Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre
Prof. Adams teaches a course on Environmental Communication that explores the communication and conflict surrounding “the environment,” with a focus on the social construction of nature and critical/cultural approaches to environmental discourse.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Prof. Akinwole's research is goal is divided into three topical areas: the fundamental drivers of biodiversity and how these apply to microbial community, microbial biodiversity in human-dominated ecosystems (including agricultural practices) and the use of microbial community structure as a biomarker for assessing stream functional integrity to complement the benthic macroinvertebrate sampling.
Assistant Professor of Education Studies
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Prof. Brickell teaches courses including Introduction to Ceramics, Handmade and Homegrown: The Relationship Between Ceramics and Food and Community-Based Art Projects.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Prof. Cameron regularly teaches a first-year seminar titled Climate Change and Philosophy.
Professor of Biology
Prof. Dudle offers courses on Plant Evolutionary Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Science Writing.
Assistant Professor of Education Studies
Prof. Ford is an educational theorist interested in the relationship between pedagogy, politics, and social movements.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor of Communication and Theatre
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Prof. Holmes' research focuses on the intersections between the cultural production and direct action work of Chicana artists, activists and scholars and ecofeminist theory. Her teaching interests include transnational and Chicana/Latina feminisms, ecofeminism and environmental justice, gender and development, feminist methodology and qualitative research methods.
Professor of History
Prof. Kuecker's interests focus on contemporary history, especially the problem of how humanity will weather the perfect storm of multiple, large-scale, global, and concomitant crises, including climate change, thermodynamics (energy), food insecurity, demographic transformations (population growth and aging, and rapid urbanization) environmental/ecological degradation, and economic stress.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Prof. Miles teaches a course titled Sculpture: Sustainable Art Practices.
Professor of Art
Prof. O'Dell teaches a course titled Landscape Photography and Environmental Activism.
Professor of Modern Languages (German)
Prof. Pollack-Milgate teaches a course titled Grünes Deutschland: Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Kultur.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Professor Emeritus of Communication and Theatre
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
"In addition to teaching across the discipline, languages, mythology, Greek and Roman civilization, I been cultivating three areas of teaching interest at DePauw: classics and the environment, ancient aesthetics, and ancient ethics." Prof. Wells has taught a course, titled, Dig In! Foodways, Sustainable Agriculture, and Justice.
Ernest R. Smith Professor of Geosciences