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Dustin Mulvaney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sustainable Energy Resources
Department of Environmental Studies, San Jose State University

My research focuses on the intersection of innovation and environmental justice in the renewable energy space. As part of a broader project looking at the micro-political ecologies that constitute clean energy commodity chains, I focus on the ways that metrologies, institutions, and nature shape the deployment of solar energy, biofuels, an natural gas. This work was initially supported by a National Science Foundation Science, Technology, & Society Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley. For more on my research see the links above.

Bio: My overall work focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of energy and food systems. Before my appointment in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, I received my Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of Environmental Studies. My areas of specialization include political ecology, science & technology studies,and life cycle analysis. I am a member of the American Association of Geographers, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. I also participate in a group of academics known as alternative agrifood researchers without borders. Before graduate school I worked for a bioremediation startup as a project engineer on MTBE spills, and before that I was a chemical process engineer for a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer. I do consulting work with a team at:

My spare time is spent foraging fungi with Griffin the dog, growing vegetables above the fog, and playing various stringed instruments.

EDUCATION

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

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Green Society Series Reference Books, Dustin Mulvaney General Editor, Paul Robbins, Series Editor