Dr. Philip Reeder is currently a professor in the Center for Environmental Research and Education (CERE) at Duquesne University. He earned his B.S. in earth science from Frostburg State University, his M.S. in geography from Western Kentucky University, and his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He came to Duquesne in 2013 and served as the Dean of the School of Pharmacy School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (now the School of Science and Engineering) until 2021. He is currently a professor at the Center for Environmental Research and Education (CERE). Prior to being at Duquesne, he served as Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and Valdosta State University. In 1994, Reeder served as a prestigious Fulbright Scholar in Peru, where he led workshops about the environment for Peruvian educators and conducted environmental contamination and geoarchaeological research. His research and areas of expertise focus on environmental change, paleo-climate, and landscape evolution; environmental education, sustainability, and the human role in environmental change; and most recently, paleo-environments, geoarchaeology, and cultural landscape evolution.