Ryan Juskus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Ryan Juskus is assistant professor of the practice and faculty director of NDBridge at the Institute for Social Concerns. As part of the institute’s core faculty, Juskus teaches Pursuing Justice and the Common Good in the McNeill Fellows Program, the NDBridge course, and courses on social thought and environmental justice.
What drives Juskus’s teaching and research are concerns related to the social, religious, and moral dimensions of environmental and climate challenges. He uses humanistic and social research methods to study the norms and strategies of grassroots environmentalists, primarily in the Americas, and contributes to formulating constructive responses to environmental injustices. His first major project was an ethnographic study of grassroots Christian communities who used citizen science in pursuit of environmental justice in Appalachia. Juskus is currently preparing his first book manuscript, Restoring Eden in Sacrifice Zones. Other projects include researching the role of Christian thought in the long environmental justice movement and the lived ecological and social theologies of environmental defenders.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Juskus held academic appointments at Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Wake Forest University, and Duke University.
Juskus holds a Ph.D. in religion from Duke University, with a focus on Christian theology’s intersections with environmental studies and political economy.