Sarah Michaels
Dr. 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. Dr. Michaels 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. She was a Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Environmental Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Michaels has consulted for the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Water Partnership, the International Sava River Basin Commission, the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee, and Environment and Climate Change Canada. Her research interests are in water resources policy and governance, the interfaces between science-and policy, comparative environmental policy and regional governance.
Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado
M.S., Natural Resource Management, Simon Fraser University
B.S., Independent Studies, Stormwater Management, University of Waterloo