Dear all,
Just a reminder that we are collecting advance votes for Environmental
Studies Section positions. See details below. Email votes should be
sent to [email protected] by Friday, March 30 at 6:00 pm
Eastern time. Please vote electronically only if you will not be at the
ESS business meeting next week.
Thanks very much and see many of you soon in San Diego,
Mark
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Subject: [gep-ed] ISA ESS ELECTIONS 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:50:49 +0000
From: Heike Schroeder <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
ISA ESS ELECTIONS 2012
The Nominations Committee of the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) requests
that ESS members to vote on the list of positions below.
You may vote during the ESS business meeting at the 2012 ISA Convention in San
Diego. If you will NOT be at the section meeting, please send your votes (as
many as vacancies are available for each committee) via email to
[email protected] by Friday, March 30 at 6:00 pm EST, the latest. Mark
Axelrod will be collecting votes and will take them to San Diego.
Heike (on behalf of the Nominations Committee)
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Executive Committee (6 member, rolling 2-year terms): 3 vacancies
Candidates:
(1) Sherrie Baver
Professor Sherrie Baver received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She
teaches at the City College of New York, where she has served as the Director
of the CCNY Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. She has written The
Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto
Rico (Praeger, 1993) and co-edited Latinos in New York: Communities in
Transition (Notre Dame University Press, 1996). In 2006, she co-edited with
Barbara D. Lynch), Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms (Rutgers
University Press). Her present research focuses on environmental
justice/environmental democracy in Latin America, focusing especially on Mexico
and Chile. Professor Baver has received various CUNY awards and two Fulbrights
to Latin America.
(2) Fariborz Zelli
Dr. Fariborz Zelli is an assistant professor at the Department of Political
Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is also a research fellow of the Global
Governance Project, and an associate fellow of the German Development Institute
where he served from 2009 to early 2012. From 2006 to 2008, Fariborz was a
senior research associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research,
UK. Prior to that, he served as a research assistant at the Center for
International Relations in Tübingen. Fariborz received the Ph.D. thesis award
of the University of Tübingen and the award for outstanding university teaching
of the state of Baden-Württemberg. He is a board member of the environment
working group of the German Political Studies Association (DVPW), and a member
of the environment working group of the British International Studies
Association (BISA). His publications include Global Climate Governance Beyond
2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2010 (co-editor).
(3) Pia Kohler
Pia M. Kohler, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Environmental
Studies Program, Williams College. Pia's main research interest is on the
interface of science and politics in the context of global environmental
negotiations. She also specializes in international treaties dealing with
chemicals and hazardous wastes, including the ongoing negotiations for a global
legally-binding instrument on mercury. Pia previously taught in the Political
Science Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has been a
writer/editor for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin since 2002, and earned her
PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban
Studies and Planning.
(4) Erika Weinthal
Erika Weinthal is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Associate
Dean for International Programs at the Nicholas School of the Environment at
Duke University. Her research focuses on environmental and natural resources
policy in the former Soviet Union and Middle East. Her book -- State Making and
Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics
in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002) -- was awarded the 2003 Chadwick Alger Prize
and the 2003 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize. She co-authored -- Oil is not a
Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States
(Cambridge University Press 2010) and is co-editing a volume on water and
post-conflict peacebuilding. Dr. Weinthal is a co-director of the Borderwork(s)
Lab in the Franklin Humanities Institute and serves on the Faculty Advisory
Committee for the Duke Human Rights Center. She served on the ESS Nominations
Committee (2008-2010) and since 2011 is an Associate Editor at Global
Environmental Politics.
(5) Sara Hughes
Sara Hughes is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research. Her work focuses on environmental politics and institutions,
particularly the consequences of their interaction at multiple scales for urban
sustainability outcomes. Her current work evaluates whether and how the
construction and location of authority determine the level of justice in urban
climate change governance. This work focuses on climate change governance in
Mexico City and Delhi. Sara received her PhD from the Bren School of
Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa
Barbara where she evaluated the dynamics of policy change in urban water
management in California and Australia. She also received M.Sc. and B.Sc.
degrees from Michigan State University.
(6) Simon Nicholson
Simon Nicholson is Assistant Professor of International Relations in American
University’s School of International Service. He also serves there as Associate
Director of the innovative Global Scholars program—an accelerated international
studies degree program for high-achieving undergraduates. In addition, Simon is
a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Latin American Strategic Studies
in Bogota, Colombia. Simon’s recent work focuses on global food politics and
the politics of emerging technologies. He was the lead organizer, with Paul
Wapner, Sikina Jinnah, and Kate Goodwin, of last year’s pre-ISA workshop, “GEP
on a New Earth.”
Nomination Committee (4 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies
Candidates:
(1) Sikina Jinnah
Sikina Jinnah is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at American
University. Her research focuses on the changing dynamics of power and
influence in global environmental politics. Her most recent projects examined
the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping
international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and
international trade. Her recent work has been published in Global Environmental
Politics, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Environmental
Research Letters, and Science.
(2) Nikki Detraz
Nicole Detraz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
of Memphis. Her research centers on the intersections between the environment,
security, and gender. Her work has recently appeared in Security Studies,
International Studies Perspectives, and Global Environmental Politics. She has
a forthcoming book on International Security and Gender with Polity Press.
(3) Frank Alcock
Frank Alcock is an Associate Professor of Political Science at New College of
Florida where he teaches courses on world politics, international law, climate
change, marine policy and sustainable development. He is the former Director
of the Environmental Studies program at New College as well as the former
Director of a Marine Policy Institute at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota.
He is currently on leave from New College working as a Senior Fellow with the
Collins Center for Public Policy and serving as a political analyst with ABC
News in Sarasota and CBS News in Tampa. Frank holds a Ph.D. in Political
Science from Duke University, a M.A. in International Affairs from George
Washington University and a B.A. in Economics from Binghamton University.
