Hallie Eakin

Hallie Eakin is a professor in the School of Sustainability and affiliated professor in the School of Urban Planning and Geographical Sciences. Professor Eakin's research interests include governance and social equity in socio-ecological systems (urban and rural), household vulnerability and sustainability of adaptations to global change, globalization and the institutional context of vulnerability and adaptation, rural development, sustainable food systems, agricultural change and food sovereignty and social-ecological resilience and integration of risk into urban and rural development planning. She joined ASU in 2008 from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She completed her postdoctoral fellowships at the U.S.-Mexican Studies Center, University of California-San Diego (2002) and the Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2003-2005).