Description / Biography

Greg Koutnik enjoys cultivating open, engaged, and critical discussions in his courses to help students develop a deeper understanding of their own political perspectives as well as those of others.

In the spring, Greg will teach his introductory course in political theory and a new seminar on ideas of home and belonging in environmental politics. He will also co-teach the senior seminar in political science with his colleague Beth Dougherty. 

Greg’s research focuses on environmental political theory and U.S. political thought with an eye to questions of environmental stewardship and ecological belonging. His research focuses especially on conservationist and agrarian environmentalists like Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry, questions of scale and place in environmentalism, the possibilities of ecological populism, the relationship between conservatism and environmentalism, and the idea of home in environmental political thought.