (COP17), in Durban, South Africa, 2011, and will attend the upcoming COP18 at Doha, Qatar, in the fall of 2012. Widick and Foran are founders and co-directors of The International Institute of Climate Action & Theory (iicat), and publicize their climate-related work at iicat.org.

Select EHC Course: Revolutions: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

History

Peter Alagona

Assistant Professor, History, Geography, and Environmental Studies

Peter Alagona holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work focuses on the histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in California and the American West, with a particular interest in wildlife, endangered species, and biodiversity conservation. He has written a number of articles on these topics, and he teaches related courses at UCSB. His book, After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California examines the intertwined histories of endangered species and habitat conservation in California and beyond. He is currently working on a related project about the history of steelhead trout taxonomy as it pertains to larger questions about how best to define and conserve biological species. He is also currently working on a project that uses the University of California’s Natural Reserve System as a laboratory for conducting landscape-scale environmental history, and for understanding the role of field stations in shaping American environmental science, policy, and management.

Personal homepage: peteralagona.com

Select EH Courses: History of the Oceans, Research in Environmental History, Workshop in Environmental History, and Wildlife in America

Sharon Farmer

Professor, History

Sharon Farmer earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University. Her current academic interests include medieval women and gender, relations between Northern France and the Mediterranean, medieval environmental history, and forms of vulnerability in pre-modern societies. She is author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (1991), Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor (2001), and an editor of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages (2002) and the exhibition catalogue Framing the Word: The Making of the Modern Bible, c. 1250-1611 (UCSB library’s department of Special Collections, May 15 – July 15 2011). Professor Farmer has a strong interest in public engagement through her research and has participated in the UCSB Humanities Centre’s series on “Public Goods”, speaking in conjunction with modern researchers on poverty.

EH Course: Society and Nature in the Middle Ages

Mary Hancock

Professor, Anthropology and History

Mary Hancock received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Texas, Austin, the University of Chicago, the School of American Research, Madras Institute of Development Studies, and, most recently, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has received support for her research from the University of Pennsylvania, the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the University of California. In 1999 she was honored by the receipt of UCSB’s Plous Award, which is given annually to an assistant professor for their contributions to the intellectual and creative life of the campus. Since July 2001, she has been a member of the editorial team of the quarterly journal, Public Historian, serving as Review Editor (2001-2004) and as Co-Editor (2004-present).

Personal homepage: anth.ucsb.edu/hancock

EH Course: Space, Culture, Power

Lisa Jacobson

       Associate Professor, History

Lisa Jacobson is a cultural historian of the twentieth-century United States, with research interests that span a variety of subfields, including the histories of consumption, family and childhood, business, gender, and food and alcohol. One unifying thread in all her research is the broad question of how new markets are created, challenged, and legitimized. Her book, Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (2004), examines how the alternately competing and complementary agendas of advertisers, parents, child experts, educators, and children themselves shaped and defined a distinctive children’s consumer culture in the early twentieth century. Her new project—a comparative study of vintners, brewers, and distillers—examines how alcohol producers, advertisers, popular media, tastemakers, and consumers forged distinctive (and sometimes antagonistic) cultures of drink in the four decades following Prohibition’s repeal in 1933. Alcohol may seem far afield from children’s consumer culture, but both represent morally ambiguous markets that test social and cultural boundaries and continually face challenges to their legitimacy. Lisa holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

EH Course: Food in World History

Alice O’Connor

Professor, History

Alice O’Connor holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Her primary focus lies in modern U.S. history and public policy. Her books include Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History, Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities (co-edited with Chris Tilly and Lawrence Bobo), Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Politics (co-edited with Gwendolyn Mink).

EH Course: American Urban History

Gabriela Soto-Laveaga

       Associate Professor, History

Gabriela Soto-Laveaga holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and her research focuses on the history of science, knowledge production, circulation of knowledge, history of medicine and public health. She is currently finishing a book project which examines public health and social movements in 1960s Mexico City. Her next research project examines the scientific connections between Mexico and India in the mid-twentieth century. Her most recent book, Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of The Pill, was a winner of the 2010 Robert K. Merton Best Book Award in Science, Knowledge and Technology from the American Sociological Association.

       EH Course: Ecological Imperialism: Science, Nature, and Conquest in Latin America

Interdisciplinary Studies

Political Science

Eric Smith

Professor, Political Science

Professor Smith’s research focuses on environmental politics, public opinion, and elections. In the area of environmental politics, he has been examining public opinion toward offshore oil development, nuclear power, wind power, energy crises, and climate change. He recently finished a book about public opinion on energy and environmental issues, Energy, the Environment, and Public Opinion. Professor Smith is currently working on two major projects: an exploration of the influence of public opinion, business interests, and environmental activists on energy policy during energy crises and an examination of the implications in the eventual decline of world oil production (so-called “peak oil”) for U.S. energy policy and climate change policy. Professor Smith received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1982. After teaching at Brandeis University and Columbia University, he joined the U.C. Santa Barbara Political Science Department in 1986. In 1995-96, he directed U.C. Santa Barbara’s Washington Center. He is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and the Environmental Studies Program at UCSB.

EH Course: Politics of the Environment and Environmental Politics and Policy

Religious Studies

Inéz Talamontez

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Inéz Talamontez holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. She specializes in Native American studies, exploring this area in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature. She arrived at UCSB in 1979 from Dartmouth College to develop the area of Native American Religious Traditions. Since then she has developed ten undergraduate courses in this area of study and has taught a variety of graduate seminars. She co-edited Teaching Religion and Healing (AAR Teaching Religious Studies), a volume designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions and cultural communities. Professor Talamontez’s emphasis on teaching and mentoring is critical to her work, as is field research.

