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Effective July 1, 2009, Timmons Roberts will be the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies and Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. He taught at the College of William and Mary and directed its Program in Environmental Science and Policy six of the last eight years (2001-2009), and he held a joint appointment in Latin American Studies and Sociology and co-directed the Environmental Studies program at Tulane University (1991-2001). He was a James Martin 21st Century Professor at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute in 2006-2007, and a Research Fellow at William and Mary's Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations in 2008-2009. His 1992 Ph.D. was from Johns Hopkins University in Sociology's Program in Comparative International Development. His B.A. was in Biology (with research in tropical and temperate ecology) from Kenyon College.

Timmons' interests in environmental science and policy are broad. His main current research concerns global inequality and climate change (in who is suffering most, who caused the problem, and who is taking action), and the role of foreign aid in addressing climate justice matters. His other work concerns both the political economy and the social psychology of environmental issues. Survey and case study work with workers, residents, and students has concerned perceptions of the environment and people's behaviors, and what might be needed to move us towards more environmentally sustainable action. Professor Roberts has worked for many years with students on greening initiatives and with community groups on issues such as environmental justice, sprawl, pedestrian accessibility, recycling. brownfields, and fear of exposures to hazards on the job and at home. He teaches environmental sociology, globalization and the environment, and practicum group workshop courses on environmental policy issues.

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