Environmental Studies

Our Faculty

    • NAME

      Joshua Long

    • TITLE

      Professor of Environmental Studies and Department Chair

    • Specialty

      Climate Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Urban Studies, Sustainability Discourses.

    • NAME

      Laura Hobgood

    • TITLE

      Professor of Religion

    • 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; alternative religious experiences (i.e. cycling as religion)

      • NAME

        Romi Lynn Burks

      • TITLE

        Professor of Biology

      • Specialty

        Aquatic ecology, molecular ecology, wetland science, apple snails, invertebrate biology and CHOCOLATE

      • NAME

        Melissa Johnson

      • TITLE

        Professor of Anthropology

      • Specialty

        Topical: Nature, the more than human and the human; Race, Racism, Critical Race Theory; Environment and Place; Conservation; Social Theory; Environmental History; Racial History; Tourism; Gender. Area: Belize; Caribbean; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas