Clanahan is an Assistant Director of Graduate Programs. He manages all graduate administrative duties including academic and career advising, admissions, funding, program logistics, alumni relations, and accreditation.

Ame's interests include social and environmental justice, sustainable development, socioecological systems, power, values, and trauma and how they relate to collective environmental governance.

Andrea Rissing's research uses diverse qualitative methods to explore US agriculture in a global context. Foci include innerworkings of sustainable food systems, agrarian change, and farmland and livelihood equity.

Ryan Williams is an archaeologist, museum curator, and professor. With deep interests in the South American Andes, he studies climate change in the human past, as well as economic and political interactions in communities.