Graduate Fellows
ANYA GALLI
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology University of Maryland Anya Galli is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland—College Park, where she studies environmental sociology and social movements. Her research addresses environmental inequality and industrial pollution in the US, focusing on the socio-political determinants of disproportionate emissions in the coal-fired power industry. She is also a Fellow with the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland, where she researches environmental stewardship and civic participation. 
NANCY FALXA SONTI
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture University of Maryland Nancy Falxa Sonti is an Ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station. She is based at the Baltimore Field Station, where she works as an interdisciplinary researcher studying urban social-ecological systems. Nancy works to build collaboration between academics, community groups, and government agencies in order to support the research activities of the Baltimore Field Station. Her current research interests include evaluating and monitoring the health of urban forests by examining urban tree ecophysiology and processes of forest restoration and regeneration. She is also involved in research examining the motivations for engagement with urban green spaces such as community gardens and forest patches. Nancy has a Masters in Conservation Biology from Columbia University and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
JOSEPH MCCARTNEY WAGGLE
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology University of Maryland Joe McCartney Waggle is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His interests include the sociology of knowledge, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies (STS). He has studied the role of scientific consensus in policy making, as well as the role of scientific expertise in political debate. His dissertation critically analyzes the ways in which different political actors engage science and scientists in pursuit of their own political agendas in both the climate and energy policy arenas in the United States. 
AMANDA DEWEY
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology University of Maryland Amanda Dewey is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland – College Park and a Graduate Fellow at the Program for Society and the Environment. Her research interests include environmental stewardship, environmental attitudes and values, and human-wildlife relationships. 
WILLIAM YAGATICH
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology University of Maryland William Yagatich is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Maryland. Specializing in Theory and the Sociology of Space and Place, his current work examines the linkages between knowledge, power, and occupational social closure. More specifically, his current research project explores the appeal to professionalism and the consequences of collective efforts to establish control over specific areas of labor and knowledge. |
