Dr. Ryan Stock - Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences

Began teaching at NMU in 2019

ORCID: 0000-0002-6218-3725

Areas of Specialization

Energy Geography, Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Feminist Geography, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy, Social Justice

Education

• B.S., University of Utah
• M.S., University of Michigan
• Ph.D., University of Illinois

Courses Taught

• GC 101 - Introduction to Environmental Science [INTT]
• GC 205 - Introduction to Geographic Research
• GC 220 - Economic Geography
• GC 269 - Introduction to Sustainability
• GC 300 - Regional Studies: World Cultures: Geographies of South Asia
• GC 317 - Geography of Food Systems
• GC 424 - Environmental Justice
• GC/GN 444 - Gender and Environment

Current and Recent Faculty-Student Research Projects

• Daybreak wastescapes: solar frontiers between jugaad and ruin
• Decolonizing as sustainability: cultures of colonialism, circles, and care
• Left in the dark: systems analysis of environmental injustices from solar photovoltaics in India
• Volta photovoltaics: a feminist political ecology of solar development in Ghana

Current and Recent Community Projects

• Youth and family environmental events
• NMU Sustainable Food Plan
• Northern Climate Network
• Climate Action Resolution

About Dr. Stock

Ryan Stock is a broadly trained energy geographer and political ecologist with expertise in renewable energy transitions and climate change interventions from an intersectional and decolonial perspective. As director of the Illume Lab, he maintains a global research program and collaborates with many scholars and students worldwide, recently investigating the following: antiracist and abolitionist solar interventions (USA); environmental injustices of solar electronic waste (India); gendered livelihoods and food security in relation to solar development (Ghana); land and energy dispossessions for solar parks (India); climate justice and farmer vulnerability (India); biopolitics and racializing assemblages of precision agriculture (USA). He has methodological expertise in mixed methods field research with a strength in qualitative approaches. He also has a strong and consistent record of peer-reviewed publications, editorial experience, organizing and presenting at academic conferences and student mentorship on research projects.

Core to his personal and professional identity is a normative commitment to equity and sustainability, threaded through all his work in academia and the community. For his campus leadership on sustainability and diversity, he was awarded NMU’s prestigious Faculty Emerging Leadership Award. Ryan is Chair of the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Energy and Environment Specialty Group and is a member of the AAG JEDI Committee and the Climate Action Task Force. At NMU, he is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council and secretary of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Committee, among other service activities. Ryan is faculty mentor of various student groups and member of committees for Masters theses and PhD dissertations, McNair Scholars and Freshman Fellows. In the community, Ryan is a member of the Marquette County Climate Adaptation Task Force, as well as an environmental and social justice activist. Ryan is also a former Fulbright Scholar and Peace Corps volunteer.

Select Publications

For publications, please visit his Google Scholar profile.