EH Course: Religion and Ecology in the Americas

Christine Thomas

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

After an appointment as a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard, Christine Thomas joined the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB. She is presently a Visiting Scholar for the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Secretary of Council on the Executive Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature. A veteran of twenty years of fieldwork in Southwestern Turkey, she has been a member of the excavation team of the Austrian Archaeological Excavations at Ephesos, and has directed a project with the Metropolis Excavations at Torbali, outside of Izmir. Each year with the Colloquiua on Material Culture and Ancient Religion, she leads study seminars for scholars of Early Christianity to the major archaeological sites of the Mediterranean. She has written extensively on ancient Christian literature and on the religions of Asia Minor in the Roman Imperial Period. Most recently, her research has focused on theoretical issues surrounding the use of archaeological evidence for the study of religion; material aspects of religion in the Roman Empire (spaces, objects, practices); and the urban context of early Christianity.

Select EH Courses: The Sacred Geography of the Ancient Mediterranean World and The Transformation of the Late Antique City

Sociology

Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Professor, Sociology

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology. Her research interest lie within development, feminist and cultural studies. She has published a number of books and articules including Taling Politics (1991, Cambridge University Press), Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms (Sage 1994: co-edited with An Phoenix), Feminism and ‘Race’ (2001, Oxford University Press) and Feminist Futures (Zed 2003: co-edited with Johan Foran and Priya Kurian). In 2006 she completed a feature documentary film, THE SHAPE OF WATER (narrated by Susan Sarandon (http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com) which took four years to complete and spans three continents. She is now starting work on her next film.

Personal homepage: http://nothinglikechocolate.com/

EH Course: Women, Culture, and Development

Raymond Clemencon

Senior Lecturer, Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Raymond Clémençon serves as Graduate Director of the Global & International Studies department and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environment and Development, an interdisciplinary and international journal established in 1992. His policy research interests and teaching cover sustainable development, political economy, international environmental institutions, agreements and negotiations, international organizations, development financing, and comparative environmental politics in Europe and the US. He has worked on international environmental policy issues since 1989 first as a government representative and later researcher and policy consultant. He has also served as Section Head at the International Affairs Division of the Swiss Environment Agency. Clémençon was one of the negotiators on the Climate Convention, the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, and the establishment of the Global Environment Facility. In the early 90s he was involved in Switzerland’s national effort to develop and implement a CO2 tax and a national sustainable development strategy.

Personal homepage: ramondclemencon.com

Select EH Courses: Global Environmental Policy and Politics, Environmental Sociology, and Green Movements and Green Parties

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

Professor, Sociology

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi’s holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and her intellectual and research interests mainly fall within the areas of politics and culture. More specifically, she is concerned with studying the political as a site of cultural discourse, cultural identity, and cultural production. Her book, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy, for example, employed the category of “aesthetic politics” to analyze the role that symbolic discourse — in the guise of myths, rituals, images and speeches – played in the making of the fascist regime and the construction of Mussolini’s power. The book she recently completed, Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie, in contrast, utilizes the notion of the “sacred” to explore the influence of Durkheimian sociology upon 1930s French analyses of the nature of politics and the “crisis of democracy.” Through the case study of the Collège, with all the issues and controversies that it raised, the book intends both to reflect upon and generate theories about the relationship between the sacred, community, power and democratic institutions.

EH Course: Consumption, Waste, and the Environment

John Foran

       Professor, Sociology

John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also involved with the programs in Latin American and Iberian Studies, Global and International Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Bren School. He was visiting professor of sociology and Latin American Studies at Smith College from and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. His current areas of interest include the comparative study of 20th-century revolutions and 21st-century radical social change, development, climate, and globalization, and the global justice and climate justice movements. His books include Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution, A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran, Theorizing Revolutions, The Future of Revolutions: Re-thinking Radical Change in an Age of Globalization, Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development, Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity, On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions, and Taking Power: On the Origins of Revolutions in the Third World. He is currently working on a book, Taking Power or (Re)Making Power: Movements for Radical Social Change and Global Justice and is also engaged in a long-term research project on the global climate justice movement.

       Select EH Courses: Earth in Crisis and Climate Justice

Theater and Dance

Writing

Leeanne Kryder

Lecturer, Writing

LeeAnne G. Kryder directs the Business Communication track of the Professional Writing Minor, and teaches professional writing (business, environmental, and managerial) at UCSB, in the Writing Program and Training & Development. Prior to teaching at UCSB, Dr. Kryder worked in the computer field as a manager, systems analyst, and technical writer. She serves as a campus agent for sustainability.

Select EH Courses: American Environmental Literature and Writing for Environmental Studies

Amy Propen

Lecturer, Writing

Amy Propen earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota in 2007. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography and English from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on how visual, material, and written artifacts and genres function rhetorically to give voice to underrepresented groups or allow for the creation of new knowledge-making practices. Underpinning my scholarly work is the notion that rhetoric and technical communication can function in the service of advocacy. Her research interests include visual and material rhetorics, environmental rhetorics, digital and posthuman rhetorics, rhetoric and technical communication as advocacy work, writing in the disciplines, classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, animal studies, human geography, critical cartographies, and critical GIS.

Personal homepage: amypropen.com

EHC Course: Writing About Sustainability