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Contact Information

Associate Professor

Education

Environmental Policy, PhD, Duke University
Conservation Biology, MA, Columbia University
Environmental Studies, AB, Vassar College

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications

Colby, A., Johnson, M. F., Wagner, C. H., & Wardropper, C. B. (2025). Market approaches to sequester soil organic carbon on farms: justifications and suggested transformations from embedded market actors. Agriculture and Human Values, 42(3), 1553-1575. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10694-w

Gross, J. C., Johnson, M. F., & Martenies, S. E. (2025). Evaluating the Justice and Risk Dimensions of Ethylene Oxide Governance in the US. Environmental Management, 75(4), 730-745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02099-6

Guske, E. L., Johnson, M. F., & Novoa, M. (2025). “Everything we do matters”: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Article 02637758251349885. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251349885

Johnson, M. F., Rodríguez, L. A., & Quijano Hoyos, M. (2025). Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia. Journal of Peasant Studies, 52(1), 129-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2326577

Anderson, S. R., & Johnson, M. F. (2024). The spatial and scalar politics of a just energy transition in Illinois. Political Geography, 112, Article 103128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103128

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