The following lists current Environmental Affairs program advisors with departmental links, contact information, and brief profiles.
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Michele Betsill
m.betsill@colostate.edu
(970) 491-5270
B350 Clark
Department of Political Science
Website: http://michele.betsill.googlepages.com/

Assistant Professor - Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000.
Fields: international relations and global environmental politics. Current research focuses on global environmental governance, with particular emphasis on the politics of climate change. I am interested in the increasingly multilevel nature of climate change governance, where governance occurs at various levels of political jurisdiction, from the local to the global, and across the public and private sectors. Current projects examine the politics of emissions trading (with Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto), state and local climate policies (with Barry Rabe, University of Michigan), and transnational climate change networks (with Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham and Liliana Andonova, Colby College). Co-author of Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (with Harriet Bulkeley, Routledge 2003). Co-editor of NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations (with Elisabeth Corell, The MIT Press, 2008) and Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (with Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis, Pagrave, 2006). At the undergraduate level, I teach POLS 362 Global Environmental Politics.

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Philip Cafaro
Philip.cafaro@colostate.edu
(970) 491-2061
226 Eddy
Department of Philosophy
Website: http://www.philipcafaro.com/

Associate Professor - Ph.D., Boston University, 1997.
Philip Cafaro is associate professor of philosophy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. A former ranger with the U.S. National Park Service, his main interests are environmental ethics, ethical theory, and wild lands preservation. He is the author of Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and co-editor of the anthology Environmental Virtue Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). He has published articles in Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Today and BioScience, and in the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity and the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. He is currently working on a book on the ethics of immigration and population growth.

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Professor - M.F.A., Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University.
A former full-time freelance writer of essays and magazine and newspaper articles, Professor Calderazzo teaches nonfiction writing workshops and literature classes. He's the author of a how-to writing textbook, Writing From Scratch: Freelancing; a children's science book, 101 Questions About Volcanoes; and a creative nonfiction book, Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives (Lyons Press, 2004). He writes about a wide variety of topics, including the nature of the personal essay, natural history, Asia, Buddhism, and the interrelationships of science and culture. His work has been cited in Best American Stories and Best American Essays and has appeared in Georgia Review, Audubon, Orion, Witness, and many other magazines.

He is a winner of a Best CSU Teacher award and a creative writing fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts. He co-founded and co-directs Changing Climates @ CSU, an innovative series of talks and educational initiatives that seeks to infuse climate change teaching across the university curriculum and raise ecological literacy.

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Professor - M.A., Ph.D., English, University of Virginia.
Professor Campbell teaches a wide range of courses in nature and environmental literature, 20th-century fiction and non-fiction, and literary theory. Her latest book of literary/environmental nonfiction is Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in an Age of Extinction (University of Utah Press, 2003); other publications include Bringing the Mountain Home and articles about American environmental literature and ecocriticism. She is now working on a field guide to landscape words, co-edits an ecocritical book series, "Under the Sign of Nature," published by the University of Virginia Press, and reviews manuscripts for several other presses and journals.

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Professor – Ph.D., Political Science, University of Houston, 1977.
Fields: environmental politics and policy, public administration. Editor of Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics, 2nd ed., (Westview, 2000), author of The Politics of Hazardous Waste (Prentice-Hall, 1993) and co-editor of Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy (Greenwood Press, 1988). He has also authored or co-authored numerous book chapters and articles appearing in Publius, Administration and Society, American Politics Quarterly, Policy Studies Review, Society and Natural Resources, Western Political Quarterly, Environmental Law, Polity, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Environmental Management, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Forestry and other sources. Research focuses on the formulation and implementation of American environmental policies. Prior work has included analyses of hazardous waste and public lands policies. His current research deals with changing patterns of decision-making in the U.S. Forest Service. Environmental courses taught include Seminar in Environmental Policy: Public Lands (POLS 692), Environmental Policy and Administration POLS 759), and U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy (POLS 361).

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Associate Professor - Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981.
Fields: American politics, natural resource and environmental policy, political behavior and research methods. Author or co-author of articles in Social Science Journal, Policy Studies Review, Polity, Political Methodology, Political Behavior, Journal of Environmental Systems, Society and Natural Resources and book chapters in Federal Lands Policy (Greenwood Press, 1987), Regulatory Federalism for Public Administration (American Society for Public Administration, 1990), Politics in the Postwar American West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995) and Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Westview Press, 2001).Research focuses on American environmental politics and policy, including water politics in western states, the role of intergovernmental relations in environmental policy, state energy policymaking and public lands policymaking. Environmental courses taught include Politics of the Environment and Sustainability (POLS 670), Seminar in Environmental Policy: Politics of Water (POLS 692), Environmental Politics in the U.S. Environmental (POLS 709) and U. S. Politics and Policy (POLS 361).

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Professor and Chair – Ph.D., Brandeis University.
Specializing in American politics, public policy, U.S. environmental politics and policy. Current research interests include energy and environmental politics and policy in the U.S. and the role of money in federal elections.

