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

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.