Rebecca Johns

Associate Professor & Associate Chair

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Office: DAV 269
Phone: 727.873.4556
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Dr. Rebecca Johns is a native of California and an associate professor of geography. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in geography. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She is a past officer in the Florida Society of Geographers and the former Frank E. Duckwall Professor of Florida Studies. In 2022, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellow. Currently, Dr. Johns serves as the Associate Chair for Geosciences on the St. Petersburg campus. Dr. Johns’ recent publications focus on discursive analysis of narrative constructions of nature, environmental citizenship, more-than-human animals, and climate justice through educational exhibits at local and national parks and museums; local climate change impacts on socioeconomically vulnerable populations; and the development of a Thoreauvian pedagogy for the teaching of the human-nature relationship. In 2023, Dr. Johns won the College of Arts and Sciences award for excellence in Teaching in the Liberal Arts. Dr. Johns is currently writing a book on race, the social construction of nature and concepts of environmental citizenship from 1800 to 2000.