Lisa H. Sideris is professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliation in the Religious Studies Department. Her research focuses on environmental thought and ethics at the intersection of science and religion. She is the author of Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection (Columbia University Press, 2003) and coeditor of Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (SUNY, 2008). Her book Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World was published by the University of California Press in 2017.