Joan Maloof
Joan Maloof is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology. She is a writer, ecologist, and conservationist with a unique voice in today’s times. Maloof founded and directs an organization with the goal of creating a network of protected forests across the US. That organization, the , now has thousands of supporters. Maloof travels widely to educate others regarding the extent and condition of our forests, and to encourage their preservation.
Maloof has studied and worked with plants her entire life; her formal education includes a B.S. in Plant Science, a M.S. in Environmental Science, and a Ph.D. in Ecology. She has four published books: The Living Forest (2017); Nature’s Temples (2016); Among the Ancients (2011) and Teaching the Trees (2005). Maloof has also published in numerous journals such as Ecology and The American Journal of Botany. For more on Joan's current activities, visit .
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James Hatley
James Hatley is a professor of Environmental Studies. His areas of expertise include 20th century continental philosophy, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of the arts. He was awarded Salisbury University’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 1998 and has won numerous awards for his sculpture and photography artwork. Hatley is the author of more than twenty articles and a monograph, Suffering Witness: the Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable (SUNY Press, 2000). He also edited Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty (Duquesne University Press, 2006) and Faces of Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought (Duquesne University Press, 2012). He guest edited The Journal of Environmental Philosophy in the fall of 2008, with a special issue entitled: “Species of Thought—In the Approach of a More-than-human World.”
He is on the executive committee of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and hosted their 2010 conference here at SU. Hatley has team taught with almost all environmental studies faculty at 成人抖阴and published on interdisciplinary environmental studies pedagogy. He took a group of students on a study abroad program to Japan in January 2011 and January 2013, studying environmental spirituality while walking a sacred pilgrimage route through the mountains.
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