Sprout Award Committee (5 members, rolling 2-year terms): 2 vacancies
Candidates:
(1) Paul Harris
Paul Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong
Kong Institute of Education. His research on global environmental politics has
been published widely in scholarly journals. He is author of International
Equity and Global Environmental Politics, World Ethics and Climate Change and
Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China. He is editor of 12
books that have included chapters by many ESS members. Paul’s forthcoming books
include What’s Wrong with Climate Politics (and How to Fix It) and the
Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, which will include many
contributions from ESS members. Paul has served the ESS continuously since the
1990s, including as a member of the Sprout, Nominations and Executive
Committees. If elected to the Sprout Committee, he will encourage its members
to consider and reward books that approach international environmental studies
from the full range of perspectives employed by ESS members. Website:
www.ied.edu.hk/links/paul.g.harris
(2) Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder is a senior lecturer in climate change and international
development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.
Her areas of research include forest governance, cities and climate change and
non-state actors and international climate cooperation. She is also a coordinator
of the Governance& Behaviour Theme in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the long-term
international research project on Earth System Governance under the auspices of the
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Previous positions include James Martin senior fellow and Tyndall fellow at the
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and post-doctoral researcher
and executive officer of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change (IDGEC) project at the Bren School, University of California, Santa Barbara.
(3) Henrik Selin
Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at
Boston University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional
politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His book Global
Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (MIT Press,
2010) was a Sprout Award runner-up in 2011. He is the co-editor of Changing Climates in
North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance (MIT
Press in 2009, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics:
Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate in 2009, with Miranda Schreurs and
Stacy VanDeveer). In addition, he is the author and co-author of more than forty peer
reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous reports, reviews and
commentaries. He is also Editor for Environment& Planning C: Government&
Policy as well as the book review editor for Review of Policy Research, which is
affiliated the American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology and
Environmental Politics (STEP) section.
(4) Lars Gulbrandsen
Lars H. Gulbrandsen is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the research
program on Global Governance and Sustainable Development at the Fridtjof Nansen
Institute in Norway, where he has been employed since 2000. Gulbrandsen holds a
PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and an MSc from London
School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was a Visiting Scholar in
2007 at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research
interests are in the area of global environmental politics, with a particular
focus on forest politics, climate change politics, eco-certification, corporate
social responsibility, and international regimes. He is the author of
Transnational Environmental Governance: The Emergence and Effects of the
Certification of Forests and Fisheries (Edward Elgar 2010) and more than 20
peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He serves regularly as
reviewer for a number of international journals and joins the editorial board
of Global Environmental Politics for a five year term, covering the issues to
be published from 2013 to 2017.
Representative to the Global Environmental Politics editorial board (1 member,
3-year term): 1 vacancy
Candidates:
(1) Bjorn-Ola Linner
Björn-Ola Linnér is professor in Water and Environmental Studies and at the
Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University and a
visiting fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at
the University of Oxford. His research focuses on international policy-making
on environment and development. His recent publications analyse integration of
policies on climate change, sustainable development and low-carbon energy
technologies as well as transnational governance and utopian/dystopian thought
in environmental science and policy. He is also author of The Return of
Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population–Resource Crises. He was member
of the Swedish delegation at the Adaptation and Approval of the fourth
Assessment Report of IPCC. He is currently leading a research program on
non-state actors in the new landscape of international climate cooperation and
is also one of the co-leaders of the Centre for Excellence for Nordic Strategic
Adaptation Research (NORD-STAR).
(2) Joerg Balsiger
Jörg Balsiger is Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography and
Environment of the University of Geneva, and Senior Researcher and Lecturer at
the Institute for Environmental Decisions of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich. He was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European
University Institute, received a PhD degree from the University of California
at Berkeley and a Master's Degree from Georgetown University's School of
Foreign Service, and worked for several years in international development as
an expert on forest policy and administration, capacity building, and donor
coordination. Dr. Balsiger is the author of Uphill Struggles: The Politics of
Sustainable Mountain Development in Switzerland and California; co-editor, with
Stacy VanDeveer, of a forthcoming special issue on regional environmental
governance in Global Environmental Politics; co-editor, with Bernard
Debarbieux, of Regional Environmental Governance: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs; and has published
several articles on international, regional, and local environmental governance.
(3) Katja Biedenkopf
Katja is a postdoctoral research fellow at the research group 'The
Transformative Power of Europe' at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Her
research centers on EU external governance in various fields of environmental
policy such as electronic waste, chemicals and climate change. Her dissertation
investigated the external effects of EU electronic waste policy on the United
States. Currently, she works on a project that analyses emissions trading
systems in North America. In August 2012, Katja will take up a position of
Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(4) Elizabeth Havice
Elizabeth Havice is an assistant professor of international development and
globalization at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Geography
Department. Her research interests are at the intersection of international
political economy, development studies and environmental studies with a focus
on how regulatory interventions and political economy circumstances (e.g.
competition, market access, inter-state, state-firm and firm-firm relations)
influence the environment and socio-economies in resource based-industries. Her
work emphasizes the multiple dimensions of resources access and investigates
how various forms of regulation moderate connections between human and natural
systems. She has spent a considerable amount of time researching these dynamics
as they apply in the global tuna industry. She holds a PhD in from the
University of California-Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and
Management and has published in Global Environmental Politics, Islands Studies
Journal, Journal of Agrarian Change and Marine Policy.
Dr. Heike Schroeder
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and International Development
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Tel. 01603 591036
Email: [email protected]
Profile: http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/schroeder
Senior Visiting Research Associate
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford
Profile: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/schroederheike.php
