Education & Opportunities
Anthropocene Working Group Mission & Members
The Anthropocene Working Group is an interdisciplinary network of researchers who conduct collaborative research, teaching, and outreach on the Anthropocene, a newly proposed geologic epoch representing the age in which human activities have induced shifts in the state and functioning of the Earth system that threaten environmental, social, and economic crises on global to local scales. Faculty in the working group represent the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, and the Patel College of Global Sustainability.
Members of Anthropocene Working Group:
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
David Himmelgreen, Professor & Chair
Zachary Caple, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar
Dillon Mahoney, Assistant Professor
Thomas Pluckhahn, Professor
Charles Stanish, Professor & Executive Director, IASCE
Andrea Vianello, Visiting Research Fellow
Diane Wallman, Assistant Professor
Christian Wells, Professor & Director USF Center for Brownfields Research
Nancy White, Professor
Linda Whiteford, Professor
Rebecca Zarger, Associate Professor/Graduate Director
Department of Communication
Fred Steier, Associate Professor
Department of English
Gurleen Gerwal, Associate Professor
Carl Herndl, Professor
Liz Kicak, Instructor & Director Humanities Institute
Jarod Rosello, Assistant Professor
Department of History
Michael Decker, Professor
Davide Tanasi, Assistant Professor
Humanities and Cultural Studies
Sara Dykins Callahan, Instructor
Amy Rust, Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
Valerie Harwood, Professor & Chair
Ryan Carney, Assistant Professor
David Lewis, Associate Professor
Earl McCoy, Professor
Lynn Martin, Associate Professor
Luanna Prevost, Assistant Professor
Christina Richards, Associate Professor & Director of Evolutionary Working Group, IASCE
Jason Rohr, Professor
Philosophy Department
Alex Levine, Professor & Chair
William Goodwin, Associate Professor
Trevor Hedberg, Postdoctoral Scholar
Martin Schönfeld, Professor
Eric Winsberg, Professor
Department of Sociology
Laurel Graham, Associate Professor/Associate Chair
Robert Benford, Professor
School of Geosciences
Mark Rains, Professor & Chair
Joni Downs, Associate Chair
Fenda Akiwumi, Associate Professor & Director, Institute on Black Life
Kamal Alsharif, Associate Professor
Martin Bosman, Associate Professor
Jason Gulley, Assistant Professor
Greg Herbert, Associate Professor/Director of Anthropocene Working Group, IASCE
Yujie Hu, Assistant Professor
Shawn Landry, Research Associate Professor/Director of USF Water Institute
Connie Mizak, Instructor
Bogdan Onac, Professor
Kai Rains, Research Associate Professor
Philip Van Beynen, Associate Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies
Kellan Anfinson, Postdoc
Peter Funke, Associate Professor
Cheryl Hall, Associate Professor
School of Public Affairs
Mark Hafen, Sr. Instructor/Graduate Program Assist. Director
Evangeline Linkous, Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Strom, Associate Professor
Department of World Languages
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor
Patrizia La Trecchia, Associate Professor
College of Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mauricio Arias, Assistant Professor
James Mihelcic, Professor
Maya Trotz, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
Yasin Yilmas, Assistant Professor
Honors College
Alan Bush, Instructor
Catherine Wilkins, Instructor
Muma College of Business
John Jermier, Professor
Patel College of Global Sustainability
Govindan Parayil, Dean
Thomas Culhane, Instructor
USF Tampa Library
Todd Chavez, Dean, USF Libraries
Meghan Cook, Coordinator of Library Operations
Travis Doering, Research Associate Professor, USF Library (DHHC)