Delia Byrnes, Allegheny College, USA
I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, where I teach courses on environmental justice and culture, power, and environment. I hold a PhD in English and my research focuses on the relationship between energy regimes and environmental justice in contemporary US literature and culture.
Jaye Johnson Thiel, University of Alabama, USA
I am an Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies at UA. My research explores the production of childhood in the Deep South (USA) and how those productions are entangled with the affective forces of neoliberalism.
Kate Cairns, Rutgers University, USA
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. My work brings a feminist perspective to the politics of childhood, with particular focus on how young people are positioned as the promise or threat of collective futures.
Elizabeth Boileau, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
I am an Assistant Professor in environmental and outdoor education and teach in a new undergraduate program called Childhood Nature Studies. My research explores children’s empathy with the more-than-human world in outdoor education settings.
Patty Born, Hamline University, USA
I'm the program director for Hamline's Master of Arts in Environmental Education, and co-director of our Environmental Studies program. My scholarly work is situated within ecojustice pedagogies, intersectional environmental education and I am particularly attuned to centering other-than-human/human connections and relations in early childhood settings.
Joshua Russell, Canisius College, USA
I am an associate professor and director of the Anthrozoology graduate program at Canisius College. My research bridges phenomenology, queer theory, childhood studies, animal studies, and environmental education, with a key focus on children’s experiences of animal deaths.
Smruthi Bala Kannan, University of Chicago, USA
I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago. I completed my doctoral work at the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. My current research explores how environmental and human health entangle in young people’s lived experiences and complex negotiations in postcolonial contexts.