Our People

Dr. Jeffrey Wall specializes in advancing ethnoecological methods and theories which bring the environmental values of distinct cultures and traditions into meaningful conversation with each other. He has focused on threatened culturally significant landscapes in numerous countries in the Near East, Central Asia and North America.   

Dr. Megan Youdelis specializes in the political ecology of conservation, with research experience in Canada and Thailand.  Her current work explores Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas as decolonial tools for reconciliation and land and water protection within broader colonial-capitalist contexts, and the extent to which international policy enables or constrains Indigenous-led conservation.