Assistant Extension Specialist
Research Interests:
Public perceptions of food risks; communication about foodborne illness; emergency preparedness among vulnerable populations; food access and the homebound elderly
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Professor
Research Interests:
Risk perception and risk communication, public policy related to food safety, food security, and public perceptions of controversial issues concerning food, technology, health, and the environment.
Associate Professor (also in Africana Studies)
Research Interests:
African American health; neighborhoods; urban inequality; race and racism
Assistant Teaching Professor
Professor
Research Interests:
Climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, Asia, science-policy assessments, environmental governance.
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Science in the mass media; visual science; culture and science; rhetoric of science, informal science education, museums and science centers
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
urban environmental planning and policy, household sewage services, environmental governance, political ecology, urbanization
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
environmental restoration policy, watershed management, local land development policies, flood control, state building and private interests, policy history
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Governance of natural resources and the environment through international, regional, national and local law
Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
local and regional food systems; environmental justice and food sovereignty; ethical consumption; social movements; interdisciplinarity; sustainability in higher education
Professor, Graduate Certificate Director and Undergraduate Program Director
Research Interests:
How production and consumption systems change to mitigate and adapt to the risks and realitites of environmental change, particuarly climate change.
Professor of Professional Practice
Research Interests:
Water resources management, regional environmental management, watershed management, water utility management, sustainability.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Agricultural transformation; urbanization and feminization of agriculture; the changing role of women farmers, sustainability.
Visting Faculty
Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor Emerita Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology Assistant Teaching Professor Emerita Distinguished Professor Emerita, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor Emeritus Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Kristin Hunter-Thomson draws from her experience teaching in formal and informal education settings to develop cutting-edge science and data literacy focused content and experiences.
Melanie McDermott
Research Interests:
Faculty Emeriti
Research Interests:
Cultural analyses of psychiatric epidemiology; the integration of cultural syndromes into psychiatric epidemiology and clinical research; cultural competence in mental health services research; processes of culture change among immigrants
Baruch Boxer
Research Interests:
China, water resources, dam projects
Research Interests:
Public participation; risk communication; undergraduate education
Research Interests:
Inculcating sustainability into the Rutgers experience for undergraduates, investigating the gamification of sustainability actions. Investigating the effect of the arts on the culture of sustainability. Improving planning for recovery from large scale nuclear or radiological incidents.
Research Interests:
Marine and coastal ecosystems and communities; the institutional aspects of adapting to and managing commercial fisheries
Research Interests:
Sustainable Development, Environmental Sociology, Land Transformations, Deforestation, Forest Transitions, Latin America
Research Interests:
Risk perceptions (including optimistic biases about risk), risk communication, and health-related behavior
