Debra Salazar
Professor Emerita (1990-2025)
About
Debra Salazar earned her MS and Phd in Forest Resource Policy from the University of Washington. She joined the faculty of the Political Science Department at Western Washington University in 1990 and later joined the College of Environment as an Affiliate Professor of Environmental Studies. Professor Salazar’s scholarship and teaching have been motivated by her belief in the promise of the Declaration of Independence. She taught courses in U.S. politics, social movements, and environmental politics and policy. The last two courses she offered were Labor Politics and The American Dream. Her scholarship includes empirical research on environmental inequality and creative nonfiction focused on place, family, and democracy. Now retired, Salazar takes advantage of having more time to run, ride, hike, read, and write. Her beliefs in equality, freedom, and democracy continue to drive her reading and writing.
Selected Publications
- Assoudeh, E. and D.J. Salazar. 2017. Movement Structure in an Authoritarian Regime: A Network Analysis of the Women’s and Student Movements in Iran. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change 41:137-171.
- Abel, T., D.J. Salazar, and P. Robert. 2015. States of Environmental Justice: Redistributive Politics Across the United States. Review of Policy Research 32(2):200-225.
- Salazar, D.J. 2015. From Orchards to Cubicles: Work and Space in the Silicon Valley. In Chris Robertson and Jennifer Westerman, Working on Earth: the Intersection of Working-Class Studies and Environmental Justice. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
- Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper. 2011. Justice and Environmentalisms in the British Columbia and Pacific Northwest Environmental Movements. Society and Natural Resources 24 9(8):767-784.
- Salazar, D.J. 2009. Saving Nature and Seeking Justice: Environmental Activists in the Pacific Northwest. Organization & Environment 22(2): 230-254.
- Alper, D.K. and D.J. Salazar. 2005. Identification with Transboundary Places and Support for Ecological Transboundary Governance: A Case Study of British Columbia Environmental Activists. Journal of Borderland Studies 20(1): 23-43.
- Salazar, D.J. 2003. Brown Hordes and Green Fears. Witness XVII (2): 144-155.
- Salazar, D.J. 2003. Border Fetishism and the Environmental Movement. In Donald K.Alper and Daniel T. Douthit, BorderBlur: In and Out of Place in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham.
- Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper. 2002. Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left: Perspectives on Democracy and Social Justice in the BC Environmental Movement. Canadian Journal of Political Science 35(3): 527-566.
- Salazar, D.J. and J.J. Hewitt. 2001. Think Globally, Secure the Borders: The Oregon Environmental Movement and the Population/Immigration Debate. Organization and Environment 14(3): 290-310.
- Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper (editors). 2000. Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast: Forging Truces in the War in the Woods. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.