Jolina H. Ruckert

About the author:

Jolina H. Ruckert, PhD is an Assistant Professor with Term of Psychology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is the founding director of the Sustainability Psychology in Action (SPIA) Lab. Broadly speaking, her scholarship explores the role Sustainable Relationships (Ruckert et al., 2021; in press) play in personal, interpersonal, and planetary health. Sustainable relationships between humans and the more-than-human Earth are those which maintain mutuality, balance, and harmony, minimize harm, and maximize equity, in a form that is viable and persists over time. With this framework she explores the emotional bonds (Ruckert & Arnold, 2018; Ruckert et. al., in press), varied beliefs (Ruckert, 2019; Weinhardt & Ruckert, 2023), and meaningful experiences (Ruckert et al., 2024) humans have with the more-than-human Earth and how these psychosocial and behavioral experiences shape environmental moral concerns (Ruckert, 2016). She has traveled to over 70 countries to explore how our relationships with fire, water, and animals shape what it means to be human in community.