Faculty

Environmental Studies Program courses are taught by faculty from a wide variety of fields and specializations, ranging from Geography and History to Ecology and Urban Planning. Many of these individuals have garnered professional awards, citations and honors recognizing the importance of their research and classroom skills. Here you can find more information about our core and courtesy faculty, including research and fields of expertise, as well as how to contact them. Please contact faculty directly for information pertaining to their office hours.

Governance Faculty

	Karl B. Brooks Ph.D., University of Kansas (2000) Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and History Interests: Environmental law, North American environmental history and policy, American legal history, and postwar American culture and politics. Email: kbrooks@ku.edu Office: 3626 Wescoe Hall Phone: (785) 864-9464
	Christopher Brown Ph.D., UCLA (1999) Director, Environmental Studies Program Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Geography Interests: Social relations in Amazonian rural development; expansion of soybean production in Amazonia; development and the Politics of Scale. Email: jcbrown2@ku.edu Office: 252A Snow Hall; 223 Lindley Phone: (785) 864-8992; (785) 864-5543
	Byron Caminero-Santangelo Ph.D., University of California-Irvine (1993) Associate Professor, English Interests: 20th-century British and African literature, postcolonial theory and literature, critical theory, ecocriticism. Email: bsantang@ku.edu Office: 2042 Wescoe Phone: (785) 864-2579
	Dorothy Daley Ph.D. - UC Davis, 2001 Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Political Science Interests: Environmental policy, hazardous waste, state politics, urban redevelopment Email: daley@ku.edu Office: 404 Blake Phone: (785) 864-9839
	Jerry deNoyelles Ph.D., Cornell University, (1971) Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Interests: Ecology of aquatic ecosystems, the vertical distribution of water quality conditions in thermally stratified water bodies, and the use of in situ experimental methods to determine ecological cause and effect. Email: jdsfile@aol.com Office: 108C Higuchi Hall Phone: (785) 864-1504
	Dietrich H. Earnhart Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison (1995) Associate Professor, Economics; Director, Center for Environmental Policy Interests: Environmental economics, law and economics, and comparative economics. Email: earnhart@ku.edu Office: 435 Snow Phone: (785) 864-2866
	Johannes Feddema Ph.D., Delaware (1990) Professor, Geography Interests: Anthropogenic impacts on climate, climate change effect on environment and society. Email: feddema@ku.edu Office: 204 Lindley Phone: (785) 864-5534
	David Fowle Ph D., University of Notre Dame (2000) Assistant Professor, Geology Interests: Quantitative geochemical modeling of bacterial-metal sorption reactions; biomineralization and its effects on contaminant mobility in the subsurface; bioavailability and diagenesis of metals in aquatic ecosystems; microbially-promoted mineral dissolution; and biogeochemical interactions in wetlands and soil systems. investication of the linkages between microbial ecology, using culture and molecular based techniques, and iron and trace element cycling. Email: fowle@ku.edu Phone: (785) 864-1955
	Jane Gibson Ph.D., University of Florida-Gainesville (1992) Professor, Anthropology Interests: socioenvironmental and economic transformations related to conservation and development in the U.S. and in Latin America; lligator hunting and wildlife management in Florida, shrimpers and oystermen in Louisiana bayous, and Ozarkers in southeastern Missouri; effects of ecotourism on household livelihood security on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast. Email: jwgc@ku.edu Office: 631 Fraser Phone: (785) 864-2635
	Eric Hanley Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1997) Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Interests: the role of international agencies in economic transformations in Eastern Europe, the rise of entrepreneurship in the former Soviet bloc, and household survival strategies in contemporary Russia, the role that experts play in global social movements. Email: hanley@ku.edu Office: 740 Fraser Phone: (785) 864-9412
	Kelly Kindscher Ph.D. - University of Kansas, 1991 Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey. Courtesy Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Interests: Plant communities: prairie, riparian, wetlands and montane meadow; restoration of wetlands, prairies and other habitats; ethnobotany. Email: kindsche@ku.edu Office:135 Higuchi Hall Phone: (785) 864-1529
	Edward A. Martinko Ph.D. - University of Kansas, (1976) Director, Kansas Biological Survey Director, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Interests: Remote sensing of natural resources, insect community ecology, landscape analysis and characterization, ecosystem ecology and management Email: martinko@ku.edu Office: 108B Higuchi Hall Phone: (785) 864-1505
	Joane Nagel Ph.D., Stanford (1977) Distinguished Professor of Sociology Project Director, C-Change IGERT Program Interests: ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and in the global system, cultural production and construction, social and nationalist movements, American Indian activism, and global climate change. Email: nagel@ku.edu Office: 723 Fraser Phone: (785) 864-4114
	Shannon O'Lear Ph.D. - Syracuse University - 1997 (Geography) Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Geography Interests: Political environmental issues in the Caucuses and Caspian Sea area, environmental security and vulnerability, environmental conflict Email: olear@ku.edu Office: 219B Lindley Phone: (785) 864-2041
	Stacey Swearingen White Associate Director, Environmental Studies Program Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (1998) Assistant Professor, Urban Planning Urban Planner with specialty in environmental applications Email: slsweari@ku.edu Office: 317C Marvin Hall Phone: (785) 864-3530

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Lecturers

	Kathleen Nuckolls Ph.D. - University of Kansas – 2010 Lecturer, Environmental Studies Interests: Mammalogy, population biology, and Geographic Information Systems. Email: knuck@ku.edu Office: 258 Snow Hall Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:00 - 12:15, & by appointment Phone: (785) 864-8881
	Robert Hagen Ph.D. - Cornell, 1986 Research Associate, KU Field Station and Ecological Reserves Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interests: Effect of habitat fragmentation and landscape context on development of terrestrial arthropod communities. Email: rhagen@ku.edu Office: 258 Snow Hall Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday, 11:00-12:00, & by appointment Phone: (785) 864-1531
Mark Jakubauskas Ph.D., - University of Kansas, 1994 Associate Research Professor, Kansas Biological Survey Courtesy Associate Professor, Geography Interests: Remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, landscape ecology Email: mjakub@ku.edu Office: 116 Higuchi Hall, West Campus Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12:00 - 2:00 Phone: (785) 864-1508