Thompson Building

Elizabeth Koebele Ph.D. Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor ekoebele@unr.edu (775) 682-7668 Thompson Building This Georgian-style building, designed by Reno architect Frederick De Longchamps, was built in 1920 to house the university's "teacher training" program. In 1959, the building was named to honor Dr. Reuben C. Thompson, who taught at the university from 1908 to 1948, and founded the Department of Philosophy. The building houses the Core Humanities; Gender, Race, and Identity program; and the Department of Political Science. 049 TB 39.5390210254189 -119.815248996019 false /global/images/around-campus/thompsonbuilding.jpg 1920 226 0302 /main/images/colleges-schools/liberal-arts/political-science/profile/elizabeth-koebele-web.jpg

Elizabeth A. Koebele is an associate professor of political science at the 91��. Her work focuses on environmental policy. Koebele's research and teaching interests include collaborative environmental governance, water policy and management in the western United States, disaster policy, public policy theory and qualitative/mixed methods. She is particularly interested in how collaborative approaches to policymaking shape the policy process and its outcomes. Her research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other funders. Koebele is the winner of a 2021 NSF CAREER award to support her research on Colorado River water governance, as well as the 2022 NSHE Board of Regents Rising Researcher award. Her work has been published in numerous academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Policy Sciences, Global Environmental Change and Water Resources Research. She also co-edits the journal Policy & Politics. Please inquire for a full CV and view her website for information on her research group. Koebele received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in environmental studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a research affiliate with the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) and a graduate research fellow with NSF's Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Prior to that, she graduated from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, as a proud first-generation college student.

<ul> <li>Ph.D., Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2017</li> <li>M.S., Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2014</li> <li>B.A., English Literature, Arizona State University, 2010</li> <li>B.A., Secondary Education, Arizona State University, 2010</li> </ul>