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Teresa is Professor in and Interim Co-Chair of the Liberal Studies Department. With interdisciplinary training as an educational and environmental anthropologist, she broadly works in the fields of human-animal studies, just and sustainable food systems, and environmental education and has published widely in these areas. Teresa has received several external grants to support her research, including from the California Humanities and the California Science Project. In 2018 the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences selected her as their inaugural Early Career Fellow. She is currently a Faculty Fellow to Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development and Graduate Coordinator of the Master's in Regenerative Studies program at Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. She has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences since 2021 and most recently took on a new leadership role as a CSU-wide Academic Senator. In her leisure time, Teresa is an avid farmer, gym-goer, cook, and yogi and enjoys spending time with her dogs, cats, and flock of chickens.

Teresa's most recent scholarly work focuses on livestock-keeping in urban, suburban, and peri-urban contexts. She is conducting a long-term multispecies ethnographic research project with a graduate student, Jillian Muñoz, that examines backyard chicken-keeping practices in the Southern California region, while situating these practices within larger political, economic, and ecological contexts. Teresa and Jillian are especially interested in backyard chicken-keeping in historically underrepresented communities and seek to understand the creative ways people and their chickens resist the industrialized food system, as well as Western conceptualizations of belongingness in the city. From a theoretical standpoint, her work is grounded in ecofeminism, multispecies intersectionality, feminist animal studies, feminist STS, political ecology, and urban agroecology (especially the metabolic rift and metabolic politics). This research is significant given the contemporary bird flu crisis, which has stoked Californian's interest in chickens, and due to proposed anti-rooster legistlation at the state level (AB 928, "Cocking Fighting Cruelty Act"). 

Interests

Human-animal studies

Farm animals and livestock

Urban and suburban animals

Multispecies ethnography

Just and sustainable food systems

Agroecology

Critical food systems education

Environmental education

Ecofeminsm, feminist posthumanism, intersectionality

Journal Articles

• Lloro, T. (2025). . Environmental Education Research. Advance online publication. 
• Lloro, T., & Russell, C. (2025). . Society & Animals (published online ahead of print). 
• Lloro, T. (2025). . Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems. Advance online publication.
• Gough, A., Ho, Y. C. J., Lloro, T., Russell, C., Walters, S., & Whitehouse, H. (2024). . Gender and Education 36(4), 299-311.
• Lloro, T, & González, F. (2022).. Canadian Food Studies, 9(2), 180-204.
• Hunold, C., & Lloro, T. (2022). . Journal of Urban Affairs, 44(2), 156-173.
• Lloro, T. (2021). . Journal of Environmental Education, 5, 303-313.
• Lloro, T, & Hunold, C. (2020). . Environmental Education Research, 26(2), 189-205. 
• Lloro-Bidart, T., & Sidwell, C. M. (2019). . Journal of Environmental Education, 51(3), 200-213.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2018). . Journal of Environmental Education, 49(4), 276-285.
• Lloro-Bidart, T., & Finewood, M. (2018). . Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 8(2), 141-152.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2018). . Educational Studies, 54(3), 253-270.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2018). . Emotion, Space, and Society, 27, 23-30.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2018). . Journal of Environmental Education, 49(2), 152-163.
• Meek, D., & Lloro-Bidart, T. (2017). . Journal of Environmental Education, 48(4), 213-225.
• Lloro-Bidart, T., & Semenko, K. (2017). . Journal of Environmental Education, 48(1), 18-25. 
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2017). . Gender, Place, & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24(6), 774-793.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2017). . Environmental Education Research, 23(1), 111-130.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2017). . Environmental Education Research, 23(8), 1182-1199.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2015). “Culture as ability”: Organizing enabling educative spaces for humans and animals. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 20, 93-108.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2015). . Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 6, 128-148.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2014). . Journal of Political Ecology, 21, 389-407.

Books

• Lloro, T. (2021). . New York: Peter Lang.
• Lloro-Bidart, T., & Banschbach, V. (Eds.). (2019). . New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

• Lloro, T. (2020). Toward an interspecies critical food systems education. In A. S. Gkiolmas & C. Skordoulis (Eds.), (pp. 145-159). New York, NY: Springer.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2019). . In J. Brady, B. Parker, S. Belyea, & E. Power (Eds.), Feminist food studies: Exploring intersectionality (pp. 33-56). St. Paul, Minnesota: Women’s Press.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2019). (Eds.), Animals in environmental education: Interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum and pedagogy (pp. 53-76). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lloro-Bidart, T., & Banschbach, V. (2019). In T. Lloro-Bidart & V. Banschbach (Eds.), Animals in environmental education: Interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum and pedagogy (pp. 1-16). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. (2018). . In S. Rutherford & S. Wilcox (Eds.), Historical animal geographies (pp. 25-51). New York: Routledge.
• Lloro-Bidart, T. & Russell, C. (2017). Learning science in aquariums and on whalewatching boats: The political deployment of other animals. In M. P. Mueller, D. J. Tippins, & A.J. Stewart (Eds.), (pp. 41-50). New York: Springer