Susan Senecah
Professor
(on leave until January 2010)
109 Marshall Hall
Phone: (315) 470-6570
Fax: (315) 470-6915
Email: ssenecah@esf.edu
Recipient, President's Award for Excellence in Public Service, ESF, 1999, 2005
- Affiliate, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University
- Affiliate, Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute, SUNY-ESF
Education:
- Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 1992
- M.A., Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, 1987
- B.S., Secondary Teaching (English, Speech, Outdoor Recreation), Bemidji State University, Minnesota, 1972
Research interests:
- Communication aspects of public participation in the formation of environmental public policy/decisions, especially the origins, dynamics, persuasive strategies, and tactics of environmental campaigns
- Legislative process, environmental public policy
- Conflict and alternative dispute resolution, consensus building processes
- Grassroots leadership
- Social construction of nature
- Ecotourism
- The history, evolution, philosophies, organizations, and current of U.S. and global environmental movements
Selected Publications:
- Senecah, S. 2007. "Impetus, Mission, and Future of the Environmental Communication Commission/ Division: Are We Still on Track? Were We Ever?" Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 1(1):5-20.
- Walker, G., S. Senecah, and S. Daniels. 2006. "From the Forest to the River: Citizens' Views of Stakeholder Engagement," Human Ecology Review 13(2):193-202. [PDF]
- Senecah, S., ed. 2005. The Environmental Communication Yearbook, Vol. II. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Senecah, S., ed. 2004. The Environmental Communication Yearbook, Vol. I. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Senecah, S. 2004. "The Trinity of Voice: The Role of Practical Theory in Planning and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Participatory Processes." Pp. 13-33 in Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making, eds. Stephen P. Depoe, John W. Delicath, and Marie-France Aepli Elsenbeer. Albany: State University of New York Press. [PDF]
- Senecah, S., ed. 2004. Environmental Dispute Resolution for the 21st Century. Sector on Environmental Public Policy, Association of Conflict Resolution.
- Senecah, S., co-editor. 2003. The MacMillan Encyclopedia on Pollution. 3 vols. The Gale Group.
- Cantrill, J., and S. Senecah. 2001. "Using the 'Sense of Self-in-Place' Construct in the Context of Environmental Policy-Making and Landscape Planning," Environmental Science and Policy 4(Fall):185-203. [PDF]
- Senecah, S. 2000. "Current Issues in the Field of Environmental Mediation," Mediation Quarterly 17(4):391-408.
- Senecah, S. 1996. "Forever Wild or Forever in Battle: Metaphors of Empowerment in the Continuing Controversy over the Adirondacks." Pp. 95-118 in Earthtalk: Communication Empowerment for Environmental Action, eds. Star A. Muir and Thomas L. Veenendall. Westport, CT: Praeger. [PDF]
Courses:
- EST 361/696 - History of the American Environmental Movement
- EST 605 - Qualitative Research Methods
- EST 608 - Environmental Advocacy Campaigns and Conflict Reslolution