Current Students and Research Interests
Alisa Adelman
Alienation, spirituality, solidarity, identity
Sierra Barnes
Conceptions of "environment" and "environmentalism" across racial, cultural, and socio-economic differences; rural environmental justice; radical environmental and social justice movements.
Portia Boni
Food trade policy in Humboldt County; examining local versus imported foods in the context of climate change.
James Braggs
Low intensity urban warfare, "community" formation, race war, interlocking systems of struggle.
Stephanie Brindle
Ecotourism and community-based conservation, specifically in Central America; agriculture and food politics.
Gretchen Burak
Social responses to "natural" disaster; impacts of disaster on vulnerable groups.
Korye Clift
Autonomous food systems and informal economies, Food Security Analysis for the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District.
Alisha Clompus
Reproductive justice; women's knowledge; intersectional feminism; political ecology; environmental and social justice.
Daniel Dempsey
Place-based education, environmental education, community service-learning, curriculum development struggle.
Jessica Eden
Bio-cultural sustainability issues and conservation; ecosystem and adaptive community based strategies.
Sean Ellis
Politics of public space, homelessness, resistance, critical race theory.
Victor Espinosa
Analysis of intersection of environmental, immigration, and labor laws that affect transnational communities, specifically in California's agricultural industry.
Kathleen Fairchild
Tsunami disaster planning in Big Lagoon, Native American oral traditions.
Natalie Faris
Asset-Based Community Development, Alternative Agro-Food Systems, Agricultural Education, Food Sovereignty.
Suzanne Fortner
Environmental education curriculum and student understanding/appreciation of coastal ecosystems.
Michelle Fuller
Community-based natural resource management, Fire Safe Councils in California.
Jennifer Fusaro
Food sovereignty, the cultivation and maintenance of local food / farming knowledge; creation of food-sheds as alternative models to industrial food system; Veteran issues including trauma & transition challenges; history of horticulture therapy and U.S. Veterans; Collaborations of small – scale farmers and Veterans.
Katie Glover
Humboldt County fishermen, economic sustainability, environment and politics.
Marlene Gomez
Prison industrial complex, social justice, community formation.
Suzanne Guerra
Comparative ethnic labor histories; cultural landscapes and the intersections of technology, historic and natural resources.
Adriana Guzman
Eco-theatre, transformative and community building aspects of theatre, chronicling "Salmon Forever".
Megan Harris
Alternative food systems as a form of resistance to Neoliberal globalization within the context of the revolutionary history of Nicaragua.
Laura Hughes
Alternative agro-food networks and their potential for resistance and social change; bioregionalism; urban-rural discourses; place-based identity and place attachment.
Sarah Keeble
Asset-based community development, service learning, community building, environmental education, land use, and private property politics.
Elisabeth Keesling
Food politics, agroecology, and rural community economic development.
William Kendig
Descriptive analysis of lithic material from CA-SNI-25.
Elena L'Annunziata
Immigration laws and policy, population growth and control, environmental degradation, undocumented labor in forestry.
Lora Liegel
Water use issues and water conservation in southeast Idaho. Agriculture and development in the urban-rural interface. Forms of communication such as watershed councils, that arise from water/land issues.
Christopher Lohoeferner
Transportation equity in Humboldt County and other rural regions; government and community roles in promoting social justice.
Jennifer Mall
Community land trusts - promises and reality, feminist critiques of private property.
Ruthie Maloney
Oral history of Yurok language.
Jennifer Mayberry
Fire policy within protected wildlife corridors and urban/wildland interfaces; place-based education.
Kathleen McCovey
Environmental justice, natural resource management, rural communities "in place".
Paul Moss
Effects of capitalism and liberal democracy on society. Historical and contemporary world living standards and the notion of progress.
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.
Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Fire management, community-based natural resource management, ecological restoration.
Kim Rollins
Critical perspectives on alternative agriculture & food production
Stefan Shumaker
Community dynamics and property rights in the Upper Redwood Creek watershed: how the community lives and works within the constrained boundaries of the national forests upstream and the national parks downstream and how zoning laws affect decisions made for sustenance.
Breanne Sorrells
Holistic community health and wellness; nutrition and subsistence living; autonomy of citizenry and consumerism; interrogation of systems of power, privilege, and oppression through an intersectional anti-racist post-colonial feminist lens.
Kerry Topel
International rural water issues, community based wastewater management, sanitation/hygiene issues and equity.
Craig Turner
Environmental education, literacy, and responsible behavior.
Vanessa Vasquez
Creative, non-violent expression; clean, safe and equitable access to food and water.
Haley West
Urban agriculture, sustainable community development, social and environmental justice issues surrounding food sovereignty and land use.
Rachel West lake
Alternative healthcare, community resistance, midwifery.
Grace Wilson
Effectiveness of agricultural/open space conservation easements on private lands in California/GIS.
Dimitra Zalarvis-Chase
Resource elements of Wiyot settlements around Humboldt Bay, GIS analysis.