Lucy Drummond
Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D. in Natural Resources, University of Vermont
  • M.A. Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
  • B.A. Feminism, Education, & Art, New York University

Area(s) of expertise

  • integrating ecological and social sciences
  • student-centered pedagogy
  • plastics, chemicals, and fossil fuels
  • environmental justice
  • environmental media

BIO

Lucy Drummond (she/her) is an interdisciplinary environmental scholar. Her research areas include plastics, environmental justice, fossil fuels, climate change, systems thinking, and emotion in the environmental field. Her Ph.D. dissertation reviewed the environmental justice issues of plastics throughout their entire “life cycle,” analyzed hope within the United Nations global plastics treaty, and contextualized plastic chemicals’ reproductive issues within an ecofeminist lens.

As a graduate student at UVM, Lucy served as President of the Rubenstein Graduate Student Association and on the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Faculty Search Committee, for which she was awarded an Outstanding Service to the School Award. Lucy’s Master’s thesis at NYU examined the environmental, humanitarian, and philosophical stakes embedded in the global journey of the making of a smartphone, for which she was awarded both departmental and school-wide awards.

 

Courses

  • Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Critical Reflection and Dialogue in Natural Resources
  • Plastics, Petrochemicals, and Life
  • Environmental Communication
  • Race and Culture in Natural Resources
  • Scientific Writing and Interpretation 

Bio

Lucy Drummond (she/her) is an interdisciplinary environmental scholar. Her research areas include plastics, environmental justice, fossil fuels, climate change, systems thinking, and emotion in the environmental field. Her Ph.D. dissertation reviewed the environmental justice issues of plastics throughout their entire “life cycle,” analyzed hope within the United Nations global plastics treaty, and contextualized plastic chemicals’ reproductive issues within an ecofeminist lens.

As a graduate student at UVM, Lucy served as President of the Rubenstein Graduate Student Association and on the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Faculty Search Committee, for which she was awarded an Outstanding Service to the School Award. Lucy’s Master’s thesis at NYU examined the environmental, humanitarian, and philosophical stakes embedded in the global journey of the making of a smartphone, for which she was awarded both departmental and school-wide awards.

 

Courses

  • Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Critical Reflection and Dialogue in Natural Resources
  • Plastics, Petrochemicals, and Life
  • Environmental Communication
  • Race and Culture in Natural Resources
  • Scientific Writing and Interpretation