Graduate Affiliates

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PATRICK HANCOCK Doctoral Student, Engineering Systems and Environment Patrick’s research explores how to motivate the resolution of social dilemmas, like climate change, in ways which meet, or exceed, the scientific consensus for action. His dissertation proposal is still forming, but will likely focus on how to motivate the emergence of governance behaviors, in existing network structures, which facilitate more effective dilemma resolution. His interests more broadly lie at the convergence of complex systems theory and behavioral science in an attempt to promote more equitable and sustainable present states, and future possibilities, in the Anthropocene.📧 Contact

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MELISSA H. HEY Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Sciences Melissa’s research explores how a prevalent form of sensory pollution created by humans – light pollution – disrupts our environment. Her dissertation focuses on direct and indirect effects of light pollution on ecosystem processes and how these are mediated by animals’ responses to its presence. Her interests more broadly lie in urban ecology and trying to find sustainable ways for humans to co-exist with nature.📧 Contact

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LUKE BECK KREIDER Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies Luke studies religion and environmental ethics, with particular attention to Christian environmental thought in the climate change era. His dissertation engages multiple connections between environmental change and violence as emerging problems for religious ethics and for Christian environmental and political thought.📧 Contact

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KEVIN STEWART ROSE Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies Kevin’s work examines environmentalism among American Protestants in the second half of the twentieth century. His dissertation focuses on the relationship between shifting formations of American capitalism in the 1970s and 80s and Protestant conceptions of religious agency in response to the environmental crises of those decades.📧Contact

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JEREMY SORGEN Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies Jeremy‘s research investigates strategies of environmental practice and social change. He is writing a “pragmatic ethics” that combines normative philosophy and the empirical social sciences to help scholars coordinate with policymakers and democratic publics on pressing environmental issues.📧Contact

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BLAIR WILNER Doctoral Student, Religious Studies & Graduate Coordinator, Environmental Humanities Blair’s research examines conceptions of the human and of nature in modern religious thought. His work focuses theological and literary imaginaries that conceive of human and other-than-human resistance to political and ecological domination. 📧Contact