Mark Carper, Assistant Professor of Geography/Environmental Studies, afmdc@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Carper's interests include international political economy; processes and effects of globalization; international environmental issues; resource management; interrelationship between society, technology and the environment; social theory and geography; gendered perspectives in geography; and issues of language, ethnicity and identity in the Slavic world. His regional focus has been on Russia and Eastern Europe, with a thematic concentration on socioeconomic transition and with a focus on his adopted territory for research, Bulgaria. These pursuits have encompassed area studies, language training, and travel.
BA Philosophy OK State U (1990); MS Geog OSU (1998); Ph. D. U of Kansas Geog (2004) He was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship (2002-2003) for dissertation research (Household energy management strategies in Bulgaria's transitioning energy sector), AND served as an exchange student at Lund University, Sweden (1997) and participated in Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) Summer Program in Environmental Case Studies in Kosice, Slovak Republic; July 1997.
At the University of Alaska Anchorage he teaches introductory world regional and physical courses as well as People, Places, and Ecosystems; Political Geography; The Slavic World; and Field Studies in Geography: A Balkan Inquisition: Contemporary Geography and Development of the Balkan Peninsula
Areas of expertise: International environmental issues, political economy & globalization, Eastern Europe, the Balkans.
Courses regularly taught: GEOG/INTL A101, ENVI/GEOG A211, GEOG A325, GEOG A327, GEOG A343, GEOG A390, LSSS A311
Steve Colt, Associate Professor of Economics, afsgc@uaa.alaska.edu
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 . BA,
Economics, Williams College, 1981
Steve Colt’s research focuses on energy economics, rural utilities, tourism and recreation, and Alaska Native corporations. Dr. Colt also directs UAA’s environmental studies program, as well as teaching environmental studies, resource economics, and environmental economics and policy.
Areas of expertise: Environmental economics and policy
Courses regularly taught: ENVI A212, ENVI/ECON A210
Shannon Donovan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Resilience Social Scientist in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department, afsmd@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Donovan received her B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire, her M.S. in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources from West Virginia University and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho (UI). At UI, she served as a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Traineeship (IGERT) fellow working on two interdisciplinary projects designed to craft conservation strategies for the Volcánica Central de Talamanca Biological Corridor of Costa Rica and the Palouse region of the Inland Northwest. Shannon also has extensive experience facilitating collaborative groups, running community meetings, leading focus groups and designing a variety of qualitative and quantitative survey instruments. Her primary areas of expertise include sense of place, bioregional planning and resource conservation. Shannon loves the outdoors, meeting new people, good food and fun travel!
Shannon will regularly teach ENVI A211, ENVI A212 and ENVI A470.
Dorn Van Dommelen, Professor of Geography, Chair of Geography and Environmental Studies, afdv@uaa.alaska.edu
PhD University of Toronto
Dr. Van Dommelen teaches GEOG/INTL 101: Local Places/Global Regions, Earth Systems (ENVI/GEOG 211), several upper-division courses in historical geography and regional geography, and INTL 315: Canada: Nation and Identity for UAA's International Studies Program. Service-learning is increasingly important to him, especially his work with Heifer International. He is interested in settlement history, agricultural development, and the environment. Dorn's extra-curricular interests include hiking, skiing, brewing, baking, gardening and, most especially, working and playing with his family at home.
Courses regularly taught: GEOG/HIST A101, GEOG/HIST A345, GEOG/HIST A415, GEOG A443, GEOG/ENVI A211, INTL A315, GEOG A390
Teaching Associates
Lilian Alessa, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, afla@uaa.alaska.edu
University of British Columbia, BSc (1990), Ph.D (1997)
Areas of expertise: Human environment interactions and social-ecological complexity; agent based model architecture; water resources and society.
Courses regularly taught: GEOG/ENVI A211
Raymond Anthony, Assistant Professor, RANTHON1@uaa.alaska.edu
Purdue University, Ph.D
Dr. Anthony is interested in environmental, food, animal and agricultural ethics. He also specializes in Philosophy of Technology, in particular issues dealing with social justice, participatory democarcy, future generations and responsible citizenship. He continues to explore concerns in ethical theory, especially debates surrounding the status of quasi-realism as it relates to moral explanation.
Besides travel and food, Dr. Anthony enjoys the company of good friends and good music.
Areas of expertise: Ethical Theory, Animal, Enviornmental and Food Ethics, Philosophy of Technology
Current University Activities: Faculty Associate for Sustainability; Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability; Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Club.
Courses regularly taught: ENVI/PHIL A303
Jacqueline Cason, Assistant Professor of English, afjec1@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Cason received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where her dissertation examined history of science essays by Loren Eiseley. Dr. Cason is a UAA Technology Fellow and is currently developing a web-text on composing controversy with a radio broadcast.
Research interests: The rhetoric of science in professional and public contexts, landscape writing, Canadian nonfiction writing, multimedia forms of the essay, and digital literacies in first-year composition.
Courses taught: The evolution of the essay genre, nonfiction prose, public science writing, technical and scientific writing, first-year composition, persuasive writing, and advanced composition.
Ron Crawford, Professor Emeritus, History/Geography
Education: UCLA – B.A. History/Geography 1971, UCLA – M.A./Lifetime Secondary Teaching Credential History/Geography 1972
Hired at Anchorage Community College in 1972; retired University of Alaska Anchorage 2002. Served as chair of history/geography department 1987-retirement.
Currently teach adjunct at UAA Chugiak/Eagle River, MatSu College, and UAA Military Extensions.
Honors and stuff:
- Alaska State Legislature Distinguished Teaching Citation 1992 and 2002
- National Council of Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award in Higher Education 1992
- UAA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award 2002
- Member – National Geography Praxis Advisory Committee, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
- Enrichment lecturer/naturalist – Royal Caribbean International Cruises – Alaska 2002 to present.
Interests: Travel, films, teacher education
Nelta M. Edwards, Assistant Professor of Sosiology, afnme@uaa.alaska.edu
A sociologist, Dr. Edwards teaches introduction to sociology, social stratification, environmental sociology, applied social statistics and is developing a course called sociology of the north. Dr. Edwards’s research has focused on environmental justice, particularly the role of scientific knowledge in environmental disputes and the efficacy of community participation in public hearings.
Andrew Kliskey, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, afadk@uaa.alaska.edu
University of. Otago, New Zealand, B.S. (1986), M.S. (1988), PhD (1992)
Area of expertise: Landscape ecology, human ecology, geographic information systems, behavioral geography.
Courses regularly taught: ENVI A470
LeeAnn Munk, Associate Professor of Geology, Chair of Geology Department, aflm@uaa.alaska.edu
Dr. Munk received her B.S. in Geology from St. Norbert College in DePere,Wisconsin in 1991. In 1995 she completed a M.S. degree in Geology at Michigan State University under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Vogel and in 2001 she received her PhD in Geological Sciences from The Ohio State University under the supervision of Dr. Gunter Faure. Dr. Munk’s M.S. thesis was on the petrogenesis of the Keetley Volcanics in Utah and her PhD dissertation dealt with a geochemical mass balance of areas affected by acid-mine drainage and natural acid-rock drainage in Summit County, Colorado. Dr. Munk also worked for Shell Oil and the Lunar and Planetary Institute before coming to the University of Alaska Anchorage where she currently is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences
Frank von Hippel, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, affvh@uaa.alaska.edu
Courses regularly taught: Evoluntionary Ecology, Conservation Biology.
