杰。特纳
威廉R. 小该. Professor of 环境研究
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Researcher on the recent history of U.S. 环境政治和政策, 包括气候变化, 清洁能源转型, 公共土地管理.
I have taught in the 环境研究 Program at 皇冠体育 since the fall of 2006. My training is in environmental history and environmental studies. I have also been active in sustainability initiatives at 韦尔斯利 and nearby communities, especially those pertaining to energy and climate change.
我最近的一本书， 带电: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future, unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving the battery problem is crucial to a clean energy transition. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, 电网现代化, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries—including mining, 处理, and more—does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? With new insight on questions of justice and sustainability, 带电 draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a clean energy future, 从头开始.
我之前的书包括 的 共和党的逆转: Conservatives and 环境 从尼克松到特朗普, co-authored with Drew Isenberg, and 的 Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964. 的se books explore the changing landscape of U.S. 环境政策, considering the historical evolution of conservation opposition to environmental reform and changes in debates over public lands protection. 在connection与 的 共和党的逆转，我开发了一个广泛的 教学 网站 with my students on conservatives and the environment.
My 教学 at 韦尔斯利 includes a range of courses in the 环境研究 部门. I teach an introductory course focused on issues and concepts important to environmental studies which is organized around climate change. I teach 200-level courses such as U.S. 环境的历史 and another course on 的 Future of Energy. I regularly teach two 300-level seminars: My U.S. Environmental Politics seminar examines the laws, 利益相关者, and 政治 and policy processes important to the federal environmental regulatory state through a series of contemporary case studies. My other 300-level seminar is a capstone course on public writing, during which students spend the semester reporting on environmental beats of their choosing. 可以看到他们的公开写作 在这里.
在韦尔斯利, I've enjoyed working with students on research projects pertaining to public lands politics, 公众对气候变化的关注, and the role of batteries in a clean energy transition. In 2017-2018, my students and I supported Solarize Natick, a community-solar initiative that resulted in more than 150 new rooftop solar installations in Natick, 麻萨诸塞州.
我得了B.S. from Washington and Lee University in 1995, an A.M. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1996, a Ph.D. in History (History of Science) from Princeton University in 2004, 和一张科学证书, 技术, and Environmental Policy from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 2005. My research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
教育
- B.S.他来自华盛顿和李大学
- A.M.布朗大学
- Ph.D.普林斯顿大学
当前和即将开设的课程
U.S. 环境的历史
ES299
This course examines the relationship between nature and society in American history. 的 course will consider topics such as the decimation of the bison, 芝加哥的崛起, 自然灾害的历史, and the environmental consequences of war. T在这里 are three goals for this course: First, we will examine how humans have interacted with nature over time and how nature, 反过来, 塑造了人类社会. 第二个, we will examine how attitudes toward nature have differed among peoples, 的地方, 和时间, and we will consider how the meanings people give to nature inform their cultural and 政治 activities. 第三, we will study how these historical forces have combined to shape the American landscape and the human and natural communities to which it is home. While this course focuses on the past, an important goal is to understand the ways in which history shapes how we understand and value the environment as we do today.
(ES 299 and HIST 299 are cross-listed courses.)-
碳税? 标记转基因作物? 禁用内分泌干扰物? 在本课程中, an interdisciplinary capstone experience for the ES major, we will engage with such questions and related environmental sustainability issues as public writers. Students will choose one environmental issue, which will be the focus of their environmental “beat” during the semester. 的y will draw on an interdisciplinary toolset from environmental studies to analyze and communicate the scientific, 经济, 政治, and ethical dimensions of pressing policy issues. Students will conduct independent research to produce weekly articles, 比如专栏, 博客文章, 新闻稿, 书评, 政策备忘录, and interviews with environmental professionals. Class sessions will be organized as writing workshops focused on the interdisciplinary analysis and content of student work.
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U.S. 环境的历史
ES299
This course examines the relationship between nature and society in American history. 的 course will consider topics such as the decimation of the bison, 芝加哥的崛起, 自然灾害的历史, and the environmental consequences of war. T在这里 are three goals for this course: First, we will examine how humans have interacted with nature over time and how nature, 反过来, 塑造了人类社会. 第二个, we will examine how attitudes toward nature have differed among peoples, 的地方, 和时间, and we will consider how the meanings people give to nature inform their cultural and 政治 activities. 第三, we will study how these historical forces have combined to shape the American landscape and the human and natural communities to which it is home. While this course focuses on the past, an important goal is to understand the ways in which history shapes how we understand and value the environment as we do today. (ES 299 and HIST 299 are cross-listed courses.)