About Dr. Allred
Shorna Allred is the Susan R. Wolf Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Dept. of Geography and Environment, College of Arts and Sciences. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University in the Center for Conservation Social Sciences, Dept. of Natural Resources and the Environment.
Dr. Allred, a native Texan and first-generation college student, earned her Ph.D. from Oregon State University and her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Penn State University. Allred began her academic career at Purdue University in 2001 and was on the Cornell University faculty from 2007 through 2023. She was also the Associate Director of the Center for Conservation Social Sciences and a member of the Graduate Fields of Natural Resources and Global Development while at Cornell.
A conservation social scientist, Dr. Allred teaches and conducts research in the areas of global sustainability, conservation and land use decision-making, community resilience, and environmental justice. Her main interests center on how social science can facilitate community-based approaches to planning and management while enhancing the resilience and sustainability of communities both locally and abroad.
Dr. Allred is passionate about engaging students in community-based work and leads a global service learning program, Global Citizenship and Sustainability, that is focused on indigenous community resilience. She works in Southeast Asia in Malaysian Borneo and recently spent her sabbatical investigating flood resilience in Bangkok, Thailand. Her teaching focus is on community-based research methods in natural resources, global service-learning, environmental justice, and community organizing for the public good. She was the recipient of the 2018 Engaged Scholar Prize, the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, and the 2021 Rising Star Faculty Award.
In her spare time Dr. Allred enjoys spending time with friends and family, learning about cultures of the world, reading historical fiction and poetry, exploring the outdoors, and her new hobby of playing the ukelele.
Dr. Allred, a native Texan and first-generation college student, earned her Ph.D. from Oregon State University and her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Penn State University. Allred began her academic career at Purdue University in 2001 and was on the Cornell University faculty from 2007 through 2023. She was also the Associate Director of the Center for Conservation Social Sciences and a member of the Graduate Fields of Natural Resources and Global Development while at Cornell.
A conservation social scientist, Dr. Allred teaches and conducts research in the areas of global sustainability, conservation and land use decision-making, community resilience, and environmental justice. Her main interests center on how social science can facilitate community-based approaches to planning and management while enhancing the resilience and sustainability of communities both locally and abroad.
Dr. Allred is passionate about engaging students in community-based work and leads a global service learning program, Global Citizenship and Sustainability, that is focused on indigenous community resilience. She works in Southeast Asia in Malaysian Borneo and recently spent her sabbatical investigating flood resilience in Bangkok, Thailand. Her teaching focus is on community-based research methods in natural resources, global service-learning, environmental justice, and community organizing for the public good. She was the recipient of the 2018 Engaged Scholar Prize, the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, and the 2021 Rising Star Faculty Award.
In her spare time Dr. Allred enjoys spending time with friends and family, learning about cultures of the world, reading historical fiction and poetry, exploring the outdoors, and her new hobby of playing the ukelele.
