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Faculty and Staff The Environmental Studies major is interdisciplinary, which means that there are only a few courses in the catalog which are designated as Environmental Studies courses. This allows Environmental Studies majors to have the opportunity to take courses in a broad range of departments and Programs. There is a member of the Environmental Studies faculty in each of the departments in which students can choose to core, minor, or major as part of their Environmental Studies major. In addition to these faculty, the Department Chair, Dan Hornbach, is available to assist students in designing their majors and choosing courses.
Tel.: 651-696-6101 Courses: Prof. Hornbach, teaches in the area of environmental science and ecology. His research focuses on freshwater ecology, especially the biology and conservation of freshwater mussels. He is a member of two endangered species recovery teams and works closely with the National Park Service.
Tel.: 651-696-6802 Environmental Studies Teaching Interest: Environmental Politics and Policy, Climate Change and Energy Issues, Water Management, Citizen Science Scholarly Interest: Prof. Phadke's research and teaching is at the nexus of environmental studies, international development and science and technology studies. Her interests lie in the democratization of science and technology decision-making and the hybridization of technical expertise and local knowledge. Her current research focuses on private and public development of water resources. In addition to her water related work, she is developing new projects in the fields of wind energy and desalination.
Tel.: 651-696-6803 Courses: Scholarly Interests: Environmental history; United States since 1877; U.S. cultural and intellectual history; history of technology; urban history. Prof. Wells' current book project, "Car Country: Automobiles, Roads, and the Origins of the Modern American Landscape, 1890-1960," focuses on the cultural and environmental ramifications of the decision to reorient the American landscape around near-universal automobile ownership in the decades before 1960.
Courses: Environmental Science, Ornithology, Ecology, and Winter Ecology. Research: Impacts of mercury and lead on wild populations of Common Loons; Winter roosting and flocking by cavity nesting birds. Prof. Dosch is a terrestrial ecologist with a particular interest in birds and the ecological challenges of the winter season. His current research projects are investigating the impacts of heavy metals (airborne mercury pollution and lead fishing tackle) on Common Loons (Gavia immer) in Minnesota and the population and community ecology of over-wintering birds, particularly Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapilla).
Tel.: 651-696-6164 Courses: Environmental Classics and Conservation Psychology. Research/Scholarly Interests: Prof. Manning?s research examines the cognitive and other psychological factors that influence environmentally-responsible behavior choices. She is particularly interested in environmental communication and the role of framing and use of emotion-evoking images in conveying information about global warming.
Tel.: 651-696-6274 Ann Esson has a B.A. in Technical Communication from Metropolitan State University and began working in the Environmental Studies Department in February 2000. Besides the administrative duties, she also maintains the departments's various web sites. From her home, she maintains other web sites, and she likes to travel, bike, and golf.
Tel.: 651-696-6809 Prof. Dawes teaches American literature. He is the author of The Language of War (Harvard University Press, 2002) as well as numerous articles on topics including narrative theory, human rights law, literature and medical studies, Shakespeare, gender and sexuality, and pedagogical technique. The Language of War examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on U.S. literature and culture from the Civil War through World War II. The book proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself? His teaching interests include, among other things, interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies (ethics, law, psychology, sociology, medicine) and American literature from all periods. He is a Lilly Fellow at Macalester College.
Jim Doyle is an experimentalist in plasma and materials physics with an emphasis on materials used in thin film solar cells. Students are regular participants in his NSF-funded studies of reactive sputtering, computer modeling of plasma systems, and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition.
Arjun Guneratne is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on two areas of inquiry: firstly, the emergence of an ethnic identity among the Tharu of Nepal and its relationship to processes of state formation, and secondly, the relationship between environmentalism and globalization in Sri Lanka. His research in Nepal since 1989 has led to a number of published articles and a book, Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal, published by Cornell University Press in 2002. Since then, he has turned his attention to the study of environmental issues in South Asia. He is currently editing a book on cultural understandings of the environment in the Himalaya, which examines how different cultural groups in the region understand the concept of environment and what practical consequences result from those understandings for bio-physical processes. He is also working on a longer-term project that examines the emergence of an environmental movement in Sri Lanka, its roots in the period of British colonialism and the way Sri Lankan environmentalism has been shaped by contemporary globalizing processes.
