Environmental Studies Program Faculty
Faculty are drawn from over 20 participating departments at the University of Utah.
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| Director of Environmental Studies |
| Dan McCool, Professor of Political Science |
| 301 Orson Spencer Hall |
| 801-585-6455 |
fax: 801-585-6492
dan.mccool@poli-sci.utah.edu
Red Rock Institute
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| Anthropology |
| JF O'Connell |
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| Research Interests: |
Ecology of prehistoric and modern hunter-gatherers |
| Email: |
oconnell@anthro.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-3933 |
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| Elizabeth Cashdan |
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| Courses: |
Anthropology 4186/6186 Human Ecology |
| Research Interests: |
Human behavioral ecology, spatial organization, evolutionary psychology |
| Email: |
cashdan@anthro.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-4672 |
| Biology |
| Phyllis Coley |
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| Courses: |
BIOL 3410 and 5420 |
| Research Interests: |
Herbivory and plant defenses in tropical forests. Bioprospecting and conservation of tropical rainforests. The role of the third trophic level in regulating tropical herbivores. |
| Email: |
coley@biology.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7088 |
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| Jim Ehleringer |
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| Courses: |
Biology 1020 Ecology and Global Change; Biology 5460 Plant Ecology; Biology 7473 Stable Isotope Ecology |
| Email: |
ehleringer@biology.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7623 |
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| Fred Montague |
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| Courses: |
BIOL 1400 Introduction to Environmental Science; BIOL 2400 Wildlife Ecology; BIOL 3460 Global Environmental Issues; BIOL 3960 Ecological Principle of Gardening; BIOL 3960 Literature of Ecology |
| Email: |
montague@bioscience.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-6244 |
| Communication |
| Connie Bullis |
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| Courses: |
Occasionally, Environmental Communication; Occasionally, Organizational Communication: The Sustainability Challenge |
| Research Interests: |
How communication influences decision making in environmental issues; corporate sustainability; Ecofeminism |
| Email: |
bullis@admin.comm.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-6664 |
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| Julia Corbett |
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| Courses: |
COMM 5360 Environmental Communication; often teach COMM 5580 and COMM 5710 as service learning with environmental clients. |
| Research Interests: |
Media coverage of environment, science, and health; social change and conflict; environment and pop culture |
| Email: |
corbett.julia@gmail.com |
| Phone: |
801-581-4557 |
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| Economics |
| Gabriel Lozada |
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| Courses: |
ECON 3250 Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, ECON 5250 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and ECON 7250 Advanced Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
| Research Interests: |
Economics of extractive industries; fisheries; entropy & ecological economics. |
| Email: |
lozada (at) economics (dot) utah (dot) edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7650 |
| English |
| Stephen Tatum |
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| Courses: |
Environmental Writing; Studies in Non-Fiction: Toxic Landscapes |
| Research Interests: |
American West writing, including environmental writing about the intermountain West/Colorado Plateau; Western America art; animals and American literature |
| Email: |
tatum@english.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-4035 |
| Family & Consumer Studies |
| Barbara Brown |
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| Courses: |
FCS 3620/Psych3420 Environment and Behavior
FCS 3420 Housing Policy and Issues (deals with density and sprawl) |
| Research: |
Transit use, neighborhood design, Transit Oriented design, New Urbanism, and building in natural physical activity opportunities. |
| Email: |
barbara.brown@fcs.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7111 |
| Geography |
| George F. Hepner |
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| Courses: |
GEOGR 3350 Resource Conservation and Environmental Management |
| Research Interests: |
US-Mexico Border Environmental Issues; Use of geographic information systems (GIS) for environmental management |
| Email: |
george.hepner@geog.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-6021 |
| Geology and Energy |
| Jack Hamilton |
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| Courses: |
Energy Resources in a Sustainable World: Met E 1001; EnvSt 1001; Geog 1001; Geol 1001 |
| Research Interests: |
Energy Policy; Carbon Neutral Power Generation; Methane from Coal |
| Email: |
jack.hamilton@utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-3209 |
| Gerontology/Nursing |
| Scott D. Wright |
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| Research Interests: |
