Faculty Experts

Below is a list of Seattle University faculty members who are actively engaged in sustainability-oriented scholarship.

  1. Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability
  2. Sustainability in Academics
  3. Faculty Experts
Group of professor and students studying soil.
  • John H. Armstrong, PhD, Department of Environmental Studies
    • Focus area: environmental politics and justice
  • Rob Efird, PhD, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
    • Focus area: environmental education
  • Carlyn Ferrari, PhD, Department of English
    • Focus area: Black ecofeminism
  • Tanya Hayes, PhD, Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership, Environmental Studies
    • Focus area: sustainable development, natural resource management
  • Benjamin Howe, PhD, Department of Philosophy 
  • Felipe Murtinho, PhD, Department of International Studies
    • Focus area: sustainable development, natural resource management
  • Christina Roberts, PhD, Department of English
    • Focus area: treaty rights, environmental justice
  • Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Department of Film Studies
    • Focus area: scientific film-making, animal studies
  • Eric Severson, PhD, Department of Philosophy
    • Focus area: ethics and responsibility
  • Jason Wirth, PhD, Department of Philosophy
    • Focus area: environmental philosophy
  • Zachary Wood, PhD, Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership
    • Focus area: urban planning
  • Byron Au Yong, MFA, Department of Performing Arts and Arts Leadership
    • Focus area: immigrant and refugee experience
  • Margit McGuire, PhD, Department of Teaching and Learning
    • Focus area: civic engagement, environmental stewardship
  • Colette Taylor, EdD, Educational and Organizational Learning and Leadership
    • Focus area: social justice and community engagement
  • Shiny Abraham, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Focus area: environmental monitoring techniques
  • Rebecca Hartley, PhD, Department of Biology
    • Focus area: avian biology 
  • Kristin Hultgren, PhD, Department of Biology
    • Focus area: marine biology
  • Mark Jordan, Phd, Department of Biology
    • Focus area: wildlife biology management
  • Douglas Latch, PhD, Department of Chemistry
    • Focus area: aquatic environmental chemistry
  • Wes Lauer, PhD, PE, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Focus area: water resources engineering, geomorphology
  • Se-Yeun Lee, PhD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Focus area: hydrology, natural resource management
  • Henry Louie, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Focus area: off-grid electrical systems in rural areas
  • Mike Marsolek, PhD, PE, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Focus area: small-scale wastewater treatment
  • Kristen Skogerboe, PhD, Department of Chemistry
    • Focus area: forensics and food chemistry 
  • McLean Sloughter, PhD, Department of Mathematics
    • Focus area: environmental modeling and renewable energy
  • Jennifer Sorensen, PhD, Department of Chemistry
    • Focus area: education and molecular mechanics
  • Phillip Thompson, PhD, PE, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Focus area: water treatment systems and environmental justice
  • W. Lindsay Whitlow, PhD, Department of Biology
    • Focus area: behavioral ecology, marine and aquatic ecology
  • Nazune Menka, J.D., Northwest Center for Indigenous Law
    • Focus area: decolonization, environmental law, Indigenous Peoples & Tribal Sovereignty