Society & Environment

Youjin Chung

Associate 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 Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Environmental justice, drinking water, public policy, natural resource management, rurality

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

Seth M. Holmes

Professor
Medical Anthropology; Environmental Anthropology; Critical Food Studies; Social Medicine, Migration, Mobility and Citizenship; Social Inequities and Health; Clinical Training; Critical Studies of The Body and Embodiment; Behaviorism and The Privatization of Risk; Coloniality and Postcoloniality; Latin America, North America, 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

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...