Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Environmental Studies Department

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Anthropology Department
Digital Arts and New Media

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Environmental Human Rights
Environmental Justice
Environmental History
World History
South Asian Studies
History of Science
Ethics

Web Site

Primary Office Location Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
424

Additional Location(s) 424, Interdisciplinary Sciences Building

Mail Stop Environmental Studies

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 University of Oxford and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, and the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.

Ravi’s research spans environmental history, theory, and policy. It is particularly focused on the political economy of environment – development conflicts; environmental human rights and environmental justice, and risk and disasters. He is the author of many academic publications, and has mentored several doctoral students.

For a full biography, see Rajan's Website (https://ravirajan.sites.ucsc.edu)

Awards, Honors and Grants

Please see Rajan's Home Page for detailed descriptions of Rajan's awards, honors, and grants. 

Selected Publications

Please see Rajan's Home Page for detailed descriptions of Rajan's publications and research. 

Courses See the UCSC Catalog for a current list of Rajan's courses.