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Andrea K. Gerlak, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Associate

International Studies Association
Department of Political Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

E-mail:agerlak@u.arizona.edu

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Andrea K. Gerlak is Director of Academic Development with the International Studies Association, Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Senior Policy Associate with the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Andrea had more than 10 years experience in program development, teaching, and administration, while serving on the faculty at Guilford College and Columbia University.

Her research interests are in the fields of public policy, institutional theory, natural resource management, and water governance. Broadly speaking, her work investigates water management and policy at multiple scales and across diverse settings. Her research addresses conditions supporting collective action, the interface between science and policy, and institutional change and adaptability in large-scale ecosystem settings in the United States. In international transboundary settings, she studies the role of intergovernmental organizations in cooperative institutional arrangements and scientific knowledge and information sharing in global water governance.

Andrea has published articles in Policy Studies Journal, Natural Resources Journal, Society & Natural Resources, PS: Political Science & Politics, Environmental Management, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, University of Denver Water Law Review, Journal of Environment and Development, Global Environmental Politics, and Water Resources Research.

She has collaborated on projects with the Arizona Water Institute and the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona. She served as a fellow with the Natural Resources Leadership Institute at North Carolina State University, and has helped design and administer interdisciplinary environmental studies programs at both Guilford College and Columbia University. Andrea holds a BA and MA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1991, 1992), and Ph.D. in Political Science, with a minor in Renewable Natural Resources from the University of Arizona (1997).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gerlak, Andrea K. 2008. “Today's Pragmatic Water Policy: Restoration, Collaboration, and Adaptive Management Along U.S. Rivers,” Society & Natural Resources 21 (6) (July) 538-545.

Dale, Lisa and Andrea K. Gerlak. 2007. “It’s All in the Numbers: Acreage Tallies and Environmental Program Evaluation,” Environmental Management 39: 246-260.

Gerlak, Andrea K. and Tanya Heikkila. 2006. “Comparing Collaborative Mechanisms in Large-Scale Ecosystem Governance,” Natural Resources Journal 46 (3): 657-707.

Thorson, John E., Ramsey Kropf, Andrea Gerlak, and Dar Crammond. 2006. “Dividing Western Waters: A Century of Adjudicating Rivers and Streams, Part II,” University of Denver Water Law Review 9: 298.

Thorson, John E., Ramsey Kropf, Dar Crammond, and Andrea Gerlak. 2005. “Dividing Western Waters: A Century of Stream Adjudications, Part I,” University of Denver Water Law Review 8(2): 355-461.

Heikkila, Tanya and Andrea K. Gerlak. 2005. “The Formation of Large-Scale Collaborative Resource Management Institutions: Clarifying the Roles of Stakeholders, Science and Institutions,” Policy Studies Journal 33(4): 583-612.

Gerlak, Andrea K. 2004. “One Basin at a Time: The Global Environment Facility and Governance of Transboundary Waters.” Global Environmental Politics, 4(4)(November): 108-141.