Society & Environment

Youjin Chung

Assistant Professor
political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, African studies, Tanzania, feminist theory, science technology studies, critical ethnography, visual methods

Kathryn Teigen De Master

Associate Professor of Agriculture, Society, and Environment
Sociology of agriculture, rural livelihoods, farmland access and financialization, the agri-food tech sector, agroecological/diversified farming systems, terroir

Kristin Dobbin

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension
Environmental justice, drinking water, public policy, natural resource management

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Professor
Race and class determinants of the distribution of health risks associated with air pollution among diverse communities in the United States.

Christy Getz

Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist
Ethics, history, politics, rural development

Seth Holmes

Chancellor's Professor
Medical anthropology, transnational im/migration and refugeeism, critical food studies, racialization and racism, gender and queer theory, naturalization and normalization of social and health inequalities, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

Elizabeth Hoover

Associate Professor
prescribed fire, women leaders in wildfire, fire humanities, food sovereignty, environmental justice, food justice, heirloom seeds

Alastair Iles

Professor of Sustainability Transitions
About

I am originally from Melbourne, Australia. I began my career as an environmental lawyer in a large corporate law firm before I switched to the environmental policy and social science fields during graduate studies at Harvard University. After working with Sheila Jasanoff at Harvard, I undertook postdoc training at the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, which exposed me to the practices and challenges of interdisciplinary research. As well as being an academic, I strongly believe in working with and for environmental and social NGOs. In my "free time", I revel in making clay...

Michael Mascarenhas

Professor
Postcolonial theory and development studies, environmental justice and critical race theory, and science and technology studies

Jonas Meckling

Professor
climate policy, energy policy, political economy