Sustainability, Health, and the Environment

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Sustainability, Health, and the Environment

Sustainability, Health, and the Environment (SHE) integrates the humanities and sciences to study human and environmental impacts on the planet's resources and populations. Our species has impacted the Earth to such an unprecedented extent that a new geologic epoch has been proposed: the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans. Current environmental crises underscore the pressing need for sustainability, an interdisciplinary approach for meeting the needs of current generations without compromising those of future generations, that incorporates wildlife, ecosystem functionality, and organismal health.

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  • Agriculture and food studies 
  • Arts and literature of the environment 
  • Bioethics 
  • Biodiversity and conservation 
  • Climate change 
  • Demography and population ecology 
  • Discard studies 
  • Ecological footprint 
  • Environmental and social justice 
  • Global environmental policy 
  • People, values, and environmental conservation
  • Public health and disease 
  • Sustainable development and energy 
  • Sustainable fashion
  • The intersection of gender, sustainability, health, and the environment
  • Urban health and the built environment 
  • Waste management
  • Water resources

    And more!

Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel, Chair
Research: conservation genetics and genomics, conservation biology, and urban ecology, with a focus on marine turtles

Emily Bauman
Research: contemporary American culture, global humanitarianism, anthropology of religion, visual and political rhetoric

Kevin Bonney
Research: Chagas disease, neglected tropical diseases, case study teaching method, civic engagement, scholarship of teaching and learning

Leo Douglas
Research: natural resource-based conflict, sustainable land management, behavior-change, wildlife trade, conservation biology

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir
Research: social justice theory, migration, gender and environment, human rights

Gerceida Jones
Research: astrophysics, in particular neutron stars, climate change, and community outreach in STEM fields

Nikolay Kukushkin
Research: evolutionary neurobiology, cell biology, information theory, molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory with a focus on the role of time and repetition.

Farzad Mahootian
Research: origins of modern science, philosophy of chemistry, non-equilibrium dynamics

Erin Morrison
Research: evolutionary biology, systems biology, ornithology, metabolomics, adaptation and phenotypic diversification

Robin Nagle
Research: discard studies; material culture, labors of waste, urban geography

Jared Simard
Research: mythology in literature and art; Classical Reception Studies; Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean; Art, Space, and Material Culture; New York City Studies; Digital Humanities and technology in the classroom

Jerome Whitington
Research: Anthropology, environmental humanities, climate change, hydro-social relations, critical materialism, Southeast Asia, science studies

Our first seniors graduated in 2022, and along with our current class, are engaged in the following diverse positions in academia, business, and the non-government world:

Associate Merchandising Strategist
Executive Recruitment and Talent Acquisition
Graduate Student
Fulbright Finalist
National Public Radio Staff
Public Health Researcher
Sustainable Fashion Consultant
Sustainability Consultant