Political Science & International Affairs
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Professor Welker received her BA from Indiana University in Political Science and Philosophy, her MA from Colorado State University in Political Science, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Colorado State University, with specializations in Political Theory, Environmental Policy, and International Relations.
Dr. Chelsea Welker is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Professor Welker teaches a range of courses, including introductory courses in international relations and a wide range of upper division courses.
Dr. Welker's research focuses on ecological subjectivity and environmental political action/ climate change. She also studies new materialism and poststructural International Relations.
Dr. Welker has published work in The Journal of Psychosocial Studies and is currently in the process of proposing her first full-length monograph entitled Re-Imagining the Ecological Subject: Toward a Critical Materialism of Entangled Ecologies.