Courses:
POLS 101 American Government and Politics
POLS 361 U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy
POLS 405 Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Politics
POLS 460 Public Policy Process
POLS 660 Theories of the Policy Process
POLS 709 Environmental Politics in the U.S.

Major Publications:

The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century (University Press of Kansas, 2003)

Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation(University Press of Kansas, 1997). Awarded the Lynton K. Caldwell award from the APSA for best book in environmental politics and policy in 1999.

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Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Utah
Mark Fiege teaches courses in environmental, western American, and U.S. History, including HIST 355, American Environmental History, one of the Environmental Affairs core courses. His teaching and scholarship emphasize the connections between human history and environmental change. He is author of Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (1999), and is completing a book on the environmental history of the United States. A major research project in cooperation with the National Park Service concerns the history of livestock grazing in the national parks. He is a faculty affiliate with Colorado State University’s Center for Public History and Archaeology. He has worked as an historian for RTI, a cultural resources consulting company in Butte, Montana, and as a seasonal ranger in the National Park Service.

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Assistant Professor – Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Specializing in World Environmental History, Latin America, and the History of Antarctica.

Courses:
HIST 481 A2: World Environmental History
HIST 411: Latin America since Independence
HIST 171: World History, 1500 to Present
HIST 492: Capstone Seminar

Select Publications

“Icy Relations: the emergence of South American Antarctica during the Second World War,”Polar Record(2006) 42(2) 153-165.

“Defending polar empire: opposition to India’s proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations in 1956.” (2008) 44(1) 35-44.

“Reluctant Collaborators: Argentina and Chile in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58,”Journal of Historical Geography (forthcoming)

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Marilee Long
marilee.long@colostate.edu
(970) 491-6463
C320 Clark
Department of Journalism and Technical Communication

Professor - Ph.D., Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Marilee Long is an Associate Professor on the Journalism and Technical Communication faculty. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.S. in Agricultural Journalism also at the University of Wisconsin, and her B.A. in Technical Journalism here at Colorado State University. She worked three and a half years as a technical editor, two years as a health writer, and three years as a freelance technical writer and editor. In addition to working with the Journalism and Technical Communication department, she also has a joint appointment with the Department of Natural Resources Recreation and Tourism. Her specialty areas include science communication, public understanding of science, specialized article writing, and technical editing.

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Michael Lundblad
michael.lundblad@colostate.edu
349 Eddy
Department of English

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. University of Virginia
Michael Lundblad specializes in twentieth-century American literature and culture, with particular interests in cultural studies and critical theory, ecocriticism, and animality studies. His published articles include: "Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast,” American Literature (forthcoming in Sept. 2009); "From Animal to Animality Studies," PMLA (forthcoming in Mar. 2009); "Emersonian Science Studies and the Fate of Ecocriticism," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10.2 (2003): 111-34; "Patagonia, Gary Snyder, and the 'Magic' of Wilderness," Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West, ed. Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey (Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003), 73-91; and "Malignant and Beneficent Fictions: Constructing Nature in Ecocriticism and Achebe's Arrow of God," West Africa Review 3.1 (2001) . His reviews and review essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Quarterly, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Film & History. He is currently working on two book projects: “The Progressive Animal: Evolutionary Fictions and the Discourse of the American Jungle,” which reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between new discourses of animality and progressive cultural politics in American literature and culture from the 1890s to the 1920s; and Humane Advocacy: Discourses of Humanity and Animality in Cultural Theory and Practice, a collection of essays co-edited with Marianne DeKoven, that explores the possibilities and obstacles related to linking advocacy for animals with advocacy for various human populations.

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Katie McShane
Katie.mcshane@colostate.edu
(970) 491-2894
421 Eddy
Department of Philosophy
Website: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~kmcshane/

Assistant Professor - Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002.
Fields: Environmental ethics and ethical theory. Author of articles in Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, and Ethics, Place, and Environment, and a book chapter in Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III (Springer 2007). Research focuses on value theory, in particular the moral significance of human valuing attitudes and emotional orientations toward the natural environment. Environmental courses taught include Environmental Ethics (PHIL 345) and Seminar in Environmental Philosophy (PHIL 565).

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Garrett O'Keefe
garrett.okeefe@colostate.edu
(970) 491-3703
C234 Clark
Department of Journalism and Technical Communication

Professor – Ph.D.., Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. O’Keefe is Professor and Associate Chair of Journalism and Technical Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University. He was previously Professor of Life Sciences Communication and of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary research areas include the uses and effectiveness of public information programs, mediated communication, and public opinion. He has expertise in quantitative social science field research. For the past two decades he has focused on environmental information programs, and public health and safety information/education programs. His scholarly work includes over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, symposia, and conference presentations. He has co-authored three books. He has served as principal investigator on over 15 federally funded grants totaling nearly $4 million, and as co-investigator on several others. Primary sponsoring agencies have included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institute of Justice.

