Director
Jacob Darwin Hamblin is the Director of Environmental Arts and Humanities at OSU. A historian by training, his work explores the nexus of history, science, and environmental issues. He is interested in environmental justice and global politics, and has written about about nuclear issues (including radiation exposure), global environmental change, wastes and toxins in the natural environment, and the development of the earth and marine sciences. His books include The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (2021), Arming Mother Nature: the Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (2013), Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (2008), and Oceanographers and the Cold War (2005).
Participating Faculty
Our participating faculty members are drawn from around the university. Take their courses when you can. The below list is a selection of faculty members who have stated a willingness to serve on our graduate student committees. They come from a variety disciplines in the humanities, arts, sciences, and engineering. As you look for faculty members that match your interests, please note that many, but not all, are willing to serve as a major professor. For that role, you should try to identify faculty members who have expertise in the humanities and arts. For more information about them, please familiarize yourself with their faculty websites hosted by their home departments.
| Name | Academic Home | Research or Teaching Interests | Possible Major Professor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnd, Natchee | School of Language, Culture, and Society | environmental racism; artistic resistance and self-determination as environmental justice; issues of race, culture, space, and indigeneity. | Yes |
| Barstow, Geoffrey | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | animal ethics, Buddhism, and Tibetan religion, history, and culture | Yes |
| Bernardin, Susan | School of Language, Culture, and Society | Indigenous literary and visual studies, gender and the US West | Yes |
| Bethel, Jeff | College of Health | health impacts of infectious disease outbreaks and natural hazards, particularly among vulnerable populations | No |
| Betjemann, Peter | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | nineteenth-century American literature; material culture; painting and literature | Yes |
| Betts, Matthew G. | Forestry | landscape composition, animal behaviors, species distributions, and ecosystem function. | No |
| Biedenweg, Kelly |
Fisheries and Wildlife |
conservation psychology and human wellbeing, applied research on human dimensions of natural resource management, program evaluation and facilitation, environmental education and social learning |
Yes |
| Bosworth, Kelly | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | music/sound/noise, migration, disaster, race, and place | Yes |
| Bradshaw, Julia | School of Arts and Communication | photography | Yes |
| Carr, Emily | Cascades Campus | ecocriticism, feminism, contemporary poetry and poetics | Yes |
| Forestry |
social science, policy, natural resources, sustainable recreation and tourism, human dimensions, outdoor recreation |
Yes | |
| Fearnside, Jeff | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | literature and writing about place, culture, and the natural environment | Yes |
| Field, Katharine G. | Microbiology | water quality, dairy production, microbial monitoring;interdisciplinary education and STEM education for underrepresented groups. | No |
| Fifita, Patricia | Ethnic Studies | Critical Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Anthropology in/of the Pacific Islands/Oceania; Medical and Environmental Anthropology; Indigenous theory and methodologies; Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK); Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR); Critical theory applied to indigenous health and biomedicine, Health disparities, Gender studies, Political economy, Climate change and Food security, and Natural resource management in the Pacific Islands. | Yes |
| Figueroa, Robert | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | environmental justice, environmental philosophy, climate refugees and resettlement, critical disability studies, environmental identity and heritage, Latin@s and indigenous perspectives | Yes |
| Env Science | systems ecology, systems modeling and analysis, embodied energy (emergy) analysis, watershed assessment, sustainable design for the environment, and sustainable business | No | |
| Foreman, Nicholas | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | Food History, Early America, Native American History, and the history of American Music | Yes |
| Gerkey, Drew | School of Language, Culture, and Society | ecological anthropology, subsistence activities, market expansion, natural resource use, social networks, institutions, social movements, and sustainability | Yes |
| Goodnow, Trischa | School of Arts and Communication | visual rhetoric; intersection between rhetoric and science | Yes |
| Gosnell, Hannah | CEOAS | rural sustainability, environmental governance, collaborative conservation, social-ecological systems, resilience, adaptation, transformation, grazing systems, forest systems, public lands, emotional geographies | Yes |
| Gottlieb, Evan | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | literary and critical theory (including ecotheory, New Materialism, and Speculative Realism) | Yes |
| Hales, Burke | CEOAS | carbon cycles at ocean boundaries; acidification | Yes |
| Hamblin, Jacob Darwin | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | history of science; environmental history; ocean and atmospheric sciences; nuclear issues; science and politics | Yes |
| Holmberg, Karen | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | 20th Century American poetry, 19th Century British poetry and prose, science and poetry, Anglo-Russian studies, letterpress printing and visual poetics, the lyric essay, the novel in verse | No |
| Hommel, Demian | CEOAS | Human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts; political ecology; risk; people-reef interactions; climate justice; pedagogy and technology | No |
| Jenkins, Stephanie | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | ethics; critical animal studies | Yes |
| Jensen, Tim | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | rhetoric and environment | Yes |
| Jones, Julia | CEOAS | land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality | No |
| Kile, Molly | PHHS | environmental epidemiology; human exposure to environmental pollutants; community-based environmental health outreach in Native American Tribes | No |
