Faculty Fellow with the Office for Sustainability

Professor David Salisbury with two small turtles

2026-2027 Faculty Fellow
Dr. David Seward Salisbury

The Office for Sustainability is pleased to announce Dr. David Seward Salisbury as the inaugural Faculty Fellow in Sustainability. Over the upcoming academic year, Dr. Salisbury will collaborate closely with the Office for Sustainability on key initiatives related to the enhancement of sustainability across the curriculum. The Fellow’s role will center on sustainability education and campus-wide outreach.

Dr. David Salisbury is a geographer who has 25 years of experience conducting participatory geospatial human-environment research with rural peoples in remote forested areas. He is currently chair and associate professor of the Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability at University of Richmond. His applied research approach focuses on environmental justice, climate change, Indigenous rights, transboundary political ecology, resource conflict, sustainability, geo-technology, and conservation, with the majority of his research conducted in the Amazon borderlands of Peru and Brazil.

To learn more about sustainability at the University of Richmond, please visit sustainability.richmond.edu. To learn more about Dr. Salisbury or to connect, please visit his faculty profile.

Areas of Focus   

  • Sustainability and Climate Literacy: Clarify the foundational concepts that should be integrated across the curriculum to strengthen students’ understanding of sustainability and climate literacy.  
  • River City Project/Faculty Development: Provide pedagogical and facilitation support to the Office for Sustainability for the River City Project. Help integrate climate justice pedagogy into faculty development.      
  • Climate Justice Forum: Co-facilitate a faculty workshop on sustainability and climate justice in education.   
  • Advisory Support: Provide faculty insights into sustainability education initiatives, including campus as a living lab, competency assessment, course module development, and subject matter expertise.

For more information on the Faculty Fellow in Sustainability, reach out to dhart@richmond.edu