Faculty
Students will have the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary group of faculty, distinguished by their accessibility and enthusiasm. These professors also serve on the program's Advisory Committee.
Mark Baker, Program Coordinator
(Ph.D. 1994, Wildland Resource Science, UC Berkeley) teaches courses in the Department of Government and Politics and the Geography Department. He is interested in enduring and emerging community-based natural resource management regimes, with a particular focus on equity, collective action, and political authority. He is the author of The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya (University of Washington Press, 2005) and the co-author of Community Forestry in the United States: Learning from the Past, Crafting the Future (Island Press, 2003).
j.mark.baker@humboldt.edu
Joy Adams
(Ph.D. University of Texas 2006) teaches in the Geography department. Her specialty areas are American ethnic geography, cultural geography/landscape, ethnic identity, heritage tourism, and North America (US and Canada).
joy@humboldt.edu
Michael Bruner
(Ph.D. 1989, Communication, University of Pittsburgh) has publications in Landmark Essays in Environmental Ethics, Argument and Advocacy, and Enviropop: Essays on Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture.
msb25@humboldt.edu
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Manuel Callahan
(Ph.D. 2003, History, University of Texas at Austin) teaches Ethnic, Chicano and Subaltern Studies. He also devotes much of his research efforts towards making available popular education models and critical theory within temporary autonomous zones of knowledge production.
mc92@humboldt.edu
Yvonne Everett
(Ph.D. 1993, Wildland Resource Science-Landscape Ecology, UC-Berkeley) teaches courses in natural resources policy and regulation, planning, and ecosystem analysis. Her research interests are in applied forest and landscape ecology, management of non-timber forest products, community forestry, land use planning and management, and participatory research and planning processes.
ye1@humboldt.edu
Steven C. Hackett
(Ph.D. 1989, Economics, Texas A&M) specializes in applied microeconomics, particularly environmental and natural resources economics and policy. He has over 35 publications including his book Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society, third edition, 2006. His policy research on California's Dungeness crab fishery (in collaboration with colleagues at HSU and at UC-Davis) received the 2005 gold award for best refereed journal article by the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals. In recognition of his research into regional economic issues, and what HSU President Rollin Richmond described as "the clarity and significance his work brings to global questions of environmental economics," Hackett was selected as Humboldt State University's Scholar of the Year for 2005.
sh2@humboldt.edu
Richard Hansis
(Ph.D. 1976, Geography, Penn State), is coordinator of HSU's Environmental Science Program. He has been studying human-environmental interactions ever since he did master's thesis research in Ecuador. He did doctoral research in Argentina and subsequent studies of non-timber forest products picking in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. He has interests in public participation in land management decisions.
rah14@humboldt.edu
Arne Jacobson
(Ph.D. 2004, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley) specializes in international development, renewable energy, and the equity dimensions of energy access in a carbon limited world. His work is interdisciplinary, combining a social geography based approach to development studies with expertise in energy policy and renewable energy engineering. His current research is based in Kenya.
arne@humboldt.edu
Corey Lewis
(Ph.D. English, 2003, Literature and Environment Program, University of Nevada Reno) author of “Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest” Corey Lewis specializes in the interdisciplinary and field-based study of regional works of environmental literature. He currently teaches both environmental literature, nature writing and research writing in the English department and works on issues of re-localization and cultural change.
cll35@humboldt.edu
Judith Little
(Ph.D. 1985, Sociology, Washington) does applied sociological research for local communities and groups involved in economic and community development that protects and enhances the environment.
jkl1@humboldt.edu
John M. Meyer
(Ph.D. 1997, Political Science, Wisconsin-Madison) teaches environmental politics and political theory. His research focuses on the relationship of environmentalist concerns to conceptions of politics, property, and rights. He is the author of the book Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought (MIT Press, 2001) and articles in both academic journals and political magazines.
john.meyer@humboldt.edu
Marlon Sherman
(Oglala Lakota, J.D. 1997, University of Colorado School of Law) teaches in the Native American Studies Department, specializing in indigenous and tribal law, justice, peacemaking, governance, environment, resource use, culture, history and philosophy. His poems were awarded the 2003 First Book Award for Poetry by the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
ms31@humboldt.edu
Llyn Smith
(Ph.D. 1997, Anthropology, University College London) is a cultural anthropologist. Her areas of field research are her native Australia and Sri Lanka, and her teaching specialties include Women and Development, Post-Colonial Studies, and Anthropology of Religion.
llyn@humboldt.edu
Sheila L. Steinberg
(Ph.D. 1996, Rural Sociology, Penn State) has interests in environmental sociology, environmental justice, sociospatial research methods, poverty, rural health, social ecology, environmental protest movements, and community development. She has conducted research in Northern California, Nepal, Guatemala, Pennsylvania, Alaska, and the American Southwest. She is co-author of the book GIS For the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place. Sage Publications, 2006. Her current research examines the relationship between social and environmental change in rural communities. She is Associate Director of the California Center for Rural Policy located at Humboldt State University.
ss51@humboldt.edu
Steven J. Steinberg
(Ph.D. 1998, Forestry, University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor in HSU’s Natural Resource Planning Program with emphasis in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing. He has spent over a decade in applied research and teaching GIS and remote sensing. Dr. Steinberg is Director of the HSU Institute for Spatial Analysis and Director of the California Center for Rural Policy, Environment Branch. In 2004, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and received an appointment as Distinguished Chair in Remote Sensing at the Centre for Scientific Computing, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver British Columbia. In 2006 he co-authored “GIS for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place” and is currently co-authoring a second book to be released in 2008. Dr. Steinberg has researched and presented extensively on the application of Spatial Analysis Technologies for modeling and visualization in both human and natural environments.
gis@humboldt.edu
Jessica LeAnn Urban
(Ph.D. 2004, Political Science, Northern Arizona University) teaches in the Women’s Studies Program and for the Multicultural Queer Studies Minor. Her research and other interests vary widely, but are grounded in an interrogation of interlocking systems of power, privilege and oppression as well as a commitment to exploring and growing coalitional strategies for environmental, reproductive, and social justice. Some of her writings include Nation, Immigration and Environmental Security (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan); “Interrogating Privilege/Challenging the ‘Greening of Hate’” (forthcoming) International Feminist Journal of Politics; “Bordering on the Absurd: National, Civilizational and Environmental Security Discourses on Immigration,” in the forthcoming edited book by Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen Lugo-Lugo entitled A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror”, Sexuality and Race, and “Constructing Blame: ‘Overpopulation,’ Environmental Security, and International Relations,” WID Publication Series #273, Michigan State University, 2001.
Betsy Watson
(Ph.D. 1986, Sociology, Rutgers) is Director of the Institute for Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Center for Resolution of Environmental Disputes at HSU and has mediated timber harvest plans, land use conflicts, and water disputes.
ew1@humboldt.edu
Noah Zerbe
(Ph.D. 2003, Political Science, York University, Toronto) teaches international and comparative environmental policy and food politics. His research focuses on the social, political and environmental consequences of agricultural biotechnology. He is the author of Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives, African Alternatives (Africa World Press, 2004), and numerous articles on environmental governance.
noah.zerbe@humboldt.edu