The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences researcher of the year is Alida Cantor, an Associate Professor of Geography.
Dr. Cantor received her PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research applies theories of critical legal geography, political ecology, and environmental justice to applied problems of water resource governance and how water management can be more sustainable and equitable. She is particularly interested in the intersections of water with communities, food, energy, and urbanization. Dr. Cantor leads several grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency focused on environmental justice, water, and community impacts of renewable energy development around the US West. Her recent work has been published in journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Environmental Science and Policy, Water Alternatives, and Geoforum. Dr. Cantor is an Associate Editor of WIREs Water journal and chair of the Legal Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.