Dr. Emily Wakild is a professor of history, program director for Environmental Studies in the School of Public Service, and the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and has a B.A. in History and Politics from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Her research interests include the social and environmental history of revolution in Latin America, the comparative history of conservation, and cultural understandings of climate history. She has taught courses or studied in Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, and spent three years teaching middle school through the Teach for America program in deep South Texas.