Phillip Warsaw
Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice
Phillip Warsaw's research takes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental justice, economic development, and sustainability.
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Phillip Warsaw is an Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice in the Department of Community Sustainability. Broadly, his research takes an interdisciplinary approach to questions of environmental justice, economic development, and sustainability, combining approaches from economics and the other social sciences, such as the use of critical theory. He holds a PhD in Economics as well as an MS in Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior ... to joining MSU, Phil was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ph.D., Economics | 2017
University of Wisconsin-Madison: M.S., Environmental Studies | 2015
University of Wisconsin-Madison: M.A., Economics | 2011
Wake Forest University: B.S., Mathematical Economics | 2009
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Milwaukee campaign to replace We Energies with municipal utility grows
WUVM | 2023-05-02
These inequities offer a look at how racial capitalism plays out. That’s according to Phil Warsaw, an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s department of community sustainability. He recently published research on the connections between COVID-19, redlining, and energy security in Milwaukee.
After the Smoke Clears, When Should Classes Resume?
Inside Higher Ed | 2023-03-09
Phillip Warsaw, a professor in MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has taken advantage of that flexibility. He said that while there was “very little appetite” among MSU faculty members, himself included, to return to mandatory hybrid and online learning, it’s a helpful short-term option in this case. About half of his students are taking his classes remotely, he said; he also moved all deadlines back until after spring break, which ends today.
New grocery store downtown Lansing puts an end to decades long ‘food desert’
WLNS | 2020-10-13
Dr. Phillip Warsaw is Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University and he warns, “One making sure that food is affordable more so than food just being available.”
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