Harris, Glenn

Glenn R. Harris is Professor and Culpepper Teaching Fellow. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, a Masters degree in environmental science from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University.

Glenn teaches courses on the health effects of pollution, land-use planning, and foundation of environmental thought. He also teaches Seeing History: Reading the Natural and Cultural Landscape, an entirely field-based course that has been highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a major publication of trends in university education. Glenn’s research specialities are environmental history, land-use planning, and environmental policy. He is the author of over fifty scholarly papers, as well as twenty-five technical and community service reports, many co-authored with students.

He has received the SLU Piskor Faculty Lectureship, the Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Member Award and the J. Calvin Keene Faculty Award, given annually to a faculty member for “high standards of personal scholarship, effective teaching, and moral conscience.”

A member of numerous professional and community organizations, Dr. Harris takes particular interest in the Adirondack Park and the St. Lawrence River Valley. Phone number: (315) 229-5136, Email: gharris@stlawu.edu

Johns, Carolyn

Carolyn E. Johns is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. She received a B.S. from Colby College and a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Montana. Dr. Johns teaches courses in air and water pollution, sustainable agriculture, and environmental backlash. Her research focuses on the uptake of heavy metals by bivalves in freshwater ecosystems. Most of her work takes place in the St. Lawrence River, and has received international acclaim for its originality and significance. She presents this work annually at meetings of the Society for Ecological Toxicology and Contamination and has published it in major scientific journals on the Great Lakes. Phone number: (315) 229-5840, E-mail: cjohns@stlawu.edu

Rosales, Jon

Assistant professor of Environmental Studies

Phone: (315) 229-5852

Email: jrosales@stlawu.edu

Jon was born in Ecuador to American parents thus imprinting an international perspective on him since infancy. He is also an outdoor enthusiast. Taken together, his background and personal interests manifest themselves in his professional area of study - international environmental policy. His programs of research focus on United Nations climate change policy, contaminants in the Arctic, and old-growth forest conservation. He also teaches classes in these fields.

Jon has held many interesting and varied positions as a ski and fitness instructor, greenskeeper, chauffeur, tour bus greeter, and slimer in a fish canning factory in Alaska. His eclectic background informs his often unique interpretation of liberal arts education.

Schwartz, Alan (Emeritus)

Alan M. Schwartz is a Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Teaching interests included introduction to environmental studies, energy policy and the environment, Canada/U.S. environmental issues, and research seminars focusing on the greening of the college campus. Current research interests focus on issues of conflict in the Canada/U.S. environmental relationship and mechanisms for their resolution. He has received support for this work through grants from the Canadian Embassy. In the last several years he has presented papers on this subject at conferences in Italy, Ireland, Iceland and the U.S. and has traveled to Washington, D.C. to brief the new ambassador to Canada. He has been the recipient of the Maslow Award, given to the faculty member who has shown “the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student body as a whole.”  Email: aschwartz@stlawu.edu