Vivian E. Thomson

vthomson@virginia.edu Phone: 924-3964

Assistant Professor Vivian E. Thomson teaches in the Department of Environmental Sciences and the Department of Politics. Her professional specialty is environmental politics. In 2001 she helped to create--and she now co-directs--the Environmental Thought and Practice B. A. program, one of the University's newest interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programs.

Professor Thomson's work extends outside of the University into the realm of environmental policy in practice. She was appointed by Governor Warner in 2002 to the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board, the five-member body that makes air pollution policy for the Commonwealth of Virginia. And she has recently participated in meetings in Germany and Italy on the subjects of trash management and greenhouse gas emissions trading, respectively.

During academic year 2001-2002 Professor Thomson was Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, where she taught American politics and environmental policy. Professor Thomson's book manuscript, Desperately Seeking Certainty: Air Pollution Policy and Its Discontents, 1970-1995, is under review. Her second book project--Garbage In, Garbage Out: Virginia is for Landfills--examines interstate trash transport in the United States within a broad social, economic, and cultural context that includes cross-country comparisons

Vivian E. Thomson Curriculum Vitae