Current Students and Research Interests
Sierra Barnes
Conceptions of "environment" and "environmentalism" across racial, cultural, and socio-economic differences; rural environmental justice; radical environmental and social justice movements.
James Braggs
Low intensity urban warfare, "community" formation, race war, interlocking systems of struggle.
Gretchen Burak
Social responses to "natural" disaster; impacts of disaster on vulnerable groups.
Sean Ellis
Politics of public space, homelessness, resistance, critical race theory.
Kathleen Fairchild
Tsunami disaster planning in Big Lagoon, Native American oral traditions.
Michelle Fuller
Community-based natural resource management, Fire Safe Councils in California.
Marlene Gomez
Prison industrial complex, social justice, community formation.
Adriana Guzman
Eco-theatre, transformative and community building aspects of theatre, chronicling "Salmon Forever".
Calder Johnson
Theatre as a space both of resistance and hegemonic cultural domination.
Brennan Lagasse
Environmental justice, National Environmental Policy Act, Native American Sacred Sites, U.S. Forest Service.
David Lawlor
Deep ecology, transpersonal ecology, shamanic-style entheogen use, societal transformation.
Jennifer Mall
Community land trusts - promises and reality, feminist critiques of private property.
Kathleen McCovey
Environmental justice, natural resource management, rural communities "in place".
Scott Menzies
Sociology of community design, social role of small businesses in communities.
Angela Pannacione
Community-based conflict resolution, critical assessment of National Environmental Policy Act.
Kristin Pitsenbarger
National park - local population interactions on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, community and cultural identity.
Kim Rollins
Critical perspectives on alternative agriculture & food production
Jennifer Saklar
Environmental justice, Central Valley (CA) air pollution, community responses.
Rachel Westlake
Alternative healthcare, community resistance, midwifery.
Grace Wilson
Effectiveness of agricultural/open space conservation easements on private lands in California/GIS.