Faculty Information

Buchwald, Casper, Hollingsworth, Hougen-Eitzmann, Jamieson,Jeffrey, Kanazawa, Kowalewski, Klassen, Mason, Savina, Vig, Wagenbach

PROGRAM DIRECTOR:

Dale Jamieson (Philosophy)

Specializes in environmental philosophy, and the human dimensions of global change, especially climate change. He teaches courses on environmental ethics, climate change, animals, environmental justice, and american environmenal thought.

TRACK COORDINATORS:

Ed Buchwald (Geology)

Coordinates the Natural History Track. He is the Lloyd McBride Professor of Environmental Studies; and holds a Union, B.S.; Syracuse, M.S.; Kansas, Ph.D. In addition to teaching introduction to environmental geology, advanced environmental geology, paleobiology and hydrology, Buchwald is studying chemistry of lakes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Northern Minnesota.
ENTS courses: Introduction to Environmental Geology, Advanced Environmental Geology.

 

Norman Vig (Political Science)

Holds a Columbia Ph.D. and specializes in comparative political systems, especially Western Europe and the Soviet Union, environmental policy, and political economy.
ENTS courses: Environmental Policy and Politics, European Environmental Policy.

 

Gary Wagenbach (Biology)

coordinates the Environmental Sciences Track. Dr. Wagenbach, trained as an invertebrate zoologist, is examining the population biology of freshwater mussels especially populations in local rivers. He teaches Biology of Invertebrate Animals, Marine Biology (off-campus in Australia and New Zealand), Environmental and Technology Studies courses, a seminar on Topics in Parasitism and Mutualism. He also serves as coordinator of the Environmental Science Concentration and the Wilderness Field Station Summer Program.
ENTS courses: Wetlands: Ecology and Policy.

 

OTHER FACULTY:

 

Barry Casper (Physics)

Professor; Swarthmore, B.A.; Cornell, Ph.D. Interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics, energy policy and nuclear weapons policy, Casper is director of the Carleton Technology Policy Project.
ENTS courses: Sustainable Energy Transition Strategies.

 

William Hollingsworth (Chemistry)

Associate Professor; Texas (Austin), B.A., B.S.; California (Berkeley), M.S., Ph.D. Besides teaching introductory and physical chemistry, Hollingsworth's interests involve using lasers to study photochemical and spectroscopic properties of metal-containing molecules in the gas phase. He is also the head of Carleton's Earth Systems Science Education program.
ENTS courses: Global Biogeochemistry.

 

David Hougen-Eitzman (Biology)

Dr. David Hougen-Eitzman, trained as a population geneticist and ecologist, studies ecological interaction within agricultural ecosystems. In particular, he is interested in developing biological solutions to problems that have usually been attacked with herbicides and pesticides. He teaches laboratories for the Biology of Animals, Introductory Botany, and the introductory Genetics/Energetics, as well as a seminar on Sustainable Agriculture.
ENTS courses: Sustainable Agriculture

 

Kirk Jeffrey (History)

The current History department chair, came to Carleton in 1970 after earning the B.A. at Harvard and Ph.D. at Stanford. He is interested in U.S. history, particularly the areas of medicine and technology. Co-author of Understanding Quantitative History, he is now working on on the invention of the cardiac pacemaker. He recently introduced a new course on "Disease and History."
ENTS courses: Techology and Civilization, American Environmental Thought.

 

Mark Kanazawa (Economics)

(Ph.D. Stanford) has taught economics, industrial organization and environmental economics. He has completed several research projects on water resource policies and their role in western economic development in the United States. Not surprisingly, he is a central figure in the Environmental Studies Concentration. He has recently written on the political economy of railroad regulation in the nineteenth century. Professor Kanazawa will be directing the department's off campus program in Cambridge, England in the summer of 1994 and then will be using his sabbatical leave to complete an important book on the political economy of water resources in the western United States.
ENTS courses: Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, Water and Western Economic Development.

 

Julie Klassen (German).

ENTS courses: The Forest in German Literature, Culture, and Environmental Politics.

 

Michael Kowalewski (English)

Is an expert in American literature and American culture; his courses range from Faulkner's South to the American Western, and in '95 he took students to California to judge its history and culture first hand.

 

Perry Mason (Philosophy)

Professor; Baylor, B.A.; Harvard, B.D.; Yale, M.A., Ph.D. Philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of religion, theory of knowledge.
ENTS courses: Environmental Ethics.

 

Jamie Monson (History)

Joined the department in 1991 and holds a joint appointment at Carleton and St. Olaf. She specializes in African history and is doing research on the impact of the 20th-century colonial regimes on the environment of east Africa. In addition to survey courses, she offers an upper-level course on "Women and Work in African History" and co-teaches a comparative course on peasant societies. She earned the B.A. degree from Stanford and Ph.D. from UCLA.

 

Bev Nagel (Sociology/Anthropology)

Has extensive experience in Latin America, conducting research in Mexico and Paraguay. Her current research focuses on the colonization and agricultural development of Paraguay's eastern frontier. Having received her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1980, she has training in quantitative research techniques, and thus teaches our course in social research methods. In addition, she teaches courses in global population patterns and hunger, modernization and development, as well as sections of the introductory sociology course.

 

Mary Savina (Geology)

Professor; Carleton, B.A.; California (Berkeley), M.A., Ph.D. Savina teaches geomorphology, advanced geomorphology and remote sensing, and does research in the archaeology of Greece.

 

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