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Faculty & Staff
Dr. Derek Larson
Environmental Studies Department Chair
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and History
Office: New Science Center 118, Saint John’s University
Phone: (320) 363-3247
Degrees and Post Graduate Research/Study:
Ph.D. in History, Indiana University
M.A. in History, Indiana University
M.A. in Religion, Yale University
B.A. in History and Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College
Dr. Derek Larson began teaching at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in 1998. His academic and research interests include US environmental history, public lands, history of the Pacific Northwest, environmental thought, and popular culture/consumer behavior.
Troy Knight
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Office: New Science Center 116, Saint John's University
Phone: (320) 363-2007
Courses:
ENVR 150: Intro to Environmental Studies
ENVR 175: Integrated Environmental Science I
ENVR 215: Sustainability Workshop
ENVR 275: Integrated Environmental Science II
ENVR 300G: Science of Global Climate Change
Degrees and Post Graduate Research/Study:
Ph.D. in Progress (ABD) in Geography, University of Arizona
M.S. in Geography, Georgia State University
B.A. in Anthropology and History, University of Georgia
Troy Knight began teaching at CSB/SJU in the fall of 2009. His initial academic training was in archaeology where an interest in how past societies impacted their environments, and were in turn impacted by environmental change, was ignited. His current research efforts are focused on the role of climate in past (late Holocene) vegetation change in the American West. He specializes in dendrochronology, the study of tree-rings, to learn about our planet's recent natural history.
Dr. Jean Lavigne
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Office: New Science Center 114, Saint John's University
Phone: (320) 363-3994
Courses:
CORE 100 and 395
ENVR 150: Intro to Environmental Studies
ENVR 310: Environmental Geography
ENVR 311: Intro to Geographic Information Systems
ENVR 395: Senior Research Seminar
Degrees and Post Graduate Research/Study:
Ph.D. in Geography, University of Kentucky
M.S. in Geography, Pennsylvania State University
B.A. in Geography, Macalester College
Jean Lavigne started teaching at CSB/SJU in the fall of 2006. She has traveled extensively (especially in Asia), and as a geographer she is interested in the entire world. She spent fall semester of 2008 leading the CSB/SJU semester abroad in France. Her academic interests include the policy dimensions of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the politics of food, water resources, and environmental issues in Asia. She has two children who sometimes show up on campus, and a cat who stays at home. She is very happy to be here at CSB/SJU, where she finds her colleagues truly collegial and her students truly studious.
Diane Veale-Jones
Professor of Environmental Studies
Office: New Science Center 112, Saint John’s University
Phone: (320) 363-2844
Courses:
ENVR 150: Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENVR 225: Food, Gender and the Environment
ENVR 321: Sustainable Agriculture
ETHS 390: Poverty, Hunger and Ethical Issues
Degrees and Post Graduate Research/Study:
M.S. in Human Nutrition, Cornell University
Emphasis in international nutrition and community nutrition
Minor in Rural Sociology, emphasis on food and agriculture
B.A. in Dietetics, San Jose State University
Honors in Dietetics
Diane Veale Jones began teaching in the Nutrition Department in 1985. She transferred to the Environmental Studies Department in 2007. She is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Licensed Dietitian. Diane has a wide variety of interests and hobbies that include gardening, baking bread, cooking (especially ethnic foods), traveling (especially to food museums), and spending time with her children and grandchildren. Her academic interests include ethnic foodways, locally grown foods, food issues related to gender, farm to school initiatives, world hunger, and innovative environmental studies pedagogy.
Staff:
Department Coordinator
Assistant to the Chair
Office: New Science Center 104, Saint John's University
Phone: (320) 363-3163
Degrees:
B.A. in Chemistry and Environmental Studies, College of Saint Benedict
Jenny joined the Environmental Studies department and Saint John's Arboretum in 2008. She balances a variety of interests in creative local foods, baking, gardening, music and living gently and sustainably at her home in Grey Eagle.
Contributing Faculty:
Jeff Anderson, Peace Studies (Ph.D., The American University)
Richard Bresnahan, Art (B.A., Saint John’s University)
Gordon Brown, Biology (Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Matt Callahan, English (M.F.A., University of Alaska Anchorage)
Terry Check, Communications (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)
Larry Davis, Geology (Ph.D., Washington State University)
Ernie Diedrich, Economics (Ph.D., Colorado State University)
Bernadette Elhard, Nutrition (M.B.A., Saint Cloud State University)
Bernard Evans, Theology (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America)
William Lamberts, Biology (Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Matthew Lindstrom, Political Science (Ph.D. Northern Arizona University)
Rachel Melis, Art (M.F.A., University of Wisconsin)
Scott Murphy, Art (M.F.A., Arizona State University)
Jessica O'Reilly, Anthorpology (Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz)
Kristina Timmerman, Biology
Richard Wielkiewicz, Psychology (Ph.D., University of Hawaii)
Charles Wright, Philosophy (Ph.D., State University of New York—Stony Brook)