Lecturers

Emily Murai
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Lecturer
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Phone
    000-000-0000
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Nat Sci 2 Main Building, 459
  • Office Hours Not available Fall 2024
  • Mail Stop Environmental Studies
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High St
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Courses ENVS 100/L - Ecology and Society; ENVS 159 - Environmental Justice Literature; ENVS 173 - Global Environmental History; College Nine College 1/1A - Global and International Affairs; Writing 1 & 2 - Rhetoric and Inquiry; Stevenson, Porter & Kresge 26 - Navigating the Research University

Summary of Expertise

Critical Environmentalisms

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID)

First-Year Writing (FYW) and Student Success

Undergraduate students co-advised: 

Serena Campbell (SOCY/CRES '23), Building Belonging project, “Identifying Critical Environmental Work and Needs on Campus” and senior thesis, “’The University Needs to Listen’: Moving from mainstream to critical environmentalism at UCSC” -- Recipient of the Sociology of Race, Class and Gender Senior Thesis Award, Rachel Carson College’s Paul Niebanck Founder’s Prize and Social Science Dean’s Undergraduate Award

 

Kimberly Dare (ENVS '21), Building Belonging project, “Building Environmental Belonging: Racial Diversity and Inclusion among Undergraduates at UCSC” and senior thesis, “Propelling UCSC Undergraduates of Color in Environmental Studies through Mentorship” -- Winner of the 2022 AAG Gail Hobbes Undergraduate Student Paper Competition, recipient of Social Science Dean’s and Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award and funds from the College Nine Student Funds

 

Service: 

 

Diversity Chair, Environmental Rhetoric and Advocacy Special Interest Group, CCCC, Fall 2022-present

College Nine Core Course Coordinator, 2021-22

Diversity Committee, Environmental Studies, 2021-22

Grievance Steward, UC-AFT, 2020-22

College Nine/Ten Writing Program Liaison, 2018-19

Personnel Committee, Writing Program, 2017-2018 

Research Interests

Inclusive Environmentalism and Critical Sustainabilities

Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines

Care in the Academic Research Enterprise

Labor politics in higher education

Biography, Education and Training

Academic appointments:

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Lecturer, College Nine

Continuing Lecturer/Lecturer, Writing Program

Education:

Ph.D, Geography, University of Minnesota
M.A., Cultural Sociology, New School for Social Research
B.A., Psychology and American Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

Convening of Care Collective. (2024). Care in the Academic Research Enterprise: Reflections and a Call to Action from the Inaugural Convening of Care. https://doi.org/10.14433/2017.0169

Lu, F., Murai, E., Campbell, S. and Angelo, H. (2024). Building more epistemically inclusive and environmentally equitable universities. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 14, 511–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-024-00935-z

 

Lu, F. and Murai, E. (Eds.). (2023). Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30929-8