Trevor S. Lies

Trevor Lies
  • Graduate Student
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Education —

B.A. in Psychology, The University of Kansas, 2019, Lawrence, Kansas
M.A. in Psychology, The University of Kansas, 2021, Lawrence, Kansas

Research —

Advisor: Glenn Adams, PhD

Research Lab: Cultural Psychology Research Group (CPRG)

Trevor's research explores how modern forms of environmental engagement and ideas about land, nature, and injustice have their roots in—and can reproduce ways of being associated with—colonialism, capitalism, and racism. He approaches this work from a perspective of cultural psychology informed by decolonial theory. His dissertation research investigates the psychology of support for modern development in the context of the Wakarusa Wetlands in Lawrence, Kansas.

Selected Publications —

Lies, T. S., Adams, G., & Santangelo, B. (2022). Decolonial Considerations of Environmentalism: Observations from a (US) State Park. Psychology in Society. 64, 21-43. https://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/pins/article/view/5453

Lies, T. S., Omar, S. M., Roennengart, A., Adams, G., & Santangelo, B. (2024). Attributing Extreme Weather to Climate Change: State Park Employees as Institutional Actors. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.111/asap.12400

Awards & Honors —

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Student Travel Award, 2021

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

Libraries Open Educational Resources Grant, KU, 2021

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Tinker Field Research Grant, KU, 2021

Center for Undergraduate Research, Research-Intensive Course Mini-Grant, KU, 2020

Memberships —

Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

The Resilient Activist