Department Directory

Faculty

Joel Correia

Assistant Professor

Political ecologies of conservation & development, climate change adaptation and mitigation, Indigenous rights, social dimensions of "natural" disasters, 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

Environmental governance, fisheries policy and management, gendered livelihoods, recreational fishing, decolonial feminist political ecology

Paul Layden

Master Instructor | Undergraduate Coordinator | Internship Coordinator

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

Sara LoTemplio

Assistant Professor

Rebecca Niemiec

Associate Professor

Jon Salerno

Assistant Professor

Human adaptation to environmental change

Jennifer Solomon

Associate Professor

Sunshine Swetnam

Assistant Professor

Tara Teel

Interim Department Head & Professor

Conservation social sciences, social psychology applications in conservation, human dimensions of wildlife, human-wildlife interactions, wildlife values

Sarah Walker

Assistant Professor

Human-Environment Interactions

Lina Xiong

Associate Professor

Internal branding, service management, and employee well-being in tourism.

Wen Zhang

Assistant Professor

Richard Knight

Professor Emeritus