Staff
CSE Staff:
Trisha Franzen
Interim Director of CSE
B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo
M.A., University of New Mexico
Ph.D., University of New MexicoOffice: Robinson Hall 201A
Email: tfranzen@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0535
Monica Day
Director of the Whitehouse Nature Center
Executive Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment
Email: mday@albion.edu
Phone: 517-629-0582
CSE Internal Advisory Committee:
Joseph Lee-Cullin
Assistant Professor
A.A., Kirkwood Community College, 2009; B.S., University of Iowa, 2012; M.S., University of Iowa, 2014; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2020. At Albion since 2020.
Dr. Lee-Cullin teaches upper-level courses in Groundwater, Geomorphology, Regional Field Geology, and Field Camp.
Office: Palenske 122
Email: jleecullin@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0574
Trisha Franzen
Co-chair and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo
M.A., University of New Mexico
Ph.D., University of New MexicoOffice: Robinson Hall 201A
Email: tfranzen@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0535
Dr. Allison Harnish
Associate Professor
“Alli” is a cultural anthropologist specializing in rural livelihoods, international development, and human-environment relations. She earned a Ph.D. in anthropology as well as a graduate certificate in gender and women’s studies from the University of Kentucky after completing a B.A. in anthropology and sociology at Western Kentucky University. Prior to coming to Albion, Alli was a part-time instructor at Transylvania University and co-organizer of the annual Dimensions of Political Ecology (DoPE) Conference on Nature/Society in Lexington, KY. Her teaching integrates economic, ecological, and feminist anthropology. Her research, which has been externally supported by the Fulbright program and the National Science Foundation, explores the gender and age dimensions of development-induced migration, environmental change, and wildlife management in Zambia. Alli teaches Native North America, Africa: Peoples and Cultures, The Global Politics of Nature, Violent Environments, and Theory and Method in Anthropology.
Email: aharnish@albion.edu
Sheila Lyons-Sobaski
Department Chair, Professor
Office: Putnam 264
Email: slyons@albion.edu
Phone: 517-629-0649
Nels Christensen
Associate Professor
B.A., California State University
M.A. & Ph.D. Michigan State UniversityResearch and Writing: Ecocriticism, Ecopedagogy, and Environmental Creative Non-Fiction.
Publications: Learning Where the Weather Is Real: Why Teaching in Bad Weather Is Good. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Facing the Weather in James Galvin’s The Meadow and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 21:1 (Winter 2014), Leaving a Trace Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture, The Art of Stillness Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Way You Do It Sports Afield.
Courses: Composition, The Idea of Nature and the Nature of Ideas, Writing in Place, Terrorists and Treehuggers, Black Environmentalism.
Email: nchristensen@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0349
Sustainability Council:
The Sustainability Council is a college-wide committee representing a wide range of interest groups. The council promotes sustainability, resiliency, and environmental justice within the College and in relation to the broader Albion community.
Thomas I. Wilch
Professor in the Earth & Environment Department
B.A., Macalester College, 1987; M.S., University of Maine, 1991; Ph.D., New Mexico Tech, 1997. At Albion since 1998.
Dr. Wilch teaches upper-level courses in Glaciers and Climate Change, Geomorphology, Volcanology, Regional Field Geology, and Field Camp.
Office: Palenske Hall 026
Email: twilch@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0759
Dr. Allison Harnish
Associate Professor
“Alli” is a cultural anthropologist specializing in rural livelihoods, international development, and human-environment relations. She earned a Ph.D. in anthropology as well as a graduate certificate in gender and women’s studies from the University of Kentucky after completing a B.A. in anthropology and sociology at Western Kentucky University. Prior to coming to Albion, Alli was a part-time instructor at Transylvania University and co-organizer of the annual Dimensions of Political Ecology (DoPE) Conference on Nature/Society in Lexington, KY. Her teaching integrates economic, ecological, and feminist anthropology. Her research, which has been externally supported by the Fulbright program and the National Science Foundation, explores the gender and age dimensions of development-induced migration, environmental change, and wildlife management in Zambia. Alli teaches Native North America, Africa: Peoples and Cultures, The Global Politics of Nature, Violent Environments, and Theory and Method in Anthropology.
Email: aharnish@albion.edu
Sheila Lyons-Sobaski
Department Chair, Professor
Office: Putnam 264
Email: slyons@albion.edu
Phone: 517-629-0649