Featured scholarly/creative works
- Gessas, W. J. (2023). The Standing Rock Water Protectors: Indigenous sovereignty as a refutation to extractive settler colonialism. In M. A. Raja & N. T. C. Lu (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice (pp. 540–554). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Callicott, B., Gessas, W. J., & Torres, J. (n.d.). Plato’s Ecological Insights and His Environmental Ethics. In Y. Suzuki & J. Torres (Eds.), Green Antiquity: Comparing Environmental Thought in Early China and Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Gessas, J., & Glazebrook, P. (Eds.). (2021). Settler Colonialism: A Special Issue. Environmental Ethics (4th ed., Vol. 42). Denton, TX, United States: Center for Environmental Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=enviroethics&fq=enviroethics%2FVolume%2F8958%7C42%2F
- Glazebrook, P., & Gessas, W. J. (2020). Standing Rock: Water protectors in a time of failed policy. In The Wonder of Water: Lived experience, policy, and practice (pp. 171–196). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: University of North Texas Academic Grant, University of North Texas. 2013 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Assistant Tuition Scholarship, University of North Texas. 2013 - 2021
- Award / Honor Nominee: Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, University of North Texas. September 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Academic Achievement Scholarship, University of North Texas. 2013 - 2014
Featured service activities
- Member
Sustainability Studies Faculty Advisory Council - Philosophy
- Graduate Advisor
Environmental Leadership, Engagement, and Ethics Graduate Advisor and Coordinator
- Co-Chair
Engaged Ecology Initiative
- Co-Chair
Engaged Ecology Initiative
- Organizer
Intellectual Responsibility and Democracy - Interdisciplinary Symposium
- Organizer
Decolonial Reading Group