Faculty Profile
Michael Beevers
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies (2011)
Contact Information
Kaufman Hall
717-254-8036
Bio
Dr. Beevers specializes in global environmental politics with an emphasis on the linkages between natural resources, security, conflict and peace. His work appears in numerous book chapters and journals including Global Governance, International Peacekeeping, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review and The Extractive Industries and Society, among others. His book, Natural Resource Governance and Peacebuilding in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia (Palgrave-MacMillan) was published in 2018. He has worked as a research associate at Princeton University and as a consultant for the United Nations Environment Programme and World Resources Institute. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger.
Education
- B.S., Western Illinois University, 1993
- M.S., M.P.A., University of Washington, 2004
- Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2011