space, place and environment
Current faculty research involves the study of political, human and historical ecology (Wilke, Fedick, Fay, Patterson); tourism and globalization (Ness, Sutherland, Schwenkel); land and sovereignty (Fay, McMullin); land use and resources (Fedick, Fay); landscape, spatial organization, and memory (Ness, Schwenkel, Ashmore, Ossman); landscape and settlement (Fedick, Ashmore, Fay, Patterson); agriculture and agricultural symbolism (Taube, Fedick, Fay, McMullin); conservation, sustainability, and environmentalism (Fay, Ness, Moses, Fedick).