6b18 Southwestern University: Environmental Studies: Faculty

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Environmental Studies

Faculty

The faculty represents a wide range of disciplines on campus.

Faculty members are consistently engaged in research, service and activism, often conducting their work across diverse areas of study that include U.S. environmental history; conservation and development in Central America; the place of non-human animals in religious traditions; environmental chemistry; the impact of invasive species; and the role of conventional economic texts in promoting values that are harmful to the environment

  • Steven Alexander

    Professor of Physics
    (512) 863-1633
    Fondren-Jones 125
    email

  • Michael Bray

    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1131
    Kyle E. White 103
    email
    Specialty: Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

  • Romi Burks

    Associate Professor of Biology
    (512) 863-1280
    Fondren-Jones 141
    email
    Specialty: Aquatic ecology, wetland science, apple snails, invertebrate biology

  • Brandon Canfield

    Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies
    (512) 863-1383
    Fondren-Jones 319
    email

  • Rebecca Edwards

    Part-Time Faculty-Large Class-Arts&Sci.
    (512) 863-1130
    Fondren-Jones 128
    email

  • Laura Hobgood-Oster

    Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1669
    Kyle E. White 105
    email
    Specialty: Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; human-dog history; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism; human-animal studies.

  • Melissa Johnson

    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    (512) 863-1406
    Mood-Bridwell 310
    email
    Specialty: Topical:Environment; Conservation; Development; Race and Racism; Social Theory;Environmental History; Tourism; Gender.Area: Belize; Caribbean;U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

  • Joshua Long

    Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
    (512) 863-1493
    Mood-Bridwell 115
    email
    Specialty:  Urban Geography Environmental Politics and PolicySustainable Food and AgricultureEnvironmental AnthropologySustainability Discourses 

  • Emily Niemeyer

    Professor of Chemistry
    (512) 863-1721
    Fondren-Jones 315
    email

  • Emily Northrop

    Associate Professor of Economics
    (512) 863-1591
    Mood-Bridwell 333
    email

  • M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine

    Instructor of Environmental Studies and GIS Lab Mgr
    (512) 863-1646
    Mood-Bridwell 119
    email
    Specialty: GIScience, Neogeography, Geomorphometry, LiDAR, Remote Sensing, Ecological Modeling, Hydrology, Water Resources, Sustainability Science, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development

  • Kathryn Stallard

    Head, Special Collections
    (512) 863-1221
    Smith Library 254
    email

  • Max Taub

    Professor of Biology
    (512) 863-1583
    Fondren-Jones 140
    email
    Specialty: I am a Plant Ecological Physiologist focusing on the responses of plants to environmental change
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