Iain Boal PhD (History of Science), University of Cambridge, 1991. Research interests: environmental history, Luddism and resistance to modernization, the iconology of nature, low entropy technics, Kropotkin, 17th century science and medicine. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts

Gray Brechin PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Research interests: urban, environmental and art history focussing on environmental history, particularly the parallels between the decline of classical civilizations and present-day California; mining as conceptual model for all resource exploitation.

Jeff Kavanaugh PhD 2001 (Earth & Ocean Sciences), University of British Columbia. Research interests: environmental glaciology, glacier bed processes (hydrology and subglacial deformation), field measurements and instrumentation. Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Cuffey

Jessica Teisch PhD (Geography) UC Berkeley, 2001. Jessica Teisch's interests lie at the crossroads of intellectual and environmental history. She has explored energy use in nineteenth-century California and examined the idea of progress in the late nineteenth century as carried out by Californian engineers, who fanned out across the globe with blueprints for social and environmental change. Currently, she is a Kevin Starr Fellow in California Studies at the U.C. Humanities Research Institute and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography. Her work has appeared in Environmental History, Pacific Historical Review, and The Human Tradition in California.