Director: Dr. Kyle Harp-Rushing
Kyle Harp-Rushing is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of Environmental Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist whose work sits at the intersections between political economy, knowledge production, and the environment. Kyle’s completed research at an open science nonprofit think tank explored the roles of technology, care, and design in the aspirations of software developers and interdisciplinary researchers working to make science more collaborative and participatory, and more accessible. His current work builds on this interest in aspirational politics, broadly focusing on how activists build solidarity across eco-social movements; from environmental justice organizations working to reduce harms from the logistics industry in Southern California to global climate justice movements. Recently, he’s begun exploring the relationship between emotions and environments, and has supported student research on the complex relationships between human communities and the environment.