Dr. Nancy Gift

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Chair of the Sustainability & Environmental Studies Department

Contact Information

Draper Building, 314
CPO 2025
Email: giftn@berea.edu
Phone: 859-985-3362

Nancy Gift

Spring 2022

Office Hours

Mon/ Wed/ Fri: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
In-person

Class Schedule

  • APS/SENS 215 (Mon/Wed/Fri: 9:20 am – 10:30 am)
  • GSTR 210 X (Mon/Wed/Fri: 2:40 pm – 3:50 pm)

Degrees

  • A.B. Biology, Harvard-Radcliffe
  • M.S. Crop Science, University of Kentucky
  • Ph.D. Crop and Soil Science, Cornell University

Honors and Awards

  • Buhl Professor of the Humanities, 2010-2011, Chatham University

Courses Taught

  • ENG 280
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Weed Management
  • GSTR 210
  • MAT 108
  • SENS 100

Special Interest

  • Vegetable gardens
  • Biking and hiking
  • Horses

Affiliations

  • Association of Environmental Studies and Science (journal editorial board)
  • Agronomy Society (Agronomy Journal Associate Editor)

Papers and Publications

  • Raven, Hassenzahl, Hager, Gift, and Berg. 2015. Environment. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
  • Black, B., Hassenzahl, D.M., Stephens, J., Gift, N, and Finewood, M.
    2013. Encyclopedia of Climate Change Volumes 1 – 4. ABC-Clio,
    Santa Barbara, CA.
  • Gift, N. Spring 2011. Good Weed, Bad Weed: Who’s Who, What to do, and Why Some Deserve a Second Chance. St. Lynn’s Press, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Gift, N. 2009. A Weed by Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don’t Plant. Beacon Press, Boston, MA.
  • Traw, B. and N. Gift. 2010. Environmental Microbiology: Tannins and the microbial decomposition of leaves on the forest floor. The American Biology
    Teacher 72: 506-512.
  • Gift, N., R.R. Hahn, and J. Mt Pleasant. 2008. Quackgrass managed as a cover crop in herbicide-resistant silage corn. Weed Biology and Management 8(3): 154-160.
  • Gift, N. and M. Krasny. 2003. The great fossil fiasco: teaching about peer review. The American Biology Teacher 65: 270-278.

Biography

I am a native of Lexington and thrilled to be back in southern Appalachia after many years away. I live in a tiny house and brag often about my two daughters, now in college.

Community Service

  • Chair of the Board of the Kentucky Environmental Foundation
  • Board Member: Pine Mountain Settlement School