Faculty

Fall 2009 Instructors

Eugenia Victoria Ellis is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture + Interiors of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. A practicing architect who designs buildings “shaped by the sun,” such as the award-winning Florida Solar Energy Center, she has degrees in architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.Arch.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Ph.D.). She is a principal at BAU Architecture dedicated to sustaining, preserving, and cultivating the natural and built environment. At intersections of religion, nature, and culture, her research is in (eco)logical building technology, such as passive environmental design, daylighting and new lighting technologies, and natural ventilation. Dr. Ellis is a co-director of the university-wide Drexel Engineering Cities Initiative and the faculty advisor for the Drexel Smart House, a multidisciplinary student organization committed to researching and inventing alternative energy systems and smart technologies for residential living.

Christian Hunold (University of Pittsburgh, 1998) is an associate professor of political science in the Department of History and Politics. His teaching and research focuses on comparative politics and public policy in OECD countries, with special emphasis on environmental policy and technology policy. His work on citizen participation and democratic governance in environmental and energy policy has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Environmental Politics, German Politics and Society, Global Environmental Politics, Governance, and Political Studies. Dr. Hunold is a co-author of Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway (Oxford University Press, 2003). His current work examines the politics of urban agriculture in Philadelphia and the politics of solar energy in the American Southwest. Dr. Hunold is a co-editor for the political science journal Environmental Politics.

Susan Stein is an assistant professor of environment and communication in the Department of Culture and Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. She has a degrees in Zoology and Spanish (B.A.) and Mass Communication with an emphasis in energy analysis and policy (Ph.D) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Natural Resource Management (M.S.) from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. She was co-executive director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, an education and advocacy non-profit organization that addresses renewable energy and energy efficiency, and lived in two different off-grid, solar-powered houses in central Wisconsin. Dr. Stein was on the steering committee of the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program and trained teachers how to teach about energy. Her current research sits at the intersection of environment and communication and focuses on environmental behaviors, environmental literacy, environmental justice, and the environment in popular culture. She is the faculty advisor for the Drexel Sierra Club.