After three years of being my department’s Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Head, I’m stepping back entirely into research and teaching to dig into my new agenda. I’ve studied and taught environmental and natural resource economics for 20 years, but always with the standard economic goals of efficiency and cost effectiveness in mind. Now I’m interested in bringing my work to bear on problems of inequality. For now that means:

1. New research estimating how preferences over environmental goods vary among racial and socio-economics groups. Bluntly put, does conservation (the way we do it now) disproportionately benefit white people?
2. Developing a new undergraduate class, working title of “Economics of Race and Food in America.

Exciting times ahead.