Michael Bryson

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About Michael Bryson

Michael A. Bryson is Professor and Director of Sustainability Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL; Chair of the College’s Department of Sociology & Sustainability; and a Scientific Affiliate in the Keller Science Action Center at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A Roosevelt faculty member since 1996, Bryson is co-founder of Roosevelt’s Sustainability Studies program, launched in 2010 and the first undergraduate degree program of its kind in the Chicago region; and the founding director of the Roosevelt Urban Sustainability Lab (est. He was a First-Year Faculty Fellow at RU for 2016-18, in which capacity he taught first-year general education seminars to new undergraduates. Bryson’s current research and writing focus on sustainability within urban and suburban environments, city-based nature writing, the evolving notion of “urban wilderness,” the environmental and literary history of the Chicago region, and the applications of sustainability in higher education.