Older Adults' Attitudes, Concerns and Support for Environmental Issues in the West; Environmental Impact of Aging Baby Boomers; Environmental Hazards and Aging; Demographic trends in the West |
| Email: |
scott.wright@nurs.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-585-9542 |
| Parks Recreation & Tourism |
| Adrienne Cachelin, Adjunct Faculty |
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| Courses: |
PRT/T&L 5175: Natural Science Instruction in the Outdoors |
| Research Interests: |
Environmental education, sense of place, and language and the environment. |
| Email: |
adrienne.cachelin@health.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-859-9060 |
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| John Cederquist, MS |
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| Coordinator, Instructor: |
Natural Resources Learning Program |
| Email: |
john.cederquist@health.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-585-3204 |
| Philosophy |
| Leslie Francis |
Honors Advisor for Environmental Studies
Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law |
| Courses: |
PHIL 3530 Environmental Ethics; PHIL 3250 Bioethics |
| Research Interests: |
Environmental human rights, ethics and infectious disease, bioethics, distributive justice, ethics and disability |
| Email: |
francisl@law.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-3489 |
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| Anya Plutynski |
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| Courses: |
PHIL 3530 Environmental Ethics; PHIL 5350 Philosophy of Science with a focus on Ecology(varying by semester) |
| Research Interests: |
History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology |
| Email: |
plutynski@philosophy.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7424 |
| Political Science |
| Dan McCool |
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| Courses: |
POL S 5322 Environmental Policy |
| Research Interests: |
Water policy, public lands policy, and America Indian policy. |
| Email: |
dan.mccool@poli-sci.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-7611 |
| Psychology |
| Carol M. Werner |
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| Courses: |
PSYCH 3420/FCS 3620 and PSYCH 5400/6400/FCS 5620 Introductory and Advanced Environment and Behavior |
| Research Interests: |
Environmental Behavior Change (recycling, reducing use of home and yard chemicals, transit use) |
| Email: |
carol.werner@psych.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-8938 |
| Social Work |
| David Derezotes, LCSW, PhD |
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| Courses: |
Spirituality, love, & community (undergraduate honors class that links biopsychosocial-spiritual well being with environmental health). I also add deep-ecology content to all my graduate level social work classes |
| Research Interests: |
My last book creates models of practice for therapists and activists interested in the biopsychosocial-spiritual-environmental connection |
| Email: |
dderezotes@socwk.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-585-3546 |
| Sociology |
| Jeffrey Kentor |
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| Courses: |
SOC 3436 Global Social Structure |
| Research Interests: |
Globalization and the environment |
| Email: |
jeffrey.kentor@soc.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-4601 |
| Urban Planning |
| Keith Bartholomew |
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| Courses: |
URBPL 5330: Urban Growth Management; URBPL 5720 Community Transport;
URBPL 5260: Planning Law |
| Research Interests: |
The role of land use policy in transportation planning;The policy influences that affect transportation behavior; How small-scale urban design affects transportation choices |
| Email: |
bartholomew@arch.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-585-0437 |
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| Caitlin Cahill |
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| Courses: |
URBPL 5962 Race, Ethnicity and Community Development |
| Research Interests: |
Environmental psychology, urban nature, urban studies, global restructuring, young people's well -being, racial equity, social justice and change, citizen participation in community change, participatory research methods.
Urban environmental research: citizen participation in street trees. |
| Email: |
cahill@arch.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-4042 |
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| Philip C. Emmi |
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| Courses: |
URBPL 5390 Community, Economy and Sustainability; URBPL 5270 Metropolitan Regional Planning |
| Research Interests: |
Urban planning, land use, transportation and urban ecology |
| Email: |
emmi@arch.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-4255 |
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| Craig Forster |
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| Research Interests: |
System Science with emphasis on human-ecosystem interactions in urban ecosystems; Minimizing greenhouse gas intensity in the southwest with the Southwest Carbon Partnership; Assessment of Human/Environmental Systems in the USA - Mexico Border Region with the Border + 20 Project |
| Email: |
forster@arch.utah.edu |
| Phone: |
801-581-3864 |
