Faculty

Environmental Studies Program courses are taught by faculty from a wide variety of fields and specializations, ranging from Geography and History to Ecology and Urban Planning. Many of these individuals have garnered professional awards, citations and honors recognizing the importance of their research and classroom skills. Here you can find more information about our core and courtesy faculty, including research and fields of expertise, as well as how to contact them. Please contact faculty directly for information pertaining to their office hours.

Governance Faculty

Karl B. Brooks

• Ph.D., University of Kansas (2000)
• Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and History
• Interests: Environmental law, North American environmental history and policy, American legal history, and postwar American culture and politics.
• Email: kbrooks@ku.edu
• Office: 3626 Wescoe Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-9464

Christopher Brown

• Ph.D., UCLA (1999)
• Director, Environmental Studies Program
• Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Geography
• Interests: Social relations in Amazonian rural development; expansion of soybean production in Amazonia; development and the Politics of Scale.
• Email: jcbrown2@ku.edu
• Office: 252A Snow Hall; 223 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-8992; (785) 864-5543

Byron Caminero-Santangelo

• Ph.D., University of California-Irvine (1993)
• Associate Professor, English
• Interests: 20th-century British and African literature, postcolonial theory and literature, critical theory, ecocriticism.
• Email: bsantang@ku.edu
• Office: 2042 Wescoe
• Phone: (785) 864-2579

Dorothy Daley

• Ph.D. - UC Davis, 2001
• Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Political Science
• Interests: Environmental policy, hazardous waste, state politics, urban redevelopment
• Email: daley@ku.edu
• Office: 404 Blake
• Phone: (785) 864-9839

Jerry deNoyelles

• Ph.D., Cornell University, (1971)
• Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Interests: Ecology of aquatic ecosystems, the vertical distribution of water quality conditions in thermally stratified water bodies, and the use of in situ experimental methods to determine ecological cause and effect.
• Email: jdsfile@aol.com
• Office: 108C Higuchi Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1504

Dietrich H. Earnhart

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison (1995)
• Associate Professor, Economics; Director, Center for Environmental Policy
• Interests: Environmental economics, law and economics, and comparative economics.
• Email: earnhart@ku.edu
• Office: 435 Snow
• Phone: (785) 864-2866

Johannes Feddema

• Ph.D., Delaware (1990)
• Professor, Geography
• Interests: Anthropogenic impacts on climate, climate change effect on environment and society.
• Email: feddema@ku.edu
• Office: 204 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-5534

David Fowle

• Ph D., University of Notre Dame (2000)
• Assistant Professor, Geology
• Interests: Quantitative geochemical modeling of bacterial-metal sorption reactions; biomineralization and its effects on contaminant mobility in the subsurface; bioavailability and diagenesis of metals in aquatic ecosystems; microbially-promoted mineral dissolution; and biogeochemical interactions in wetlands and soil systems. investication of the linkages between microbial ecology, using culture and molecular based techniques, and iron and trace element cycling.
• Email: fowle@ku.edu
• Phone: (785) 864-1955

Jane Gibson

• Ph.D., University of Florida-Gainesville (1992)
• Professor, Anthropology
• Interests: socioenvironmental and economic transformations related to conservation and development in the U.S. and in Latin America; lligator hunting and wildlife management in Florida, shrimpers and oystermen in Louisiana bayous, and Ozarkers in southeastern Missouri; effects of ecotourism on household livelihood security on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast.
• Email: jwgc@ku.edu
• Office: 631 Fraser
• Phone: (785) 864-2635

Eric Hanley

• Ph.D., UCLA
• Interests: economic and political sociology, he role of international agencies in economic transformations in Eastern Europe, the rise of entrepreneurship in the former Soviet bloc, household survival strategies in contemporary Russia, globalization and the role that experts play in global social movements.
• Email: hanley@ku.edu
• Office: 740 Fraser
• Phone: (785) 864-9412

Kelly Kindscher

• Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991
• Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey. Courtesy Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Interests: Plant communities: prairie, riparian, wetlands and montane meadow; restoration of wetlands, prairies and other habitats; ethnobotany.
• Email: kindsche@ku.edu
• Office:135 Higuchi Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1529

Edward A. Martinko

• Ph.D. - University of Kansas, (1976)
• Director, Kansas Biological Survey
• Director, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program
• Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Interests: Remote sensing of natural resources, insect community ecology, landscape analysis and characterization, ecosystem ecology and management
• Email: martinko@ku.edu
• Office: 108B Higuchi Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1505

Joane Nagel

• Ph.D., Stanford (1977)
• Distinguished Professor of Sociology
• Project Director, C-Change IGERT Program
• Interests: ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and in the global system, cultural production and construction, social and nationalist movements, American Indian activism, and global climate change.
• Email: nagel@ku.edu
• Office: 723 Fraser
• Phone: (785) 864-4114

Shannon O'Lear

• Ph.D. - Syracuse University - 1997 (Geography)
• Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Geography
• Interests: Political environmental issues in the Caucuses and Caspian Sea area, environmental security and vulnerability, environmental conflict
• Email: olear@ku.edu
• Office: 219B Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-2041

Stacey Swearingen White

• Associate Director, Environmental Studies Program
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (1998)
• Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
• Urban Planner with specialty in environmental applications
• Email: slsweari@ku.edu
• Office: 317C Marvin Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-3530

Lecturers

Kathleen Nuckolls

• Ph.D. candidate - University of Kansas - 2008
• Lecturer, Environmental Studies
• Interests: Mammalogy, population biology, and Geographic Information Systems.
• Email: knuck@ku.edu
• Office: 258 Snow Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-8881

Robert Hagen

• Ph.D. - Cornell, 1986
• Research Associate, KU Field Station and Ecological Reserves
• Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Interests: Effect of habitat fragmentation and landscape context on development of terrestrial arthropod communities.
• Email: rhagen@ku.edu
• Office: 258 Snow Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1531

Mark Jakubauskas

• Ph.D., - University of Kansas, 1994
• Associate Research Professor, Kansas Biological Survey
• Courtesy Associate Professor, Geography
• Interests: Remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, landscape ecology
• Email: mjakub@ku.edu
• Office: 116 Higuchi Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1508