Affiliated Faculty & Students

Director (on sabbatical July 2025-June 2026)

• Amenity Migration
• Rural Community Natural Resource Dependency

Interim Co-Director (July 2025-June 2026)

• Crisis and Risk Communication
• Water Quality
• Air Pollution
• Risk Perception
• Information Seeking

Interim Co-Director (July 2025-June 2026)

• Critical and Intersectional Environmental Sociology
• Energy and Climate Justice

CANRI Community Liaison

• Social Media
• Environmental Protest
• Energy
• Science Communication
• Images

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental Storytelling
• Literature and the Environment

Areas of Expertise:

• History
• Landscape
• Africa
• U.S. West

Areas of Expertise:

• Collective Action
• Population Ecology
• Antifragility

Master's Student in English

Areas of Expertise:

• Literature and the Environment
• Place Studies

PhD Student in Environment & Society

• Water Governance
• Natural Resource Sociology

Areas of Expertise:

• GIS
• Remote Sensing
• Landscape Ecology

PhD Student in Sociology

• Amenity Migration
• Sociology of Food & Agriculture
• Rural Sociology

Areas of Expertise:

• Public History

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental History

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Built Environment
• Playgrounds
• Health Geography

Areas of Expertise:

• Gardens and Landscape in the Early Modern British Isles

Areas of Expertise:

• Climate
• Cities
• Recreation
• Tourism
• History

Areas of Expertise:

• Natural Resource Sociology
• Community Sociology
• Engagement

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental History

Areas of Expertise:

• Folklore
• Cultural Approaches
• Landscape
• Sense of Place

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental Sociology
• Climate Change
• Global and Transnational

Areas of Expertise:

• Transportation
• Community Resilience
• Natural Disasters

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental History
• Infrastructure Studies
• Recreation
• Tourism

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• U.S. Climate Change Policy

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Outdoor Recreation
• Climate Adaptation
• Social-Ecological Systems

Areas of Expertise:

• Toxins
• Gender
• Science Communication

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental Rhetoric
• Southwest Literature
• Colorado River Literature

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Global Sustainability
• Environmental Politics

Areas of Expertise:

• Gateway Communities
• Landscape Design
• Community Planning

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Energy Development
• Land Use Controversy
• Environmental Inequality

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Ecocriticism
• Environmental Justice
• Nature Writing

Areas of Expertise:

• Environmental Rhetoric
• Nature Writing
• Ecofeminism
• Animal Studies

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Animal Studies
• Environmental Criticism

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Multispecies Justice
• Culture of Climate Change
• Range Management

Areas of Expertise:

• Multispecies Justice
• Environmental Justice
• Natural Disaster Research

Areas of Expertise:

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