Leah J. Wilds

Leah J. Wilds, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, has been in the department for eighteen years.  She received her B.A. in English literature in 1980 (University of Georgia) and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (Colorado State University) in 1984 and 1988, respectively. Colorado State was one of the first universities in the U.S. to develop a Political Science program that emphasized domestic and international natural resource policy. She also served for four years as a Policy Analyst for the National Ecology Research Center of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  She is currently Director of the department's Graduate Program.  She is also chair of the Faculty Senate.

Dr. Wilds' teaching and research agendas are reflective of her interest in natural resources issues. She teaches two of the Department's main environmental course offerings: Global Environmental Policy, and Environmental Policy. She also teaches numerous other policy courses. Her publications include a book on resolving U.S. Water resource disputes (Understanding Who Wins: Organizational Behavior and Environmental Politics, 1990); and numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on natural resource policy in the American West. Dr. Wilds completed an 8-month faculty leave in Perth, Western Australia in 1997. While there, she investigated the ongoing controversies surrounding native title to Australian land and water resources for aborigines. The report was published in Winter of 1997 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Current Research:

Dr. Wilds is currently working on a book on the negotiated settlement of water resource issues on the Truckee and Carson Rivers.

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Core Humanities Fall 2003

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