Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
My current research brings together the tools of life cycle analysis with multi-sited ethnography of global commodity chains to understand the intersection of innovation and environmental justice in the clean tech space. New financial and performance metrics are being deployed to assess the implications of emerging renewable energy technologies. This research unpacks and contextualizes those metrics in the context of their social and environmental dimensions. My overall work focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of energy and food systems. Before my appointment in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, I received my Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of Environmental Studies. My areas of specialization include political ecology, science & technology studies,and life cycle analysis. I am a member of the American Association of Geographers, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. I also participate in a group of academics known as alternative agrifood researchers without borders. Before graduate school I worked for a bioremediation startup as a project engineer on MTBE spills, and before that I was a chemical process engineer for a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer.
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About Dustin Mulvaney
My current research brings together the tools of life cycle analysis with multi-sited ethnography of global commodity chains to understand the intersection of innovation and environmental justice in the clean tech space. New financial and performance metrics are being deployed to assess the implications of emerging renewable energy technologies. This research unpacks and contextualizes those metrics in the context of their social and environmental dimensions. My overall work focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of energy and food systems. Before my appointment in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, I received my Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of Environmental Studies. My areas of specialization include political ecology, science & technology studies,and life cycle analysis. I am a member of the American Association of Geographers, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. I also participate in a group of academics known as alternative agrifood researchers without borders. Before graduate school I worked for a bioremediation startup as a project engineer on MTBE spills, and before that I was a chemical process engineer for a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer.
| 2015 - Present | Associate Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Environmental Studies | |
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| 2011 - 2015 | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Environmental Studies | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2017 | Environmental & Economic Benefits of Small Electric Vehicles with Focus on Electric Motorcycles |
| Mineta Transportation Institute | |
| $11,115 | |
| 2017 | Summer Salary Award |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $5,000 | |
| 2016 | Travel Grant |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $1,000 | |
| 2015 | Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant |
| Center for Faculty Development, SJSU | |
| $9,700 | |
| 2014 | Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant |
| Center for Faculty Development, SJSU | |
| $9,700 | |
| 2013 | Dean's Travel Grant |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $1,500 | |
| 2013 | Foundation Research Grant |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $2,000 | |
| 2013 | Water Resources and Policy Initiatives Faculty Research Incentives Award |
| Office of the Chancellor, California State University | |
| Water Resource Vulnerability and the Environmental Justice Dimensions of Developing the Monterey Shale | |
| $5,067 | |
| 2012 | College of Social Sciences Research Grant |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $1,500 | |
| 2012 | Environmental Innovation Grant with Earthworks to look at water footprint, land use change, and regulatory policies related to extracting fossil fuels from the Marcellus and Monterey Shale |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| $40,000 | |
| 2012 | Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant, Academic Affairs |
| San Jose State University | |
| $9,700 | |
| 2012 | Travel Grant |
| College of Social Sciences | |
| $750 | |
| 2010 | Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grant |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| Justice and Sustainability in the Solar Industry | |
| $20,000 | |
| 2009 | National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| National Science Foundation - SES-0924991 | |
| Innovation and Environmental Justice in the Clean Tech Space: Measuring Performance and Anticipating Risks of Renewable Energy Technologies | |
| $119,996 | |
| 2009 | Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grant |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| Justice and Sustainability in the Solar Industry | |
| $20,000 | |
| 2008 | Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grant |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| Justice and Sustainability in the Solar Industry | |
| $25,000 | |
| 2006 | Switzer Foundation Professional Development Grant |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| $600 | |
| 2006 | University of California, President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship |
| University of California | |
| $21,000 | |
| 2004 | Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Fellowship |
| Switzer Foundation | |
| $13,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2017 | Peer Reviewer, Climate and Development | 2017 | Peer Reviewer, Energy Research and Social Science | 2017 | External Evaluator, NASA, Center for Applied Atmospheric Research and Education | 2017 | Reviewer, North Carolina State Clean Energy Technology Center | 2017 | Peer Reviewer, Sustainability Science | 2016 - 2017 | Board of Advisors, Basin and Range Watch | 2015 - 2017 | Board of Directors, Sustainable Systems Research Foundation | 2014 - 2017 | Reviewer, Society and Natural Resources | 2014 - 2017 | Reviewer, University of California Press | 2013 - 2017 | Technical Advisory Committee, Waste Reduction Commission of Santa Clara County | 2016 | Reviewer, Czech National Science Foundation | 2016 | Reviewer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory | 2016 | Reviewer, Science, Technology and Human Values | 2016 | Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation | 2014 - 2016 | Reviewer, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 2010 - 2016 | Reviewer, U.S. National Science Foundation | 2013 - 2015 | Treasurer/Secretary, Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers | 2012 - 2014 | Council member, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers | 2012 - 2014 | Interviewer, Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grant Program | 2013 | Judge, Daniel B. Luten Award, American Association of Geographers |
Honors and Awards
- 2012, Daniel B. Luten Award for best paper on Energy and the Environment by a professional geographer from the American Association of Geographers Energy specialty group
- 2012, San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences, Author Award
- 1999–2001, Graduate Student Honor Society, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- 1997, New Jersey’s Top Young Chemist, NJ American Institute of Chemists
- 1996, Otto York Award, NJ American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Courses
- Master’s Thesis Research Design and Methods
- Advanced Topics in Environmental Studies
- Senior Research Seminar
- Solar Energy Analysis
- Master’s Thesis Research Proposals
- Sustainable Energy Strategies
- Energy & the Environment
| 2007 | Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz ‐ Environmental Studies | |
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| 2002 | M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology ‐ Environmental Policy Studies | |
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| 1999 | B.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology ‐ Chemical Engineering | |
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Links
Contact Information
Dustin Mulvaney, PhD
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Department
San José State University
408-924-5439
