Faculty Expertise

20th-21st century environmental history, development studies, environmental history, environmental movements and social movement theory, environmental politics, Germany, international development theory and processes, Latin America, NGO studies, political geography

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

environmental literature and ecocriticism, film analysis and film history, genre criticism and environmental, representations of water, Russian literature and cultural history, significance of water in cultural histories, women’s film and treatments of the natural world with a primary focus on Russia, women’s writing and ecocritical issues

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

climate change and climate change policy, economic incentives, environmental and natural resource economics, fisheries, Himalayan and Andean glaciers, Maine, southwestern United States, valuation of the environment, water resources

atmospheric deposition, biogeochemsitry, culture of and participation in science, ecosystem ecology, environmental science, limnology, paleorecords of environmental change, soils

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

Brazil, Comparative Politics, Constructivist Methods, Ethnography, Feminist Methodologies, Fieldwork, Gender Politics, Latin America, LGBT Politics, Participatory Democracy, Policy Process, Political Institutions, Portuguese, Public Policy, Qualitative Methods, Queer and Trans Studies, Sexuality Politics, Social Movements, Transgender Politics