I joined MSU’s Department of Fisheries & Wildlife and School of Criminal Justice in January 2008. My formal training is in the human dimensions of wildlife management, and environment and resource policy. My research interests focus on public perceptions of wildlife and environmental risk, human-wildlife conflict, community-based natural resource management, human dimensions of natural resource management, conservation criminology, and program evaluation. I am a member of the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP), serve as core faculty with the Center for Advanced International Development (CASID), am affiliated with the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen), and collaborate with scholars in the MSU Risk Research Initiative and Office of Study Abroad. I am core faculty with the Conservation Criminology certificate program, offered jointly by the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife and School of Criminal Justice. Along with scholars from across North America, I am a member of the Conservation Ethics Group.