Tom
Bassett,
Department
of Geography
Political
ecology of natural resource management in West Africa, with emphasis
on land use and land cover change, land rights systems, and
environment and development policy.
Vernon
Burton, Department of History
Environmental
history: by looking at the intersection of people and place, Burton
studies how people changed the environment and how people were
changed by the exigencies of their locale.
Mark
Clark, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Water
treatment and monitoring systems; membrane filtration systems;
fouling control strategies.
Donald
Crummey, Department of History
Landscape
change in Twentieth century Africa: methods of measurement and
assessment; underlying sociopolitical dynamics: global narratives of
the environment among Third World land users.
Pradeep
Dhillon, Department of Educational Policy Studies (Philosophy)
philosophy
of language and mind; aesthetics, especially environmental
aesthetics; international education--particularly
sustainability and development; phenomenology; Kantian value theory,
including Kant's theory of natural aesthetics.
Max
Edelson, Department of History
Environmental,
economic, and cultural history of colonial British America;
agriculture and society in plantation America; natural disasters and
empire in the Atlantic world.
Tony
Endress, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences
Restoration
ecology -- the science and practice of ecological restoration.
Courtney
Flint, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences
Community
response to ecosystem disturbance, rural sociology, community and
forestry, risk perception and community action.
Eric
Freyfogle, College of Law
Environmental
law; the consequences of development; human nature and the
environment.
Zsuzsa
Gille, Department of Sociology
Environmental
sociology; sociology of knowledge; sociology of waste and risk;
cultural studies; Eastern Europe; European Union .
Rebecca
Ginsburg, Department of Landscape Architecture
Cultural
landscapes of apartheid and Atlantic slavery; 19th and 20th
century American cultural landscapes.
Ryan
Griffis, New Media, School of Art and Design
Critical
commentaries on people and their setting(s).
Bruce
Hannon, Department of Geography
Ecological,
economic energy systems; conservation; resource utilization; impacts
of changes in technology and consumption.
Diane
Harris, Department of Landscape Architecture
Landscape
history; cultural landscapes of Italian peninsula from 1400-1800;
cultural landscapes of U.S. from 1850-present; race and space;
suburban domestic spaces after 1950.
Stacy
Harwood, Urban Planning
Participatory
approaches to community development; role of urban planners in
social justice; land-use practices in diverse immigrant communities.
Rex
Hess, Department of Veterinary Biosciences
Male
reproductive biology, endocrinology and toxicology, with specific
interests in spermatogenesis, the regulation of stem cells,
testicular growth and development, structure and function of the
epididymis and the role of estrogens in male reproduction.
Bryan
Heidorn, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Citizen and
NGO-based environmental monitoring; environmental information
interchange, scholarly communication, digital libraries and
information retrieval.
Piper Hodson, HDES Staff and NRES Staff
Robert
Hughes, Department of Human and Community Development
Divorce;
single parenting; family life program development and evaluation;
information technology and families; online family life education.
Ezekiel
Kalipeni,
Department
of Geography
Human-environment
interaction; environmental and resource issues in sub-Saharan
Africa; demographic change; geography of health and disease.
Dave
Kovacic, Department of Landscape Architecture
Ecosystem
ecology, wetland ecology; biochemistry of managed and unmanaged
ecosystems.
Michael
Krassa, Chair, Human
Dimensions of Environmental Systems, and Political Science Dep't
Impact of
the physical environment on social network formation and
maintenance; the role of the physical and social environment on
commitment to place, collective action, and political/social
attitudes and behaviors; environmental impacts on health and health
behaviors; the built environment and health; neighborhoods and politics; the social and
physical context of politics.
Ming
Kuo, Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences, and
Psychology;
Director, Landscape and Human
Health Laboratory
The role of
natural elements, views, and spaces in a healthy human habitat;
effects of the environment on the health, and healthy functioning,
of individuals, families and communities.
Laura
Lawson,
Department
of Landscape Architecture
Public
landscapes as community resources addressing social, environmental,
and economic concerns; urban garden programs and community
expression; social and cultural issues in urban landscapes and urban
design.
Martin
Manalansan, Department of Anthropology
Sociocultural
anthropology; sexuality and gender within the processes of
globalization and transnationalism; food, modernity and urban life;
critical theory; cultural studies; public health; Filipino diaspora,
Asian Americans, Southeast Asia, Philippines.