Tel.: 651-696-6768 Environmental Studies Teaching Interest: Every spring, Prof. Kuwata teaches an intermediate level course in Analytical Chemistry (Chem 222). This course covers measurement and data analysis techniques commonly used to quantify chemical species in the environment. While designed for chemistry majors, Chem 222 is also appropriate for ES majors who have had a year of General Chemistry. Environmental Studies Scholarly Interest: Prof. Kuwata and his undergraduate collaborators use computation to study the mechanisms by which free radicals and organic aerosols are formed in the atmosphere. Specifically, they use the equations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to predict the fates of transient chemical species that are difficult to study experimentally.
Tel.: 651-696-6441 Courses: Environmental Geology (Geol120/Envi120), History and Evolution of the Earth, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Glaciers and Climate Scholarly Interests: Prof. MacGregor is a geomorphologist with a specialty in glacial processes. Her current research focuses on understanding the role of glaciers in shaping alpine landscapes. She uses tools such as GPS, stream gauging stations, and good old-fashioned shovels to understand how glaciers behave over daily to annual timescales, and how they affect the rocky landscapes they occupy. She also uses numerical models to simulate their role in creating the fantastic mountainous landscapes we see today. In addition to her work on glaciers, she is interested in the effects of dams on sediment and water transport in river systems.
Tel.: 651-696-6126 Prof. Moseley is an environmental and development geographer with a particular interest in Third World environmental and agricultural issues. He teaches courses on environment and development, introductory human geography and the geography of Africa. Bill joined the Macalester faculty in the fall of 2002. Before arriving at Macalester, he taught courses at Northern Illinois University and the University of Georgia. He also was employed for ten years in the field of international development and environment as a project manager and policy analyst for organizations such as the Save the Children Fund (UK), the World Bank Environment Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Peace Corps. Prof. Moseley received his B.A. in history from Carleton College, two masters degrees from the University of Michigan (M.P.P. in international public policy and M.S. in environmental policy), and his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia. His research has focused on the political-economy of human-environment interactions in Africa, as well as conceptual and applied studies related to rural livelihood security. He has worked and conducted fieldwork in Mali, Niger, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Lesotho. Crosslisted Courses:
Tel.: 651-696-6172 Prof. Warren is a prolific scholar and award-winning teacher. She has edited five anthologies, written a book, Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What it is and Why it Matters (2000), and currently is completing a first-of-its-kind anthology, with on-line teaching aids, entitled Gendering Western Philosophy: Pairing Men and Women Philosophers From the 4th Century B.C.E to the Present (2004). She has given more than 225 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences, and is internationally reknowned as an ecofeminist philosopher. She has won several teaching awards and is actively engaged in service activities in the areas of critical thinking, environmental ethics, and philosophy for children.
Tel: 651-696-6482 Prof. West specializes in public finance and environmental economics. In particular, her research examines three aspects of vehicle pollution control policies. First, she examines the efficiency of market-based incentives that do not require the measurement of emissions. She uses both theoretical and empirical models to compare the effects of taxes on gasoline and “dirty” car characteristics and subsidies to “clean” car characteristics with an ideal but infeasible direct tax on emissions. Second, she analyzes the equity implications of these policies, paying close attention to how inclusion of behavioral responses affects distributional estimates. Third, she considers the efficiency implications of interactions between the gasoline market and the labor market and finds that since gasoline and leisure are complements, the optimal tax on gasoline is larger than has previously been estimated. Her work has been published in Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Regional Science and Urban Economics and in the papers and proceedings issues of the American Economic Review and the National Tax Journal. In addition, she co-edited the interdisciplinary volume Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean ( Prof. West teaches Principles of Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Public Finance, and Urban Economics. |
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