EnvS Faculty - Social Science

Kodjotse Afatchao
Associate Director

Dr. Romuald K. Afatchao, Associate Director of the Martin Institute and Program in International Studies. His interests include International development, International Environmental Law and policy, climate change, poverty and development.

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Katherine Aiken
Dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences and Professor of History

Katherine Aiken, Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences is a professor of history with an emphasis in social and cultural history, women and labor.

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Rula Awwad-Rafferty
Professor

Focus: Environment and behavior interaction; Factors affecting quality of life in the built environment: physical, cultural, social, and psychological; Culture and resettlement: resettlement of cultural groups, elderly, health care applications, and military; Adaptive reuse applications and community building; Sense of place: place attachment and identity; conflict and place, security and place attachment; Vernacular architecture; Interdisciplinary design education; Experiential approaches to understanding the physical and metaphorical parameters of interior spaces; Studio applications.

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Barbara Cosens
Professor of Law

Courses Taught: Interdisciplinary Methods in Water Resources; Law and Science Seminar, Water Law I & II, Water and Energy Policy Seminar, Writing the Environment

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Stephen Drown
Professor; Chair

Focus: Design Theory, Design Development, Graphics, Professional Practice

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Levan Elbakidze
Assistant Professor

(208) 885-7382 | lelbakidze@uidaho.edu

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JoEllen Force
Professor; Department Head

Specialty Areas of Interest: Forest policy and the relationships between people and natural resources; Human Ecosystem Model and related studies

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Patrick Gillham
Assistant Professor

Patrick Gillham is an assistant professor of Sociology. His areas of interest are: Political Sociology, Social and Environmental Conflict, Social Movements, Globalization, and Social Control of Political Dissent.

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Dale D. Goble
Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law

Courses taught: Legal History, Natural Resources Law, Natural Resources Seminar, Publics Land Law, Torts

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James Gregson
Associate Dean and Professor

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Bruce Haglund
Professor

Research Areas: Environmental technologies (heating, cooling, lighting, acoustics, water use); Passive solar heating and cooling; Natural lighting; Architectural design; Green architecture; Computer applications; Historic preservation; Vernacular architecture; Small town revitalization; Sustainable urban design issues; English green architecture

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Lorie Higgins
Extension Specialist, Associate Professor

(208) 885-9717 | higgins@uidaho.edu

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Leontina Hormel
Associate Professor

Leontina Hormel is an associate professor of Sociology. Her areas of research and teaching include globalization, political economy, social inequalities, social theory and research methods. She has conducted ethnographic work in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and throughout the state of Idaho.

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Xiao Hu
Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Urban and community design; Cultural, social and political representations of architecture; Spatial identity; non-Western architectural philosophies and history; Sustainable design; Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural learning

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Harley Johansen
Professor

Dr. Johansen grew up in a Danish immigrant community in rural Wisconsin and developed a strong interest in rural social and economic trends and in the Baltic and Scandinavian region. He has since received Fulbright fellowship grants to work in this region at universities in Finland and Russia and an additional placement in the new country of Macedonia.

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Anne Liu Kern
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Advanced Studies

Research interests: Science teaching and learning; science knowledge development; STEM integration for science understanding; integration of Indigenous knowledge and cultural relevance with western STEM. Plus Cooperative learning and team functioning in STEM disciplines.

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John Lawrence
Professor of Business

Ph.D. 1993 Penn State University
Areas of Expertise:quality management, business/environmental sustainability, and case research methods.
Office: ALB215 | Phone: (208) 885-5821 | Email: jjl@uidaho.edu

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Douglas Lind
Professor of Philosophy

Douglas Lind is a professor and department chair at the University of Idaho. His areas of research & teaching are: Philosophy of Law, Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, Environmental Philosophy, and Ethics.

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Gary Machlis
Professor of Conservation; Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service

Specialty Areas of Interest: Social ecology; Relationship between biophysical and socioeconomic systems; Development of usable knowledge for conservation; Resource management; Sustainability sciences; Warfare ecology

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Brant Miller
Assistant Professor, Science Education

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Michael O'Rourke
Professor of Philosophy

Michael O’Rourke is also a faculty member in Neuroscience and Environmental Science, and Fellow in the Microelectronic Research and Communications Institute at the University of Idaho. His interests include the nature of epistemic integration and communication in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and the nature of linguistic communication between intelligent agents.

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Sandra Lee Pinel
Assistant Professor

Research and teaching interests: Local and regional land use planning, indigenous and community culture in planning theory and methods; cultural landscapes, multi-jurisdictional governance; limits to participatory and collaborative planning; conflict management; community economic development; epistemologies in planning cultural resource management; ethnographic research methods, social impact and contextualized case study research.

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Gundars Rudzitis
Professor

Research Interests: Environmental/Resource Policy, Migration and Regional Development, American West, Baltic Countries

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Nick Sanyal
Associate Professor

Areas of specialization: Directing scholarship on and learning about the wildlands, communities and institutions necessary for the use, enjoyment, understanding and conservation of our natural resources; The Academic Advising- Service Learning-Teaching interface; Conservation planning; human dimensions of fish and wildlife management.

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Adam Sowards
Associate Professor; Director, Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies

Adam M. Sowards is an environmental historian who focuses on North America, especially the West, and is affiliate faculty with Environmental Science, Water Resources and American Studies.

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Philip Watson
Assistant Professor

(208) 885-6934 | pwatson@uidaho.edu

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Patrick Wilson
Associate Professor

Patrick Wilson's research interests include natural resource policy and politics, and comparative public policy; politics of species conservation, tribal government management of natural resources, and water policy and politics.

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J. D. Wulfhorst
Professor

(208) 230-7333 | jd@uidaho.edu

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