Joseph Underhill received degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He has been working at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN since 1998 and from 2010-12 served as Batalden Faculty Scholar in Applied Ethics. In 2016-18 he was Program Director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. He is a founding member of the college’s Environmental Stewardship Committee, and helped create and currently directs the Environmental Studies Program. Prof. Underhill created and now directs the River Semester program, the nation’s only full semester program offered on the Mississippi River. He has been teaching and researching the political, cultural, and psychological dimensions of environmental and security issues for the last twenty years and written and presented on the intersection of political psychology, security, and the environment. He is author of Death and the Statesman (Palgrave, 2001). Dr. Underhill teaches courses in environmental and river politics, research methodology, political movements, and a range of topics in environmental politics. In his courses he emphasizes experiential and critical, place-based pedagogy, regularly engaging students in fieldwork and service projects, including courses in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Egypt (2012), Tanzania (2013), and now regularly on the Mississippi River.