Current Students’ Research Interests
- Alisha Adelman
- Alienation, spirituality, solidarity, identity.
- Dawn Albrecht
- emergency planning for vulnerable populations on the North Coast.
- Alysha Bergeson
- food advertising; constructions of citizenship, nationality, and gender in CA.
- James Braggs
- Low intensity urban warfare, "community" formation, race war, interlocking systems of struggle.
- Emily Bridgewater
- Responses to sea level rise along the coast of California: Case studies of adaptive practices.
- Nikki Caputo
- ethical mapping, knowledge democracy, waste and pervasive plastic pollution.
- Victor Espinosa
- Analysis of intersection of environmental, immigration, and labor laws that affect transnational communities, specifically in California's agricultural industry.
- Elisha Dan Gilner
- Water privatization and commodification in the 21st century. Looking at issues of water privatization through Marxian critical theory and at the global water justice movement that has developed as a counter force to this phenomena.
- Suzanne Guerra
- Comparative ethnic labor histories; cultural landscapes and the intersections of technology and historic and natural resources.
- Laura Hurwitz
- Food justice; social center movements; traditional ecological knowledge; community decision making through consensus; alternative curriculum in public schools.
- Elisabeth Keesling
- Food politics, agroecology, and rural community economic development.
- Barb Klessig
- The archaeology, history and culture of textiles and their influence on women, community and agriculture.
- Katie Koscielak
- reclamation of identity and space via public art (street art, murals, graffiti) in Mexico City.
- Kerry Leslie
- Latino "environmentalism"; Urban-Latino relationships with mainstream and local environmental organizations, as well as the environmental movement as a whole; areas of collaboration between local and mainstream groups, and between diverse communities to create a more inclusive and holistic modern environmental movement.
- Leanne Lynch
- City planning with a concentration in enhancing urban ecosystems through best management practices.
- Ruthie Maloney
- Oral history of Yurok language.
- Naomi Merwin
- Socio-ecological issues in Trinity County; rural economic development; alternatives to capitalist industrial strategies.
- Rebekah Rafferty
- The perceived human-nature dichotomy; sociocultural conceptions of large carnivores in North America, as seen through narrative scholarship, ecocriticism, and the telling of stories.
- Karen Raskin
- historical context/overview of Humboldt County barns.
- Julie Ryan
- Applying ecological resilience theory to urban areas as a tool to increase cities abilities to withstand and recover from large-scale events such as natural disasters and climate change, as well as become more sustainable communities overall.
- Marissa Schmitz
- Humboldt County non-industrial forest-owners and their perceptions of the carbon market: constraints and opportunities.
- Kara Simpson
- role of digital and film media in native grassroots water/environmental justice organizing.
- Jenny Ursini
- The relationship between farming/gardening and health.
- Patrick Walsh
- Land and identity, responses to drought, water rights in the southwest, community irrigation systems as water democracies.
- Wendy Willis
- Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee farmers’ perceptions of shade-grown agricultural practices.