Faculty Advisory Board

Eric Austin
Associate Professor, Political Science
Interests: Public administration, leadership ethics, public safety, environmental policy

Brooke Bocast
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
Interests: Africa, global health, medical anthropology, gender and sexuality
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Ed Dratz
Professor, Chemistry and BioChemistry
Interests: Metabolism, enhanced nutrition and health, proteomics

Paul Gannon
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Interests: Sustainability, Energy, Materials

Timothy LeCain
Professor of History
Interests: Environmental History, History of Technology, Animal History, Neo-Materialism

Sara Mannheimer
Assistant Professor and Data Librarian, Library
Interests: Digital preservation, open data, big data ethics, research data management

Bruce Maxwell
Professor, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Co-Director - MSU, Institute on Ecosystems
Interests: Agroecology, invasive plant ecology, ecological modeling

Jamie McEvoy
Assistant Professor, Geography, Department of Earth Sciences
Interests: Political ecology, science and technology studies, political ecology of water management, climate change vulnerability and adaptation,policy and governance at the climate-water-energy nexus

Gretchen Minton
Professor, English
Interests: Shakespeare and early modern drama, relationships between science, environment and society in literature

Liz Shanahan
Associate Professor, Political Science
Interests: Public policy, environmental policy and politics, narrative policy frameworks, social ecological systems

Justin Shanks
Postdoctoral Researcher, Library
Interests: Contemplative Technopedagogy, Mindfulness and Technology,History of Science and Technology,Information and Society, Food and Society,
Research Translation and Public Engagement

John Sheppard
Professor, Computer Science
Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, reasoning under uncertainty, health management, data mining, algorithms

Cindy Stillwell
Professor, Film and Photography
Interests: Filmmaking focused on human beings in relationship with nature.

Scott Young
Assistant Professor, User Experience and Assessment Librarian
Interests: Service and participatory design, accessibility, ethics and social justice in library sciences.