Gretel A. Van Wieren

Biography

Gretel Van Wieren is Professor of Religious Studies where her courses and research focus on the intersection of religion, ethics, and the environment. She is author of the books, Listening at Lookout Creek: Nature in Spiritual Practice (Oregon State University Press, 2019), Food, Farming and Religion: Emerging Ethical Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) and Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration (Georgetown University Press, 2013). Van Wieren’s articles have appeared in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology, Conservation Biology, Environmental Ethics, and the Public Philosophy Journal among others. She is recipient of a 2016 Mellon Foundation/Humanities Without Walls grant on the New Ethics of Food, and a 2015 H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest writing residency. Van Wieren is founder of The New Ethics of Food Network, a network of university and community-based partners committed to research and dialogue around a broadened understanding of food ethics, and is a regular contributor to the City Creature’s blog of the Center for Humans & Nature. She co-leads MSU’s Hawaii Study Away Program and the Department of Religious Studies Nonprofit Leadership Concentration. She received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University.