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Texas State University

Dr. Jeff Gessas

  • Asst Professor of Instruction - Philosophy
  • DERR 201
  • tel:+15122452285
  • wg1055@txstate.edu
Portrait of Dr. Jeff Gessas
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

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., 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.

Featured awards

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

Featured service activities

  1. Graduate Advisor

    Environmental Leadership, Engagement, and Ethics Graduate Advisor and Coordinator

    August 2024 - Present
  2. Co-Chair

    Engaged Ecology Initiative

    June 2023 - Present
  3. Co-Chair

    Engaged Ecology Initiative

    June 2023 - Present
  4. Organizer

    Decolonial Reading Group

    August 2019 - August 2021
  5. Other

    Latin(x) Faculty Hire Committee

    October 2019 - February 2020