Faculty Profile for Dr. Jeff Gessas

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Dr. Jeff Gessas
Asst Professor of Instruction — Philosophy
DERR 201
phone: (512) 245-2285

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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., Torres, J., & Gessas, J. (n.d.). Plato’s Ecological Insights and His Environmental Ethics. In Ancient Chinese and Greek Environmental Thought.
  • 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.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, University of North Texas. September 2020

Selected Service Activities

Co-Chair
Engaged Ecology Initiative
June 1, 2023-Present
Co-Chair
Engaged Ecology Initiative
June 1, 2023-Present
Organizer
Decolonial Reading Group
August 2019-August 2021
Graduate Student Representative for Faculty Hiring Committee
Latin(x) Faculty Hire Committee
October 2019-February 2020