Brown U: environmental health and environmental justice
Kindly forward to potentially interested people. We are recruiting Master's students to work with Phil Brown, Kathryn DeMaster, and Timmons Roberts starting in Fall, 2010. Applications need to be in by January 2 to be considered for financial aid.
Professor Phil Brown will recruit one or two students to work on environmental health and environmental justice projects: developing and testing ethical, effective, and practical methods for reporting individual exposure results to participants in biomonitoring and household exposure studies; studying how four existing research projects provide individual results to study participants; science and policy interfaces for the proliferation of flame retardants; regulatory, policy, industry, scientific, and legal implications of chemical biomonitoring research, as carried out by national-level population surveillance, state-based biomonitoring programs, advocacy biomonitoring, and community-based studies; ethical issues in xenotransplantation of human fetal tissues into rodents, to study how environmental stressors alter pathways and dose-response relationships, and produce novel biomarkers of effect. Applicants should have experience in environmental health and justice and in community-based participatory research and/or community-engaged research.
Professor Kathryn DeMaster - In the next few years my research work will emphasize three primary areas: local and regional sustainable agricultural movements and food justice and food security in Providence, RI specifically and New England generally; investigations into the environmental and social impacts of containment animal feeding operations (CAFOS) run by multinational conglomerate Smithfield Farms in Poland, North Carolina, and Mexico; and exploring the application of European agri-environmental policies into the New England regional context. I would be keen to work with any students who have interests in the intersection of agriculture and the environment and would especially welcome collaborations with students who are interested in conducting qualitative research on food justice in the Providence, RI area.
Professor Timmons Roberts is looking to work with 1-2 new Master's students in 2010 to work on projects that link to issues of climate change and international development, especially the role of foreign assistance in helping poor nations adapt, and the linking of ecological debt and global justice. He has new projects on education about adaptation to climate change in Latin America, West Africa, and Rhode Island, and a project on what social factors explain which nations are most able to adapt to climate change, and reduce their emissions.
The Masters of Arts in Environmental Studies at Brown is a practical degree, designed to help students understand emerging environmental problems and to strengthen their competence in managing them.
Environmental problems are complex and interconnected; our institutions and governments as they are currently organized are largely unable to manage them. Students learn to speak the languages of science and policy, to understand the different vantage points of each, and to integrate them. Rather than beginning with traditional disciplines and searching for their application to environmental problems, we instead focus on the problems of decision and action, learning how to draw information from the disciplines that bear on these decisions.
Coursework: The program consists of four core courses, four carefully- chosen electives, experience as a teaching assistant, and a Master's thesis. Requirements for the Master of Arts degree are described on our website at: http://envstudies.brown.edu
The Master's Thesis:The Master of Arts program in Environmental Studies requires successful completion of a Master's thesis, the presentation of thesis results at a departmental seminar and an oral defense of the thesis. The master's thesis is the keystone and the integrative culmination of our program.
Program Information: the full list of faculty and their research interests are at http://envstudies.brown.edu and there are details about Master's program requirements and admissions at http://envstudies.brown.edu/academics/masters.html
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J. Timmons Roberts
timmons@brown.edu
Director, Center for Environmental Studies Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies Brown University
135 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3449
http://envstudies.brown.edu/
skype: timmonsroberts
Project-Level Aid (PLAID) project website:
http://www.wm.edu/irtheoryandpractice/plaid
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