Environmental Studies Affiliated Faculty

Our cross-disciplinary program is led by a program council and advisory board made up of faculty across CSUF who have agreed to be advisors to ENST students. Some students find advisors beyond this list, but this is a terrific place to begin exploring which faculty you may want to work with.

David Adams, dpadams@fullerton.edu  Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice. Specialties: environmental policy and environmental justice, especially fracking and oil extraction, as well as collaborative governance and watershed management.

Hakob Avetisyan, havetisyan@fullerton.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Specialties: construction engineering and management

John Bock jbock@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: behavioral ecology, evolution of humans & nonhuman primates, biological/biocultural anthropology, and CSUF's Center for Sustainability

April Bullock abullock@fullerton.edu Dept. of Liberal Studies. Specialties: environmental ethics and food studies

Matthew Calarco mcalarco@fullerton.edu Dept. of Philosophy. Specialties: animal studies and environmental philosophy

Joe Carlin jcarlin@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geological Sciences. Specialties: marine geology

John Carroll jcarroll@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geography & the Environment . Specialties: GIS, disasters, and conservation

Amy Cox-Petersen,  acox@fullerton.edu Dept. of Elementary and Bilingual Education. Specialties: nature-based learning, educational partnerships, and education in field, museum, and service-learning settings

Daniel Curtis  dcurtis@fullerton.edu Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Specialties: atmospheric aerosols and global climate

Peter Fashing pfashing@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: conservation biology, nonhuman primates, tropical ecosystems, and Africa

Sara Fingal sfingal@fullerton.edu Dept. of American Studies. Specialties: North American borderlands, environmental history, and California

Manuel Galaviz-Ceballos mgalaviz-ceballos@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: ethnography, ecologies of militarized borderlands, undocumented construction workers, gentrification and displacement

Philip Gedalanga  pgedalanga@fullerton.edu Dept. of Health Sciences. Specialties: public health and the environment, microbial water quality

Christopher Gibson, cwgibson@fullerton.edu Dept. of Sociology. Specialties: environmental governance, political economy, public policy, financialization, water management, and environmental justice

Sarah Grant, sagrant@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: environmental anthropology, industrial agriculture, climate change, environmental justice, and multispecies relationships

John Haan jhaan@fullerton.edu Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Specialties: electrochemisty to address alternative energy options including fuel cell technology

Scott Hewitt shewitt@fullerton.edu Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Specialties: kinetics and reaction mechanisms of atmospheric species; lab studies of tar

Volker Janssen vjanssen@fullerton.edu Dept. of History. Specialties: California history, environmental history, and history of technology

Sara Johnson sjohnson@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: urban food systems, community food security, urban biodiversity, environmental influences on growth and development, community-based research, and CSUF's U-ACRE Program

Danny Kim dannykim@fullerton.edu Dept. of Health Sciences. Specialties: environmental chemistry, environmental health, occupational health, relationships between diet and disease

Jeff Kuo jkuo@fullerton.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Specialties: bioremediation systems, wastewater treatment, site assessment, and fate analysis of environmental toxins

Sudarshan Kurwadkar skurwadkar@fullerton.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Specialties: insecticides, micropollutants, and remediation of contaminants

William Laton wlaton@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geological Sciences. Specialties: hydrogeology, hydrology, remote sensing, oceanography

Elaine Lewinnek (coordinator of ENST) elewinnek@fullerton.edu Dept. of American Studies. Specialties: urban history, built environment, and California

Liqing Li liqing@fullerton.edu Dept. of Economics. Specialties: environmental economics, environmental justice, land conservation, and non-market valuation

Mitchell Livy mlivy@fullerton.edu Dept. of Economics. Specialties: environmental economics, urban/regional economics, and real estate economics

Martin McCarthy martinmccarthy@fullerton.edu Program in Environmental Studies. Specialty: Environmental Law

Craig McConnell cmcconnell@fullerton.edu Dept. of Liberal Studies. Specialties: History of modern physics and cosmology, literature and science

Trina Ming,  trming@fullerton.edu Program in Environmental Studies. Specialties: Habitat Restoration

Phoolendra Mishra  pkmishra@fullerton.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Specialties: hydrology and fluid dynamics

Nga Nguyen nganguyen@fullerton.edu Dept. of Anthropology. Specialties: population biology, reproductive ecology, conservation biology, Africa

Natalie Novoa nnovoa@fullerton.edu Dept. of African-American Studies. Specialties:  African American history, urban history, race and sport, Black recreation & leisure

Gabriela Nuñez, gnunez@fullerton.edu Dept of Chicana/o Studies. Specialties: Indigenous food systems, Latina/o/x narratives, and ecohumanities.

James Parham jparham@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geological Sciences. Specialties: biodiversity and evolution 

Bo Young Park   bopark@fullerton.edu Dept of Public Health. Specialties: epidemiology and reproductive health, especially exposure to air pollution and other environmental effects on maternal and child outcomes

Nilay Patel npatel@fullerton.edu Dept. of Biological Science. Specialties: g ene expression, xenobiotics, and neurodegenerative diseases

Misty Paig-Tran empaig-tran@fullerton.edu Dept. of Biological Science. Specialties: functional anatomy, biomechanics, biomimetics, and biomaterials, especially in ichthyology and field marine biology

Thienan Ly Pfeiffer tly@wetlandpermitting.com Program in Environmental Studies. Specialty: wetlands

Angel Piñedo, arpinedo@fullerton.edu, Program in Environmental Studies; Biology. Specialties: environmental education, environmental inequity

Morteza Rahmatian  mrahmatian@fullerton.edu Dept. of Economics. Specialties: resource and environmental economics, regulatory economics, and international trade 

Zia Salim, zsalim@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geography & the Environment. Specialties: Urban geography, social geography, urban sustainability, environmental justice, qualitative methods, Southern California

Mojgan (Mo) Sami msami@fullerton.edu Dept. of Public Health. Specialties: p lanetary and global health, communities, urban planning, health justice and health equity, and the impacts of climate change on health

Darren Sandquist dsandquist@fullerton.edu Dept. of Biological Science. Specialties: desert ecology, plant ecology

Nicole Seymour (graduate advisor of ENST) enst_advisor@fullerton.edu Dept. of English. Specialties: environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and queer ecology

Parvin Shahrestani pshahrestani@fullerton.edu Dept. of Biological Science. Specialties:  evolutionary genomics, population genetics, experimental evolution, aging, immunity,  Drosophila melanogaster

Leaa Short,  leshort@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geography and the Environment. Specialties: environmental geography

Paul Stapp  pstapp@fullerton.edu Dep.t of Biological Science. Specialties: wildlife population and community ecology, species interactions, wildlife-habitat relationships, invasive species, and conservation biology.

Samuel B. Stone, sstone@fullerton.edu, Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice. Specialties: water infrastructure finance; local government management.

Garrett Struckhoff gstruckhoff@fullerton.edu Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Specialty: environmental engineering

Jon Taylor jtaylor@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geography & the Environment . Specialties: political ecology, Japan

Carolyn Thomas crthomas@fulerton.edu Dept. of American Studies. Specialties: cultural history of health, business, food, technology, science, and higher education

Jindong Wu jindongwu@fullerton.edu Dept. of Geography & the Environment . Specialty: remote sensing