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Lori Peek
Lori.Peek@colostate.edu
970) 491-6777
B-237 Clark
Department of Sociology
Website: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~loripeek/

Assistant Professor – Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005
Fields: natural disasters, social vulnerability, racial and religious minorities, children, and qualitative methods. Author or co-author of articles in Sociology of Religion, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards Review, Disasters, Children, Youth, and Environments, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, and Qualitative Research. Research focuses on the social impacts of disasters for vulnerable populations. Dr. Peek has studied the backlash against Muslim Americans that followed the September 11 attacks as well as the consequences of displacement for children and families following Hurricane Katrina. She is the associate chair for the Social Science Research Council Task Force on Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast; a research fellow for the National Institute of Mental Health Research Education in Disaster Mental Health program; a member of the editorial board for Environment and Behavior; and guest editor of a special issue on children and disasters for the journal Children, Youth, and Environments. Environmental courses taught include Sociology of Disaster (SOC 463).

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Kathleen Pickering
kathleen.pickering@colostate.edu
(970) 491-5962
C215 Clark
Department of Anthropology

Professor - Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kathleen Pickering joined the Anthropology faculty at Colorado State University in 1997. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. in History from the College of William and Mary. Before coming to CSU, she was the Director of Conservation Education for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in Washington, D.C. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a legal services attorney on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and she returned there to conduct her dissertation field work. Her research interests include economic anthropology, tribal economic development, traditional ecological knowledge, and the impacts of globalization on indigenous communities. She teaches courses on Indians of North America, Development in Indian Country, Economic and a survey course res and the Global System. She has published a book entitled Lakota Culture, World Economy (University of Nebraska Press). She has co-authored two papers with Anne Ross of the University of Queensland, Australia, entitled "The Politics of Reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: The Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival" (in Human Ecology, 2002) and "Try to Remember What We Forced You to Forget: a Comparative History of Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Appropriation." She has also published papers on the impact of welfare reform on the Pine Ridge Reservation, on micro-enterprise and credit constraints on Pine Ridge, and on the role of culture in income distribution across reservations.

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Tara Shelley
tara.shelley@colostate.edu
(970) 491-0714
B238 Clark
Department of Sociology

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. , Florida State University, 2006.
Fields: Sociology, Environmental Crime and Justice, Criminology and Criminal Justice. Research interests: Public Opinion and the Environment, Environmental Justice, Environmental Corporate Crime, Policing the Environment, and Comparative Justice. Author or Co-Author of Articles in the International Criminal Justice Review, Journal of Drug Issues, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, and the European Journal of Criminology. She has forthcoming publications in Policing and Society, International Journal of Mass Emergencies, and the American Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Paul Stretesky
paul.stretesky@colostate.edu
491-6825
B246 Clark
Department of Sociology

Associate Professor .
Dr. Stretesky has published extensively in the areas of environmental crime and deviance, environmental regulation, and environmental justice. He is the co-author with Ronald Burns and Mike Lynch of Environmental Law Crime and Justice. In this book he examines the various ways criminologists can contribute to the study environmental problems while focusing on issues of race and class. In addition, he has published over 50 articles and book chapters on environmental issues and crime. His most prominent works include the study of the relationship between lead and homicide (with M.J. Lynch) published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and the relationship between race and lead exposure (with M.J. Lynch) published in the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has recently completed an Environmental Protection Agency STAR grant that examined predictors of environmental self policing. Results of that work were published in the journal Criminology. His work on environmental justice encompasses both theoretical and empirical developments in the field, including an examination of the social causes of the distribution of environmental hazards as well as the relationship between carbon emissions and world exports. That research appears in a variety of interdisciplinary journals including Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Society and Natural Resources, British Journal of Criminology, and Journal of Black Studies. Dr. Stretesky has taught courses in environmental justice, environmental crime and deviance, and environment and citizenship.

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Professor - Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1987.
Fields: International political economy and social policy, international environmental and labor politics and policy. Current research focuses on global agreements between multinational corporations and labor unions as a new form of governance, on labor union strategies towards the greening of the economy, and on environmental justice. Most recent works include Globalization and Labor: Democratizing Global Governance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 -with Terry Boswell) and Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (Palgrave 2005- coedited with Michele Betsill and Kathryn Hochstetler).

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Associate Professor - Ph.D., Cornell University.
Pete Taylor received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Cornell University and his B.A. from Trinity University. He specializes in international development, economy and society, and natural resources and environmental sociology.

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Fields include Mass Communication and Risk Perception (primary), Environmental Sociology, Social Psychology, and research methods (secondary). Published work has appeared in Environmental Communication, Society and Natural Resources, Risk Analysis, Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, Journal of Communication and Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs. Founding editorial board member for Environmental Communication. Research interests include a range of topics located at the intersection of health, risk and the environment. Most recently, a series of studies that examine the manner in which individuals interact with information as they form and modify perceptions of risk from suspected environmental cancer hazards. Other relevant research efforts involve information effects and behavioral intention concerning water conservation, and news media coverage of climate change.