Affiliated Faculty

Jennifer Adams, Ph.D.

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.

Philips Akinwole, Ph.D.

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.

Rebecca Alexander, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education Studies

Meredith Brickell, MFA

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.

Rich Cameron, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Prof. Cameron regularly teaches a first-year seminar titled Climate Change and Philosophy.

Dana Dudle, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Prof. Dudle offers courses on Plant Evolutionary Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Science Writing.

Derek Ford, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education Studies

Prof. Ford is an educational theorist interested in the relationship between pedagogy, politics, and social movements.

Justin Glessner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Leigh-Anne Goins, Ph.D.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Tim Good, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication and Theatre

Wade Hazel, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Biology

Christy Holmes, Ph.D.

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.

Glen Kuecker, Ph.D.

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.

Lydia Marshall, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Lori Miles, MFA

Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Prof. Miles teaches a course titled Sculpture: Sustainable Art Practices.

Cindy O'Dell, MFA

Professor of Art

Prof. O'Dell teaches a course titled Landscape Photography and Environmental Activism.

Howard Pollack-Milgate, Ph.D.

Professor of Modern Languages (German)

Prof. Pollack-Milgate teaches a course titled Grünes Deutschland: Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Kultur.

Clark Sage, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Steve Timm, MFA

Professor Emeritus of Communication and Theatre

James Wells, Ph.D.

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.