Rich Borden

Richard Borden teaches courses in environmental psychology, personality and social development, contemporary psychology, and the history and philosophy of human ecology. Rich has just returned to full-time teaching, having served as COAs Academic Dean for twenty years. He is a Past-President of the Society for Human Ecology and continues to serve as its Executive Director. His educational background includes a B.A. from the University of Texas; an M. A. and Ph. D. in psychology from Kent State University; and a University Post-Doctoral Fellowship in animal behavior and ecology at Ohio State University. An author of numerous books and articles, he has been a USIA academic specialist and consultant in the area of human ecology and served as an advisor to human ecology programs in China, Russia and elsewhere in Europe and in North and South America. In addition to his passion for networking human ecology worldwide, Rich also enjoys the more domestic pleasures of cooking, carpentry, music and sailing.