UMERC Faculty Member

Miranda Schreurs, Associate Professor
Physics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology
Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Phone: 301.405.7797
Email: mschreurs@gvpt.umd.edu |  website

Statement of energy interests and expertise

Miranda Schreurs' research is focused on comparative and international environmental politics in Japan , China , East Asia , Germany , Europe, and the United States .

She is currently working on a number of book projects:

• Enlarging Trans-Atlantic Relations: The Political Economy of Environment, Agriculture, and Trade in EU-US Relations (co-editing with Henrik Selin and Stacy VanDeveer).
• Environmental Justice in China (co-editing with Jennifer Turner).
• Historical Dictionary of Green Movements, Second Edition , Blue Ridge Summit , PA : Scarecrow Press.

Environmental Justice in Comparative Perspective: The EU, the US, and Japan

Dr. Schreurs has had fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/National Science Foundation and the Tamaki Foundation. Schreurs served as co-director of the University of Maryland 's Freeman East Asian Studies Undergraduate Initiative. She has her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Washington . Schreurs teaches courses on Japanese politics, East Asian politics, German politics, European politics, Comparative and International Environmental Politics, Comparative Environmental Politics and Law, and Research methodology.