Dustin Mulvaney, Professor
Bio: I am a Professor of Environmental Studies at San José State University, one of the first six interdisciplinary environmental studies programs in the USA emerging out of the first Earth Day in 1970. My work focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of natural resources, land use change, and global production systems. My research focuses on questions about emerging technologies, socio-ecological change, and environmental justice. The areas of expertise I work on include solar energy commodity chains, some of which is synthesized in my book Solar Power, Innovation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice (University of California Press, 2019). I wrote the textbook Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization with Palgrave-MacMillan/Springer was published in December 2020. If your university is subscribed to SpringerLink, you may have access. My second textbook Energy, Society, and Environment will be released in 2025 with Wiley-Blackwell.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
NSF STS Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley
Ph.D., Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.S., Environmental Policy Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology
B.S., Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
From 2016 to 2017, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for American West at Stanford University.
Sustainable Energy Strategies Syllabus
Energy & the Environment Syllabus
Solar Energy Analysis Syllabus
The interdisciplinary research and policy communities I work with include scholars and practitioners of political ecology, science & technology studies, environmental studies, life cycle assessment, GIS, utility rate design, and energy transitions studies. I am a member of the American Association of Geographers and the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Before my Ph.D. training, I worked for a bioremediation startup as a project engineer at MTBE (a gasoline additive) spill sites, and before as a chemical process engineer for a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer in Linden, NJ and Willow Island, West Virginia. I've collaborated on projects with the Sierra Club, EarthJustice, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Defense Fund, Earthworks, the Green Electronics Council, Ocean Conservancy, Grand Canyon Trust, and the Nature Conservancy, and energy companies, and public agencies.
