Affiliated Faculty & Students

Community and Natural Resources Institute

CANRI Leadership

Jessica Schad
Jessica Schad

Director

Areas of Expertise:
  • Amenity Migration
  • Rural Community Natural Resource Dependency

stacia ryder
Stacia Ryder

Associate Director

Areas of Expertise:
  • Critical and Intersectional Environmental Sociology
  • Energy and Climate Justice

Sydney O'Shay
Sydney O'Shay

Communication Director

Areas of Expertise:
  • Crisis and Risk Communication
  • Water Quality
  • Air Pollution
  • Risk Perception
  • Information Seeking

betsy brunner
Elizabeth Brunner

CANRI Community Liaison

Areas of Expertise:
  • Social Media
  • Environmental Protest
  • Energy
  • Science Communication
  • Images

CANRI Steering Committee

amber caron
Amber Caron

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Storytelling
  • Literature and the Environment

catrin edgeley
Catrin Edgeley

Areas of Expertise:

  • Community Wildfire Adaptation
  • Wildfire Risk and Impacts

gustavo ovandomontejo
Gustavo Ovando-Montejo

Areas of Expertise:

  • GIS
  • Remote Sensing
  • Landscape Ecology

anwesha pan
Anwesha Pan

Areas of Expertise:

  • Biological Anthropology
  • Environmental Stressors and Female Reproductive Health

Alex Theophilus
Alex Theophilus

PhD Student in Sociology

Areas of Expertise:
  • Amenity Migration
  • Sociology of Food & Agriculture
  • Rural Sociology

kristen vinyeta
Kristen Vinyeta

Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate Change
  • Fire Politics
  • Land Management
  • Tribal Sovereignty
  • Environmental Justice
  • Multispecies justice

matthew whitaker
Matthew Whitaker

Areas of Expertise:

  • Animal Studies
  • Environmental Criticism

Ashley Young
Ashley Young

MA Student in Sociology

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Justice
  • Multispecies Justice
  • Aral Sea Desiccation

CANRI Affiliated Faculty

rebecca anderson
Rebecca Anderson

Areas of Expertise:

  • Public History

Seth Archer
Seth Archer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental History

Mark Brunson
Mark Brunson

Areas of Expertise:

  • Conservation Psychology
  • Social-ecological Systems
  • Human Responses to Environmental Change

Kimberly Clevenger
Kimberly Clevenger

Areas of Expertise:

  • Built Environment
  • Playgrounds
  • Health Geography

susan cogan
Susan Cogan

Areas of Expertise:

  • Gardens and Landscape in the Early Modern British Isles

Lawrence Culver
Lawrence Culver

Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate
  • Cities
  • Recreation
  • Tourism
  • History

courtney flint
Courtney Flint

Areas of Expertise:

  • Natural Resource Sociology
  • Community Sociology
  • Engagement

Nichelle Frank
Nichelle Frank

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental History

jacob freeman
Jacob Freeman

Areas of Expertise:

  • Collective Action
  • Population Ecology
  • Antifragility

Lisa Gabbert
Lisa Gabbert

Areas of Expertise:

  • Folklore
  • Cultural Approaches
  • Landscape
  • Sense of Place

jennifer givens
Jennifer Givens

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Sociology
  • Climate Change
  • Global and Transnational

Peter Howe
Peter Howe

Areas of Expertise:

  • Human-environment Geography
  • Climate Change Opinion
  • Environmental Risks
  • GIS

Amanda Katz
Amanda Katz

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental History
  • Infrastructure Studies
  • Recreation
  • Tourism

kristin koci
Kristin Koci

Areas of Expertise:

  • Natural Resource Sociology
  • Community Sociology
  • Rural Communities
  • Rural Mental Health

Matthew LaPlante
Matthew LaPlante

Areas of Expertise:

  • Journalism
  • Global Conflict Reporting
  • Science Communication
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Climate Variability and Change
  • Online Pedagogy
  • At-Riskt Student Support

roslynn mccann
Roslynn McCann

Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate Change Communication
  • Permaculture
  • Clean Air Marketing
  • Local Food Systems

anna miller
Anna Miller

Areas of Expertise:

  • Outdoor Recreation
  • Climate Adaptation
  • Social-Ecological Systems

Mollie Murphy
Mollie Murphy

Areas of Expertise:

  • Toxins
  • Gender
  • Science Communication

Michaelann Nelson
Michaelann Nelson

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Rhetoric
  • Southwest Literature
  • Colorado River Literature

Jennifer Peeples
Jennifer Peeples

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Communication
  • Visual Communication
  • Toxins
  • Energy
  • Rhetoric

shannon peterson
Shannon Peterson

Areas of Expertise:

  • Global Sustainability
  • Environmental Politics

Jake Powell
Jake Powell

Areas of Expertise:

  • Gateway Communities
  • Landscape Design
  • Community Planning

Claudia Radel
Claudia Radel

Areas of Expertise:

  • Natural Resources and Gender
  • Land Access and Control
  • Smallholder Farming Communities and Migration

mehmet soyer
Mehmet Soyer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Energy Development
  • Land Use Controversy
  • Environmental Inequality

Nate Straight
Nate Straight

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Literary Studies
  • Environmental Justice
  • Place-based Identities

charles waugh
Charles Waugh

Areas of Expertise:

  • Ecocriticism
  • Environmental Justice
  • Nature Writing

ashley wells
Ashley Wells

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental Rhetoric
  • Nature Writing
  • Ecofeminism
  • Animal Studies

Lisa Welsh
Lisa Welsh

Areas of Expertise:

  • Water Governance
  • Natural Resource & Environmental Policy
  • Land and Water Planning Integration

CANRI Affiliated Graduate Students

mufti ahmed
Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed

Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate Change Perceptions
  • Coping and Adaptation
  • Environmetal Dimensions of Fertility and Migration

zubair barkat
Zubair Barkat

Areas of Expertise:

  • Multispecies Justice
  • Culture of Climate Change
  • Range Management

Bailey Holdaway
Bailey Holdaway

PhD Student in Environment & Society

Areas of Expertise:
  • Water Governance
  • Natural Resource Sociology

jordan rowley
Jordan Rowley

Areas of Expertise:

  • Multispecies Justice
  • Environmental Justice
  • Natural Disaster Research

sarah woodbury
Sarah Woodbury

Areas of Expertise:

  • Animal Studies
  • Relational Values
  • Cultural Ecology
  • Environmental Writing & Communications