Ingrid L. Nelson

Ingrid L. Nelson is an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont in the Department of Geography and Geosciences. She specializes in feminist political ecology, digital geographies, and critical development studies, focusing on how digital technologies mediate environmental expertise and sustainability projects.

• Current research group: Feminist Digital Natures
• Past projects: Campus Green and Gold (Vermont campus sustainability, 2014-2020)
• Key fieldwork: Miombo woodlands (Mozambique)

Her teaching explores environmental justice, gender-space relations, and critical digital analysis through courses like Gender, Space and Environment and Natures, Places and the Politics of Truth. She emphasizes collaborative learning, autoethnography, and digital methods.

Research interests include more-than-human politics, embodied environmental subjectivity, and critical decolonial theory applied across diverse sites: Vietnamese hostess bars, Newfoundland science labs, and Vermont campuses.