Leah Wilds

Leah Wilds has served as chair of the faculty senate and of the political science department. A specialist in natural resource issues, she received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Georgia (1980) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (1984, 1988) from Colorado State University in one of the first political science programs to offer a specialty in domestic and international natural resource policy. Her faculty appointment at the University of Nevada followed four years as a Policy Analyst for the National Ecology Research Center of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her teaching specialties are global environmental policy and environmental politics, and in 1998 she was awarded the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award. She is currently engaged in research involving Aboriginal land and water rights in contemporary Australia.

Leah Wilds
Leah Wilds has served as chair of the faculty senate and of the political science department. A specialist in natural resource issues, she received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Georgia (1980) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (1984, 1988) from Colorado State University in one of the first political science programs to offer a specialty in domestic and international natural resource policy. Her faculty appointment at the University of Nevada followed four years as a Policy Analyst for the National Ecology Research Center of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her teaching specialties are global environmental policy and environmental politics, and in 1998 she was awarded the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award. She is currently engaged in research involving Aboriginal land and water rights in contemporary Australia.
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