Chaia Heller and Peter Staudenmaier

Chaia Heller has taught at the Institute for Social Ecology for over thirty years. She is the author of Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops and Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature. Heller has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and taught food politics and gender studies at Mount Holyoke College. Peter Staudenmaier teaches modern European history at Marquette University and is a long-time faculty member at the Institute for Social Ecology. He is the co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience and, most recently, the author of Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right.