Rebecca Johns
Associate Professor & Associate Chair
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Office: DAV 269
Phone: 727.873.4556
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Bio
Dr. Rebecca Johns is a native of California and an associate professor of geography. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in geography. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She is a past officer in the Florida Society of Geographers and the former Frank E. Duckwall Professor of Florida Studies. In 2022, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellow. Currently, Dr. Johns serves as the Associate Chair for Geosciences on the St. Petersburg campus. Dr. Johns鈥� recent publications focus on discursive analysis of narrative constructions of nature, environmental citizenship, more-than-human animals, and climate justice through educational exhibits at local and national parks and museums; local climate change impacts on socioeconomically vulnerable populations; and the development of a Thoreauvian pedagogy for the teaching of the human-nature relationship. In 2023, Dr. Johns won the College of Arts and Sciences award for excellence in Teaching in the Liberal Arts. Dr. Johns is currently writing a book on race, the social construction of nature and concepts of environmental citizenship from 1800 to 2000.