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Elizabeth Stephens

Professor

estephe@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Art, Film, Environmental Justice, Social Justice


Biography, Education and Training

  Beth Stephens is an artist, and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.    Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for her current film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire, an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2022), a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022) and the publication of Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2021 the ... more »

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Ravi Rajan

Professor

srrajan@ucsc.edu

8314594158


Areas of expertise: Environmental Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Environmental History, World History, South Asian Studies, History of Science, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

Ravi Rajan is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served since his appointment in 1997.   He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Delhi, and his doctorate at the Univ... more »

Flora Lu

Flora Lu

Professor, Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies Department

Areas of expertise: Environmental Studies, Community-based Research, Conservation, Diversity, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property, Latin American and Latino Studies, Social Justice, Sustainability


Biography, Education and Training

Flora received her A.B. in Human Biology with honors from Stanford University in 1993 and Ph.D. in Ecology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, UNC Royster Society Fellow, Lang Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University, and Stanford Distinguished Alumni Scholar, she studies the interrelationships between human societies and the natural environment with a geographic emphasis in the Neotropics. More recently, she is interested in conducting research more l... more »

Jeffrey Bury

Jeffrey Bury

Department Chair and Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR)

Environmental Studies Department

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Jeffrey Bury

Professor

jbury@ucsc.edu

831-459-3685


Areas of expertise: Climate Change, Political Economy of Development, Geographic Information Systems, Glaciers, Conservation, Environmental Justice, Sustainability


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder M.A., The American University Honors B.A., University of Utah

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Andrew Szasz

Professor Emeritus

szasz@ucsc.edu

831-332-6521


Areas of expertise: Environmental Studies, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Sociology


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Harvard University, 1969 M.A., University of Chicago, 1971 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982

Chris Benner

Chris Benner

Professor, Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, Director, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, Director, Institute for Social Transformation

Environmental Studies Department, Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Urban studies, Labor and Social Movements, Sociology, Environmental Justice, Globalization, Community-based Research, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Political Economy of Development, Activism


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation.  His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets... more »


Areas of expertise: Agroecology and Agriculture, Sociology of Development, Environmental Justice


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison B.S., Development Sociology/Natural Resource Management, Cornell University


Areas of expertise: Activism, Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, American Studies, Sustainability, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley B.A., Politics with Honors, Oberlin College

Sikina Jinnah

Sikina Jinnah

Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Graduate Faculty of Politics

Environmental Studies Department

Areas of expertise: Climate Change, International and Global Affairs, Environmental Justice, Endangered Species


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on global environmental governance in the areas of climate change, climate engineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. She is the author or editor of 6 books and over 50 articles and chapters. Her first book Post-treaty Politics (MIT Press) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret S... more »

Linda MacDonald Glenn

Linda MacDonald Glenn

Founding Director, Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies (CAVEAT), Continuing Lecturer

Crown College

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Linda MacDonald Glenn

lmglenn@ucsc.edu

802-999-8678


Areas of expertise: Ethics, Law and Policy, Science and Technology, Health and Wellness, Philosophy of Mind, Animal-Human Relationships, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, is an ethicist, futurist, educator and attorney-at-law with over 30 years of experience in private and public sectors across multiple industries including exponential technology, healthcare, government, education, business ethics and futures forecasting. She is an internationally renowned thought leader, keynote speaker, writer, seminar developer/presenter, with a large body of published work in peer reviewed journals. She is frequently quoted in the media fo... more »


Areas of expertise: Activism, African Diaspora, Agroecology and Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Studies, Colonialism, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples, International Development, Latin American and Latino Studies, Marxism, Social Justice, Sustainability, Tropical Forest


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world.  For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwes... more »

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criticalrealitiesstudio@gmail.com


Areas of expertise: Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental Justice, Digital Arts, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory


Biography, Education and Training

micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (forthcoming October AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Glor... more »


Areas of expertise: Science and Technology, Social Theory, Social Movements, Science Studies, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Activism, Environmental Justice, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Visual Culture


Biography, Education and Training

Before joing the History of Consciousness Department I was Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Director of the Institute for Science and Society and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Priority Cluster EcoSocieties at the University of Nottingham, UK, following appointments at the University of Leicester, Cardiff Universty, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where I also earned his PhD.   I have been a Leverhulme Fellow in the UK and an Alexander-von-Hum... more »

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