| Koehlinger, Amy | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | North American religious history, American Catholic culture, psychedelic spirituality, sport and religious embodiment, religious history of the American West | Yes |
| Lambrinos, John | Ag Sci | habitat restoration; beneficial insects; ecosystem services | No |
| Law, Beverly | Forestry | climate change, extreme events and human actions on forests, woodlands and shrublands | No |
| Ma, Yanni | School of Communication | science, environmental, and risk communication | Yes |
| Maes, Kenneth | School of Language, Culture, and Society | Global Health and Development, Primary Health Care, Community Health Workers, Health Systems Strengthening, Food Insecurity, Water Insecurity, Mental Health, Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, Religion, Morality, and Ritual | Yes |
| Maldonado, Marta | School of Language, Culture, and Society | Cultural and political geographies, place and belonging, social and political dimensions of natural resource use and management | Yes |
| Malewitz, Raymond | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | environmental literature, animal studies, eco-criticism, new materialisms, literature and science | Yes |
| Marcus, Craig | Ag Sci | toxicology, environmental risk analysis, uncertainty decision-making | No |
| Munanura, Ian | Forestry | parks, recreation, and tourism | Yes |
| Needham, Mark | Forestry | human dimensions of natural resources, recreation, tourism, and wildlife; social psychology of natural resource issues; marine and terrestrial parks and protected areas; ski area management; norms and standards of quality; carrying capacity and crowding; specialization; conflict; risk; social trust; survey and quantitative methods. | No |
| Nelson, Michael P. | Forestry | philosophy and environmental ethics | Yes |
| Passarello, Elena | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | literary nonfiction, performance, pop culture, visual art, and the natural world | Yes |
| Peltomäki, Kirsi | School of Arts and Communication | history of art; experiential and participatory art | Yes |
| Pflugfelder, Ehren | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | rhetoric, technical communication, mobility, writing studies, new media | Yes |
| Price, Lisa | School of Language, Culture, and Society | food systems, farming, food security, gender, agro-biodiversity, ethnobiology | No |
| Reason, Dana | School of Arts and Communication | Sound Studies, Acoustic Music Ecology, Sonification and Eco-Music/Sound | |
| Reeves, Joshua | School of Arts and Communication | media theory, rhetoric, technology, biopolitics | Yes |
| Reynolds, Lorien | Ag Sci | soils in the regulation of global climate, science literacy | No |
| Richards, Linda | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | history of science, environmental justice, peace studies | Yes |
| Sarbacker, Stuart | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | Comparative Religion and Indian Philosophy, green yoga | Yes |
| Sanchez, Dana | Fisheries and Wildlife | Mammalian space use and habitat selection. Human-wildlife issues | No |
| Schmittner, Andreas | CEOAS | climate science, impacts, paleoclimate, ocean physical and biogeochemical changes, communication of climate science | Yes |
| Shay, Al | Ag Sci | Horticulture, landscape design, landscape maintenance, sustainable landscape construction | No |
| Shinderman, Matt | Cascades | endangered species ecology; environmental politics and policy; sustainability performance assessment; ecological assessment in urban landscapes; ecological restoration and species adaptation to climate change. | No |
| Shirazi, Mehra | Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | postcolonial feminist scholarship that focuses on health in the global context of race, gender, immigration, and environment | Yes |
| Sinclair, Rebekah | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | philosophy of science, biopolitics, animal rights, indigenous knowledge | Yes |
| Skarbakka, Kerry | School of Arts and Communication | photography | Yes |
| School of Public Policy | marine studies (integrated coastal management, resource use and property regimes, international marine policy, and marine protected areas), interdisciplinary research, human geography and development in Latin America (international lifestyle migration and the political ecology of socio-environmental change) | No | |
| Still, Chris | Forestry | climate change; forest ecology; fog; cloud forests; forest canopy; C4 grasses; biogeography; ecophysiology; stable isotopes; terrestrial biosphere; carbon cycle | Yes |
| Strauss, Steven | Forestry | genomic analysis and genetic engineering of tree crops; perceptions of GMOs and chemicals in agriculture and food. | Yes |
| Thompson, Allen | School of History, Philosophy, and Religion | environmental ethics, novel ecosystems, climate change mitigation and adaptation, conservation, environmental virtue ethics, stewardship, future generations, geoengineering, ecosystem management | Yes |
| Tilt, Bryan | School of Language, Culture, and Society | environmental anthropology, sustainable development, pollution, water resources, community participation, natural resources, fisheries management | Yes |
| Tilt, Jenna | CEOAS | Regional and rural land use planning and land use change; green infrastructure and low-impact development practices, risk perception, land use planning, and natural hazards management; urban ecology; water resource, and natural resource decision making | No |
| Valls, Andrew | School of Public Policy | environmental justice; environmental racism; environmental political theory; environmental ethics; animals | Yes |
| Ward, Megan | School of Writing, Literature, and Film | Victorian literature and culture; history of science and technology; colonialism and environment; imperial exploration; digital humanities; digital archives | Yes |
| Yates-Doerr, Emily | School of Language, Culture, and Society | health, food justice, and social inequality | Yes |
| Zapata, Joel | history of the greater U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the U.S. West, the U.S. South, and the Southern Great Plains; women’s labor and organizing on the U.S.-Mexico border, Latinxs in Oregon, African American and Mexican American social justice movements and their coalescing, historical memory, cultural ecology, and digital history | ||
| Zhang, Shaozeng | School of Language, Culture, and Society | Science and Technology Studies (STS), environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, applied anthropology | Yes |