Professor Emeritus of Politics and Environmental Studies
Robert Rakoff
Professor Emeritus of Politics and Environmental Studies
He taught at the University of Illinois/Chicago and worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before coming to Hampshire in 1979.
His teaching and research interests include environmental history and policy; the politics of land use; the cultural construction of nature; creative non-fiction writing about the outdoors; and the political economy of farming and rural life in the U.S.A.