Stephen
Marshak, Department of Geology
Precambrian
tectonic evolution of Brazil and on the nature of Precambrian
tectonic processes; 3-D structural geometry of fold-thrust belts;
midcontinent tectonics.
Rebecca
McBride, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
and
Theater
Dep't
Creation of
new performance projects with emphasis on work that influences
attitudes and behaviors related to societal issues;
multi-disciplinary performing arts management.
Cary
McDonald, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Human
behavior in outdoor recreation environments; behaviors and attitudes
of recreationists; recreational conflict; planning and policy
formation.
Robert
McKim, Department of Religion
Philosophy of religion, the
history of early modern philosophy, and applied ethics. He has
recently taught courses in philosophy of religion and in
environmental ethics. He is currently writing a book on the
implications of religious diversity.
Jennifer
Monson, Department of Dance
Site specific dance; connecting
to the urban environment; the natural environment; migrations.
Pinilla Nohra Mateus, State Natural History Survey
Robert
Olshansky, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Environmental
and land use policy; translating state and federal policies into
effective local actions; planning for natural hazards.
Hua Qin,
Department of Environmental Studies, Uniersity of Illinois at Springfield
Environmental and natural resource sociology,
population and the environment, climate change, community and natural
resource management, research methods, and statistics.
Ann
Reisner,
Department
of Human and Community Development
The press
and social movements; environmental social movements; media
strategies in environmental organizations and environmental mass
media.
Bruce
Rhoads, Department of Geography
Community-based
watershed management and decision-making; fluvial dynamics of stream
confluences; dispersal of sediment-related contaminants through
drainage nets; human impact on the geomorphic stability of
agricultural and urban streams; statistical modeling of fluvial
systems; philosophical aspects of geomorphology.
Jesse
Ribot, Department of Geography
and
Director,
Social
Dimensions of Environmental Policy
(at
the Beckman Institute).
Jesse Ribot's research examines
the 1) causes of environmental change, 2) causes of social problems
related to the environment, and 3) on the making, implementation and
effects of policy solutions on society and the environment. His
research emphasizes human rights, justice and democracy in relation
to water policy, energy policy, biofuels production, urbanization,
forest carbon offsets, biodiversity conservation, extractive
industries, and international trade policies.
Margaret Rosso Grossman, Department of ACES
Dede
Ruggles, Department of Landscape Architecture
Visual
culture and the built environment of the Islamic World,
medieval Mediterranean, and South Asia; theory and practice of
cultural heritage preservation and management.
Carla
Santos, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Power of
text and images to influence tourist's experiences, ways of seeing,
and perceptions of place, host, and culture; potential influence of
media texts on perceptions of those tourists for whom the search for
cultural and historical authenticity is central to their motive for
travel.
Mahir
Saul, Department of Anthropology
West
African agriculture, environmental history, colonial period,
agroforestry and tree plantations, grain marketing, ritual practice
and the environment, ethnography, kinship and social organization,
politics and colonial policies.
Daniel
Schneider, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Ecological
basis for environmental planning and management, environmental
history, community involvement in natural resource management.
Helaine
Silverman, Department of Anthropology
Anthropological
and archaeological perspectives on the built environment; cultural
theory; politics, cultural patrimony management and tourism; spatial
narrative and performance in living ancient cities; urbanism;
landscapes of death.
Anne
Heinze Silvis, Department of Human and Community Development
Community
development including leadership development; sustainable
agriculture; community planning and organizing; Extension work in
Community and Economic Development.
Amita
Sinha, Department of Landscape Architecture
Culture and
landscapes of South Asia; impact of religion, social structure and
political ideology on housing, streets gardens and urban form,
paradigms of nature and its cultural constructions in textual
traditions and in sacred complexes.
Bill
Stewart, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism; Assoc
Dean, AHS
Park
planning and policy, empowerment, community-based conservation, citizen and
stakeholder dialogue processes
William
Sullivan, Department of Landscape Architecture
The effects
of everyday nature on human behavior and functioning, and citizen
participation in environmental decision-making.
Joanne
Vining, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences
Emotion and
environmental decision-making; environmental quality; ecosystem
restoration; public involvement; human-animal interactions.,
qualitative analyses.
Gerry Walter, Department of Human and Community Development
David
Wilson, Department of Geography
Social
theory and the built environment; qualitative methods; North
American urban political processes; social theory and environmental
change; dynamics of neighborhood change; history and philosophy of
geography.