Faculty & Staff

Research Interests

• Biogeography
• Plant Ecology
• Environmental History
• Energy and Society
• Weed Ecology and Evolution
• Ethic Cultural Trajectories
• Agricultural Origins

Research Interests

• Plant ecology and plant-ecosystem feedbacks
• Community-level interactions in plants and impacts on ecosystems
• Plant-pollinator interactions under global change
• Forage and mixed pasture ecosystem resilience
• Global changes as drivers of ecosystem function and services

Teaching Interests

• Churchill teaches courses focused on ecosystem function and services

• as well as field methods and experimental design for students interested in ecology and global change. Courses taught include:
  • ENVI Global Change and Ecosystems (Fall)
  • ENVI Environmental Studies Capstone (Fall)
  • ENVI Biodiversity as an Ecosystem Service (Spring)
  • ENVI Field Methods in Ecosystem Ecology (Spring)

Research Interests

• Food and agriculture
• Water resources
• Indigeneity
• China
• Tibet
• US

Teaching Interests

• Food and agriculture
• Rivers and water
• Sustainability
• East and Southeast Asia
• Wine and viticulture

Research Interests

• Environmental Geochemistry
• Environmental Hydrogeology

Teaching Interests

• Environmental Hydrology
• Environmental Measurements

Research Interests

• Multi-actor and multi-level governance

• Decentralization

• Resource rights

• Collaboration

• Institutional analysis

• Decolonizing research and research methods

Research Interests

• Sustainability
• Sustainable communities and regions
• Heritage and neighborhood sustainability
• Community planning across generations
• Land use and economic development planning
• Citizen participation in local government policymaking

Research Interests

• Environmental Economics

Research Interests

• Paleoethnobotany
• Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America

Research Interests

• Evolution of Past Human Populations
• Models of Cultural Transmission
• Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
• North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific

Teaching Interests

• Archaeological Laboratory Methods
• Archaeological Remote Sensing
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Humans and the Environment
• Eastern North American Prehistory

Research Interests

• Knowledge management and inter-organizational networks
• Local government capacity to create sustainable communities
• Sustainability metrics for communities

Research Interests

• Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
• Comparative Studies of Societal Collapse and Recovery
• Frontiers and Early Complexity
• Social Dynamics of Urban Landscapes
• Collective Memory
• GIS and Spatial Analysis

Research Interests

• Ethics
• Metaethics
• Applied Ethics

Research Interests

• Geomagnetism
• Geophysics
• Data Science
• Earth Evolution

Research Interests

• Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy
• Paleoceanography
• Paleoclimatology

Teaching Interests

• Climate and Paleoclimate
• Global Change: A Geological Perspective
• Oceanography

Research Interests

• Community ecology
• Species interactions
• Environmental change

Research Interests

• Environmental anthropology
• Semiotics and language
• Critical disability studies
• Science and technology studies
• Gaming, games and play

Teaching Interests

• History of anthropology
• Graphic anthropology
• Critical disability studies
• Anthropology of religion
• Climate change

Research Interests

• Urban watersheds: transport and storage of traffic derived pollutants, pollutant cycling through constructed wetlands
• Biogeochemical cycling in meromictic lakes: whiting events, sulfur oxidizing bacteria, microbialite

Research Interests

• German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
• Literary, philosophical and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
• Modern European intellectual and cultural history
• Convergences between the natural and human sciences

Teaching Interests

• German language and literature
• European literature, culture and thought
• Cultural, literary and critical theory

Research Interests

• Behavioral Ecology
• Herpetology
• Tropical Ecology

Research Interests

• Human dimensions of agriculture and natural resources
• Agrifood policy
• Biotechnology in the food system
• Community engagement in research

Research Interests

• Water quality related to human activity and technology development
• Risk assessment of contaminants
• Water-energy nexus
• Urban water system and sustainability

Teaching Interests

• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental processes and laboratory
• Drinking water treatment
• Biological wastewater treatment
• Sustainable engineering

Research Interests

• Environmental Law