The Institute for Environmental Studies
Faculty & Research Expertise
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- Patricia Anderson, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Expertise: anthrozoology, archaeology.
- Richard V. Anderson, Ph.D. (Colorado State University), Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: aquatic invertebrates and invertebrate ecology.
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- Tama Baldwin, Ph.D. (Ohio University), Professor, Department of English & Journalism. Expertise: creative writing (literary nonfiction and poetry), wilderness themes.
- Steven Bennett, Ph.D. (Indiana University), Associate Professor, Department of Geology. Expertise: surficial processes and field-based hydrogeologic studies, sediment transport, acid mine drainage, septic effluent transport, and eolian processes.
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- David Casagrande, Ph.D. (University of Georgia), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Expertise: wetlands restoration, water systems in arid environments, perception of landscapes and waterscapes.
- Jongnam Choi, Ph.D. (University of Georgia), Associate Professor, Department of Geography. Expertise: effects of climate on human health, wind energy, environmental climatology, biogeography.
- Larry Conrad, Ph.D., Faculty Adjunct, Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Expertise: local and American Indian archaeology in Illinois, curation.
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- Yongxin Deng, Ph.D. (University of Southern California), Assistant Professor (GIS), Department of Geography. Expertise: Digital terrain data, soil science, landscape evolution modeling.
- Thomas C. Dunstan, Ph.D. (University of South Dakota), Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: wildlife ecology and conservation, wetland management, landscape management for endangered wildlife species and human interactions.
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- Donald (Bill) Griffin, Ph.D. (Clark University), Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography. Expertise: history of Hennepin Canal, Illinois Waterway, and Upper Mississippi River.
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- Redina Herman, Ph.D. (University of Illinois – Champaign), Assistant Professor, Department of Geography. Expertise: natural hazards, atmospheric pollutants, web-based meteorological data analysis.
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- Sean E. Jenkins, Ph.D. (University of Missouri- Columbia), Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Alice L. Kibbe Life Science Station. Expertise: Plant ecology and plant taxonomy with an emphasis on wetland and aquatic plants.
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- Te-Hsui Ma, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological Sciences.
- John Mann, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor, Department of English & Journalism. Expertise: writing (poetry), American nature writing.
- Scott McConnell, Ph.D. (University of Arkansas), Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry . Expertise: water and environmental chemistry, soil erosion studies.
- Kenneth W. McCravy, Ph.D. (University of Georgia), Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: insect ecology, conservation biology and biogeography.
- Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, Ph.D. (University of Florida), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Expertise: gender, agriculture and the environment, community development, post-natural disaster assessment and landscape and human planning.
- Shawn Meagher, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: mammalogy, conservation biology, and parasitology.
- Susan T. Meiers, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University), Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: phycology and biogeography in green algae using molecular techniques.
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- Amy M. Patrick, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Assistant Professor, Department of English & Journalism. Expertise: ecocritical theory, environmental rhetoric and discourse, scientific and technical communication.
- Brian D. Peer, Ph.D. (University of Manitoba), Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: ornithology and avian conservation.
- Christopher Pynes, Ph.D. (Florida State University), Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies. Expertise: ethics (environmental), logic, philosophy of science.
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- David Rohall, Ph.D. (University of Maryland), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology and Director, Western Survey Research Center. Expertise: social psychology, social attitudes, rural community life poll.
- Michael A. Romano, Ph.D. (Miami University), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: herpetology and population genetics.
- Susan P. Romano, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale), Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Geography (Macomb and Quad Cities campuses). Expertise: floodplain forests and wetland communities.
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- Chad Sperry, M.S. (Purdue University), Manager, WIU GIS Center, Department of Geography. Expertise: forest management, GIS for emergency management, applied project management.
- Timothy W. Spier, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale), Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Expertise: ichthyology, fish management and GIS.
- David Stevenson, Ph.D. (University of Utah), Professor, Department of English & Journalism. Expertise: creative writing, prose, literature of wilderness.
- Christopher Sutton, Ph.D. (University of Denver), Professor, Department of Geography. Expertise: mapping.
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- Thomas Van Heuklon, M.A. (UCLA), Instructor, Department of Geography. Expertise: climatology, astronomy.
- Roger C. Viadero, Ph.D., FP-C (West Virginia University), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Director, Institute for Environmental Studies.
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- Thomas Williams, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee), Associate Professor, Department of Geography. Expertise: wind energy.
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