Sophie Sapp Moore, PhD, Cultural Studies, University of California-Davis. Sophie is an interdisciplinary political ecologist whose research uses ethnographic and historical methods to understand intersecting processes of socio-ecological and political change in the Afro-Americas. Moore's current book project, Freedom's Ground, examines the political ecology of radical agrarian life in Haiti's hinterland.

Sophie Sapp Moore will continue her appointment in the Humanities Research Center and the Center for Environmental Studies for 2022-23.