Greg Koutnik enjoys cultivating open, engaged, and critical discussions in his seminars to help students come to a better understanding of their own political perspectives as well as those of others.

In the spring, Greg will teach an introductory course in political theory and a seminar on environmental political theory. He will also co-teach the political science senior seminar with Professor Pablo Toral. 

Professor Koutnik’s research focuses on environmental political theory and U.S. political thought with an eye to questions of environmental stewardship and ecological belonging. His research focuses especially on conservationist and agrarian environmentalists like Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry, questions of scale and place in environmentalism, and the possibilities of an ecological populism.