Department Directory

Faculty

Tony Cheng

Interim Department Head, Dept. of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

Collaborative planning, monitoring, and adaptive management for forest restoration and wildfire risk management; forest governance, policy, and administration

Joel Correia

Assistant Professor

Climate & environmental justice, political ecologies of conservation & development, Indigenous rights, social dimensions of disaster, Latin America

Stuart Cottrell

Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration

His research focus includes sustainable tourism development - linking tourism, nature conservation and protected areas; collaborative conservation and protected area management; and perceptions of landscape disturbance - implications for human dimensions of natural resources, recreation and tourism.

Jamie Dahl

Assistant Professor

Tian Guo

Assistant Professor

Behavior change, human processes of the coupled human-nature systems

Anna Lavoie

Assistant Professor

Gendered livelihoods, resource stewardship, and feminist political ecology

Paul Layden

Master Instructor | Undergraduate Coordinator | Internship Coordinator | Conference Coordinator

Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.

Sara LoTemplio

Assistant Professor

Rebecca Niemiec

Assistant Professor

Jon Salerno

Assistant Professor

Human adaptation to environmental change

Jennifer Solomon

Associate Professor

Sunshine Swetnam

Assistant Professor

Tara Teel

Professor / Graduate Coordinator

Sarah Walker

Assistant Professor

Human-Environment Interactions

Lina Xiong

Associate Professor

Dr. Bear’s research areas include internal branding, service management and marketing, as well as destination brand marketing.

Wen Zhang

Assistant Professor

Richard Knight

Professor Emeritus