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Emmit (Bud) Evans
Contemporary Global Issues, World Food Systems, The Global Environment, Disaster Resistant Sustainable Communities, Interdisciplinary Studies
Contact Information
Office: Building 47, Room 11M
Phone: 805-756-2919
E-mail: eevans@calpoly.edu
Bud Evans teaches Contemporary Global Political Issues, World Food Systems, the Global Environment, and Building Disaster-Resistant Sustainable Communities at California Polytechnic State University. He is a Member of the Cal Poly Disaster Management/Homeland Security Advisory Board, the Cal Poly Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, Faculty Sponsor of the Cal Poly Chapter of the Student World Assembly, and a Member of the Organizing Committee of the Cal Poly Chapter of Universities Fighting World Hunger.
Dr. Evans has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and has conducted research in Kenya as a Fulbright Fellow and in Mexico as a Rockefeller Foundation Environmental Affairs Fellow. He worked as a Research Political Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, and worked for ten years as the Executive Director of a regional community action agency in southwest Colorado.
He is currently developing a Consortium for Academic Exchange through Global Communications Technology designed to link academic courses around the world through videoconferencing; working on the development of interdisciplinary courses in Cal Poly's university-wide UNIV Interdisciplinary Studies Program, and developing Cal Poly certificate and degree programs in Disaster Management and Homeland Security.
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Political Science Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
805-756-2984 Last Updated: 01/28/2008
E-mail: politicalscience@calpoly.edu