Kenneth Worthy studies human-environment relationships over history and across cultures to better understand the origins of modernity's global environmental crisis, with the goal of a healthier, more sustainable, more livable world for the future. He teaches at St. Mary’s College of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University and is a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Environmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. in environmental studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.