FACULTY & GLOBAL AFFILIATE SCHOLAR BIOGRAPHIES
CAITY CARMODY caity.carmody@wisconsin.gov
Caity Carmody serves as the technical coordinator and analyst on the State of Wisconsin’s Climate Pollution Reduction program (otherwise known as CPRG). In this role, she is designing decision making processes that have data, environmental justice, and human and environmental health at their heart. She works closely with teams of analysts, policy makers, researchers, and advocates to identify strategies that would reduce emissions and produce lasting positive change and to understand the associated benefits and disbenefits of those strategies. Caity is a two-time graduate of UWSP, obtaining a B.S. in Natural Resource Management in 2008
and another B.S. in Computer Information Systems – Application Development in 2022. She lives in Stevens Point with her husband, son, and cat. In her free time, Caity enjoys watching all things Bridgerton, playing table-top role-playing games and video games, and sitting outside in the sun listening to music or the sounds around her. DR. JOHN COLETTA jcoletta@uwsp.edu
Dr. W. John Coletta, Ph.D., is both professor emeritus of English and a Global Affiliate Scholar in the Educational Sustainability Doctoral Program at UW-Stevens Point. He was a past coordinator or co-coordinator of the Environmental Studies minor at UWSP for 20+ years. Professor Coletta is also a former vice president (2009) and president (2010) of the Semiotic Society of America, “semiotics” being the study of signs and codes in culture and nature; he currently serves on the editorial board of The American Journal of Semiotics (TAJS), and he has just accepted the position of Book Review Editor for TAJS.
With respect to the role that he might play on dissertation research committees, Professor Coletta is interested in Critical Realism (Roy Bhaskar), an interdisciplinary approach to qualitative research that embraces “methodological pluralism” and a commitment to understanding how system “structure” and individual “agency” are ontologically separate, such that complex, intractable-seeming, socio-economic systems and structures may be understood (once actually understood) to help release (not merely to constrain) individual agency—even the agency of those repressed by those very structures and who therefore may have internalized the stereotypes that such repressive structures require to make the separation of
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