Sarah MichaelsDr. Sarah Michaels is a professor in the Political Science Department and is a faculty fellow with the Public Policy Center. She is one of eleven faculty members hired through the University of Nebraska - Lincoln’s Water Resources Research Initiative. She teaches courses in public policy. Her research interests are in water resources policy and management, knowledge uptake for public policy decision-making, the science-policy interface, comparative environmental policy and regional governance. Among her publications are journal articles in Society and Natural Resources, Environmental Management, Policy Studies Journal, Environmental Conservation, Land Use Policy and Sustainable Development.
Dr. Michaels received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. She was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and a Gilbert F. White Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. Michaels comes to the University of Nebraska from the University of Waterloo in Canada where she was Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Planning.