Dominic Wilkins (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Environmental Studies at Berea College, a position he began in August 2025. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College. Dominic earned his PhD from the Department of Geography and the Environment, part of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. An interdisciplinary scholar who draws from fields including human and nature-society geographies, the environmental humanities, and religious studies, his research principally examines how religious actors advance and frustrate efforts to achieve socio-ecological justice. Dominic’s empirical work largely focuses on the institutions, grassroots movements, and other communities within the Catholic Church, and he is especially concerned with the tension between discursive commitments and mundane materialities. He has published in outlets including Environmental History; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion; and Progress in Human Geography.
Beyond his professorial work, Dominic’s hobbies include spending time hiking through the beautiful world we call home; cooking, baking, and eating; playing board games and chess (poorly); and otherwise spending time with his partner and their two mischievous cats.
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