Dr. John Sutherlin

Dr. John Sutherlin
Program Coordinator
Associate Professor
Stubbs 104
318-342-1541
sutherlin@ulm.edu

Ph.D. - University of New Orleans
M.S. -   University of New Orleans
B.A. -   Louisiana Tech University

Co-Director - Social Science Research Lab






Courses Taught

• POLS 101: Introduction to Politics
• POLS 201: American National Politics
• POLS 202: State and Local Politics
• POLS 440: Comparative Politics
• POLS 444: Middle East Politics
• POLS 451: Foreign Policy
• POLS 453: International Politics

Areas of Interest

Environmental politics, Middle East, International Organizations, urban environmental management, Non-governmental organizations, Global ecological issues.

Academic Bio

In 2004, Dr. Sutherlin was nominated for the John H. Stibbs Award for Faculty at Tulane University. Also, that same year, he was nominated for the Volvo for Life Award for his work in developing water technologies.

He was a finalist for the position of Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality for the State of Louisiana under Governor Blanco. Before coming to ULM, Dr. Sutherlin taught for more than 7 years at Tulane University.

At ULM, Dr. Sutherlin was elected to the Faculty Senate, developed the shared governance procedures and received the 2007 Award for Excellence for the entire university. 

Dr. Sutherlin is a frequent speaker at international conferences and lectures on a variety of environmental and natural resource management issues.

He is the author of two environmental management books, producer and director of 24 urban environmental documentary films and political consultant for numerous local, state and federal government agencies.

He has appeared on Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC, as well as a commentator for BBC and Bloomberg.

For more than a year, he has been a regular political commentator for KNOE-540 AM. He has held hundreds of public hearings and spoke at conferences in the US, Europe and South America.

He has worked with a number of European and South American governments and private companies in the area of environmental compliance, permitting, technology assessment and regulatory management. 

Dr. Sutherlin is also a patented inventor of environmental technologies and processes.