Faculty Advisory Board

Eric Austin

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

Ed Dratz

Professor, Chemistry and BioChemistry

Interests: Metabolism, enhanced nutrition and health, proteomics

Paul Gannon

 Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Interests: Sustainability, Energy, Materials

Timothy LeCain

Professor, History & Philosophy 

Interests:  Environmental History, History of Technology, Animal History, Neo-Materialism

Rob Maher

Professor, Electical & Computer Engineering

Interests: Digital audio signal processing, audio forensic analysis, analysis and synthesis of music, and acoustics, engineering ethics & professional responsibilities

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

Interests:  Agroecology, invasive plant ecology, ecological modeling

Jamie McEvoy

Associate 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

Professor, Political Science

Interests: Public policy, environmental policy and politics, narrative policy frameworks, social ecological systems

 Justin Shanks

Instructor, Library

Interests: Mindfulness and Technology,History of Science and Technology,Information and Society, Food and Society,
Research Translation and Public Engagement

Bonnie Sheehey

Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy

Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race

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. 

Kristin Ruppel

Associate Professor, Native American Studies and Director of the Native Land Project

Interests: Federal Indian law and policy,federal-Indian trust reform, American Indian self-determination, and research methodologies for working in and with Native communities, especially with regard to ecologies of place, Native food systems, local economic development, and the praxis of ethical, equitable research partnerships.

Scott Young

Associate Professor, User Experience and Assessment Librarian

Interests: Service and participatory design, accessibility, ethics and social justice in library sciences.