ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2019-present
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2016-2019
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Environmental Studies Program, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, 2015-2016
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2014-2015
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Political Science, June 2015, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
- Dissertation: “Pragmatist Policymaking: Rethinking Experimentation and Deliberation in Contemporary Environmental Governance”
- Committee: Gerald Berk (chair), Dennis Galvan, Burke Hendrix, Alison Gash, Colin Koopman (Philosophy)
- Fields: Environmental Policy and Politics, American Politics, Public Policy, Contemporary Political Theory, Pragmatist Philosophy
- M.S., Political Science, 2011, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
- M.A., International Affairs, 2007, American University, School of International Service, Washington, DC
- Field: Global Environmental Politics
- B.A., Politics, 2003, New York University, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
“Democracy, Legitimacy, and Scale: Examining Habermas’ Administrative Turn through the Case of U.S. Forest Policy,” Forthcoming in Administrative Theory & Praxis
“Toward a Resilient Localism,” Forthcoming in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience, edited by Heather Keith and Kelly A. Parker
WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
“The Parties’ Environment: Tracing the Evolution of Environmental Concerns in Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1864-2016”
“Setting Collaborative Forest Governance in History: A Century of Multiple Use Conflicts on a Shifting Legal Terrain”
“Going Green in the Fifties: The Democratic Party and the Birth of Environmental Partisanship”
“Deliberation and Scale: Rethinking Deliberative Theory for Collaborative Practice”
Book Project: The Parties’ Environment: Partisanship and Environmental Political Development from Theodore Roosevelt to the Reagan Revolution
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Amherst College, 2016-present
- Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice, Spring 2019
- Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2018
- Climate Change Politics and Policy, Spring 2018
- Partisanship and Environment in the U.S., Spring 2018
- U.S. Environmental Policy, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
- Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
- Environmental Justice, Spring 2017
- The Politics of Food, Spring 2017, Spring 2019
- Goucher College, 2015-2016
- Introduction to Environmental Studies, Fall 2015, Spring 2016
- Food Politics, Fall 2015
- Environmental Policy, Spring 2016
- Lafayette College, 2014-2015
- Introduction to Environmental Studies, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
- Organizations and the Environment, Fall 2014
- Food, Culture, and Sustainable Societies, Fall 2014
- Environmental Policy, Spring 2015
- Environmental Justice, Spring 2015
- University of Oregon, 2011-2014
- Courses taught as Instructor:
- Introduction to Environmental Politics and Policy, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
- Women and Politics, Winter 2014
- Teaching Assistant, 2007-2013: Introduction to Environmental Politics and Policy; Women and Politics; Introduction to International Relations; Political Theory: Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern; Constitutional Law; Civil Liberties; Causes of War; U.S. Foreign Policy
- Courses taught as Instructor:
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
- Theodore Sorensen Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, 2017-2018
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Goucher College, Environmental Studies, 2015-2016
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, 2007-2014
- Political Science Department nominee for the University of Oregon Graduate School’s Donald and Darel Stein Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2013, 2012
- William C. Mitchell Graduate Summer Research Award, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Summer 2013, Summer 2012
- Everett D. Monte Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 2012-2013
- Graduate Student Travel Award, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
- Rozanne Junker Political Science Graduate Student Scholarship, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, 2009-2010
INVITED TALKS
“Setting Collaborative Forest Governance in History: A Century of Multiple Use Conflicts on a Shifting Legal Terrain.” The Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts, May 2017.
CAMPUS TALKS
“The Trump Administration & Environmental Policy…How Bad is it?” Amherst College, Amherst, MA, March 29, 2018.
“The Politics of Food.” Amherst College, Amherst, MA, April 21, 2017.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
- “Grounding a Resilient Localism in Pragmatist Democracy.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 30-September 2, 2018.
- “Toward a Resilient Localism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Washington, D.C., June 2018.
- “The Parties’ Environment: Tracing the Evolution of Environmental Ideology in Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1856-2016.” Paper presented at the Biennial Journal of Policy History Conference, Tempe, AZ, May 2018.
- “American Environmental Politics in Historical Perspective.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, June 2017.
- “The Parties’ Environment: Tracing the Evolution of Environmental Concerns in Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1864-2016.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, April 2017.
- “Policymaking Innovation and Abiding Political Conflict: How 150 Years of Federal Forest Policy Shapes Contemporary Collaborative Experiments in Forest Management.” Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2016.
- “Rethinking the Systemic Turn in Deliberative Democracy Theory with a Return to the Micropolitics of Deliberation” (with Daniel Andersen). Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2016.
- “Reconstructing Deliberative Theory for Collaborative Practice.” Paper presented at Making Social Science Pragmatic, A Workshop at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, May 22-23, 2015.
- “Rorty’s Fractured Politics, And Why We Need Dewey To Rehabilitate Rorty’s Reformist Vision.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Denver, CO, March 2014.
- “Towards a Pragmatist Feminist Reconstruction of Deliberation.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hollywood, CA, March 2013.
- Roundtable on Environmental Collaborative Governance, organizer and discussant, Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR, March 2013.
- Pragmatism and Social Science Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, participant, October 2012.
- “Rethinking American Environmental Governance Through a Pragmatist Theory of Democracy.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 2012.
- “Bringing Democratic Theory Face-to-Face with Deliberative Practice: Buber, Pragmatism, and the Transformative Power of Personal Engagement” (with Daniel Andersen). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 2012.
- “Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the State.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New York, NY, March 2012.
- “Pragmatic Policy-making: Rethinking the State Through the Work of Dewey, James and Follett.” Paper presented at the Interpretive Policy Analysis Annual Conference, Cardiff, Wales, UK, June 2011.
- “Pragmatic Policy-making: Deweyan Democracy From Theory to Practice in American Governance.” Paper presented at the Dissertation-in-Progress Workshop, Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 2010.
- “Environmental Pragmatism: Good in Theory, Bad in Practice.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2009.
- “One Step at a Time: A Sequential Modes Approach to Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes.” Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
SERVICE
- Editorial Review Board member, Dewey Studies, 2017-present
- Environmental Science and Studies Advisory Committee, Lafayette College, 2014-2015
- Graduate Council, Political Science Department, University of Oregon, 2007-2011
- Committee on Graduate Program Reform, Political Science Department, University of Oregon, 2010-2011
- Department Steward, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, Local 3544, American Federation of Teachers, 2007-2009
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Environmental Defense Fund, intern, June-August 2007
- National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, assistant to the Senior Science Policy Analyst, January-June 2007
- Climate Action Network, intern, September-December 2006
- Alaska Wilderness League, intern, February-April 2006