Bio: Dr. Anne-Marie Hanson is the Interim Associate Dean for the College of Health, Science and Technology and an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. She is also affiliated with the University of Illinois System’s Discovery Partners Institute. Her research focuses on gendered responsibility in pollution, environmental change, and marine ecosystem management, with an emphasis on environmental justice related to waste and plastic pollution. She explores these issues in the context of disaster recovery, WASH, climate change, marine debris, and urban development in coastal Mexico and the Caribbean.

Dr. Hanson also works on collaborative research promoting pollution prevention and environmental justice through freshwater art-science collaborations along Illinois waterways and in advancing circular economies and sustainable development in Illinois.

Select Publications:

• United Nations Environment Programme and Gender and Water Alliance (2022). Gender Mainstreaming in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Management: Principles, Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Nairobi.
• Buechler, S. and A.M. Hanson, eds. (2015) A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change. London: Routledge.
• Hanson, A.M. (2020) Feminist Futures in Latin American Geography. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19(1): 215-224.
• Hanson, A.M. (2017) Women’s activism linking plastic pollution to community health in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán. Gender and Development 25(2):221-234.
• Finn, J. and A.M. Hanson. (2017) Critical Geographies in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Geography 16(1):1-15.

Teaching: ENS 251 Introduction to Environmental Science, ENS 401 Environmental Justice: Science, Policy, and Activism, ENS 472 Urban Environments, ENS 475 Political Ecology Aka the Political Life of Trees, Trash and Turtles, ENS 476 Environmental Ethics, ENS 450 Undergraduate Capstone, ENS 552 Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities, ENS 571 Sustainable Development.