Fellows: 2012 - 2013

Lori Gruen is Professor of Philosophy, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University where she also coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies.  Her work lies at the intersection of ethical theory and practice, with a particular focus on issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, non-human animals.  She has published extensively on topics in ecofeminist ethics, animal ethics, and environmental philosophy.  She is the author of two books on animal ethics, most recently Ethics and Animals:  An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011), the co-editor of four books, including the forthcoming second edition of Reflecting on Nature:  Readings in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (Oxford, 2012), and is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters.  She continues to work on her manuscript that explores the ethical and epistemological issues raised by human relations to captive chimpanzees. She is also working on two edited volumes, one on Ethics and Captivity the other on Food Sustainability and Justice.

Mary Alice Haddad is an Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.   Her publications include Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge 2007), Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge 2012), and articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Journal of Asian Studies, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.  She has received numerous grants and fellowships from organizations such as the Institute of International Education (Fulbright), the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and the East Asian Institute.  She is currently working on a project about environmental politics in East Asia.

William Johnston is Professor of History, East Asian Studies, and Science in Society at Wesleyan University.  His research has focused on the intersection of public health, cultural values, and economic and political forces.  He is the author of The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan and Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan, as well as numerous articles on the history of disease and medicine in Japan.  He is currently working on the history of cholera in Japan while also pursuing a project on mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

Dr. Michael Dorsey is Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies in the College of Environment. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (B.S. & Ph.D.), Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (M.F.S.) and The Johns Hopkins University (M.A.).  His articles have appeared in Nature; Carbon Market Europe; Journal of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA); Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and the Los Angeles Times. He has also authored numerous book chapters for edited volumes. His work focuses on global environmental governance, with particular attention to climate and biodiversity policy.  Other interests include understanding how theories underscoring political ecology, political-economy, and institutional and organizational behavior explain and inform myriad efforts to manage the environment and shape sustainable development.

Beyond the academy for more than two decades Dorsey has provided strategic guidance and advice to governments, foundations, firms and a multitude of others on the interplay of multilateral environment policy, finance and economic development matters.  In 1992, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit,”—led by President George H. W. Bush. From 1994-96 he was a task force member of President William Jefferson Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. A member of the Sierra Club since the mid-1980s, Michael served seven years (from 1997-2003; and from 2009-10) as a Director on the Club’s national board. From April 2007 until November 2008 Dr. Dorsey was a member of Senator Barack Obama’s energy and environment Presidential campaign team. In July 2010 Lisa Jackson, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) Administrator, appointed Dr. Dorsey to the EPA’s National Advisory Committee.