Wendy Jepson

Biography

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
• M.A., Geography, Syracuse University, 1997
• B.A., History and Geography (Honors), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

Awards & Honors

• Student Government Open Access Award, Texas A&M University (2019)
• Dean’s Distinguished Achievement in Research, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University (2018)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Leshner Fellow for Public Engagement, 2018-2019
• Marisco Visiting Scholar, University of Denver, Denver, CO (2017)
• Faculty Recognition, U.S. Veteran Resource and Support Network (2016)
• Enhancing Diversity Award, Association of American Geographers (2015)
• Richard Stadelmen Faculty Senate Service Award, Texas A&M University Faculty Senate, 2013
• Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2006-2007, including a $5,000 grant for undergraduate education, 2006

Selected Publications

• For full list of publications see public CV

  ^* graduate student, ^c corresponding author, ⁺ post-doctoral scholar

  • Roque, Anais*, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Carlos García-Quijano, Hilda Lloréns, Wendy Jepson. (2021) “Autogestión and Water Sharing Networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María” Water International
  • Empinotti, V.L., Budds, J., Jepson, W., Millington, N., Ferrara, L.N, Gerree, J., Grandisoli, E., da Paz, M.G.A., Puga, B.P., Alves, E.M., Cawood, S., Jacobi, P.R., Kinjo, V.U., Lampis, A., Moretti, R., Octavianti, T., Periotto, N. Quinn, R., Quintslr, S., Sulaiman, S., Vicente, P.A., Wahbi, N. (2021). Advancing Urban Water Security: The Urbanization of Water-Society Relations and Entry Points for Political Engagement. Water International. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1937901
  • Jepson, Wendy, Paula Tomaz⁺, Juha Baek, and Jader de Oliveira Santos (2021) “Household Water Insecurity in Northeast Brazil: Rural-Urban Comparisons During Drought” Water International
  • Catherine Fallon Grasham*, Roger Calow, Vincent Casey, Katrina J. Charles, Sara de Wit, Ellen Dyer, Jess Fullwood-Thomas, Mark Hirons, Robert Hope, Sonia Hoque, Wendy Jepson, Marina Korzenevica-Proud, Rebecca Murphy, John Plastow, Ian Ross, Iñigo Ruiz-Apilánez, E. Lisa Schipper, Joanne Trevor, Nigel Walmsley, and Hashim Zaidi. (2021) “Engaging with the politics of climate resilience towards clean water and sanitation for all.” NPJ Clean Water https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-021-00133-2
  • Wutich, Amber, Wendy Jepson, Justin Stoler, Alexandra Brewis, Michelle Kooy, Katie Meehan, Chad Staddon, and Patrick Thomson (2021) “Household Water Insecurity Research and Future Directions” Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Jepson, Wendy, Patricia Martin, and Joseph Nevins. (2021) “Sorry to bother you: the AAG Climate Action Task Force as a necessary inconvenience” The Professional Geographer
  • Lee, Kyungsun⁺ and Wendy Jepson. (2021) “Life cycle assessment studies on desalination: A systematic review” Desalination https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2021.115066
  • Jepson, Wendy, Justin Stoler, Juha Baek, Javier Moran, Felipe Uribe, and Genny Carrillo (2021) “A cross-sectional study to measure household water insecurity and its health outcomes in urban Mexico” British Medical Journal Open http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040825
  • Justin Stoler, Joshua D. Miller, Alexandra Brewis, Matthew Freeman, Leila M. Harris, Wendy Jepson, Amber L. Pearson, Asher Y. Rosinger, Sameer H. Shah, Chad Staddon, Cassandra Workman, Amber Wutich, Sera L. Young, and the Household Water Insecurity Experiences Research Coordination Network (HWISE RCN) (2021) “Household Water Insecurity Will Complicate the Ongoing COVID-19 Response: Evidence from 29 Sites in 23 Low- and Middle-Income Countries” International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113715
  • Sneegas, Gretchen⁺, Sydney Beckner^#, Christian Brannstrom, Wendy Jepson, Kyungsun Lee⁺, and Lucas Seghezzo (2020) “Using Q Methodology in Environmental Sustainability Research: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review” Ecological Economics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106864
  • Lee, Kyungsun⁺ and Wendy Jepson. (2020) “Systematic review of water reuse, recycling and reclamation for sustainable urban water use” Water Security https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2020.100073
  • Meehan, Katie, Wendy Jepson, Leila Harris, Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, Amanda Fencl, Jonathan London, Gregory Pierce, Lucero Radonic, Christian Wells, Nicole Wilson, and the HWISE Consortium (2020) “Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: a critical review” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water e1486 https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1486
  • Rosinger, Asher, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich, Wendy Jepson, Chad Staddon, Justin Stoler, Sera L. Young, and HWISE Consortium. (2020) “Water borrowing is consistently practiced and associated with water system failures across diverse environments globally” Global Environmental Change https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102148
  • Harris, L., C. Staddon, A. Wutich, J. Budds, Jepson, A Pearson, E. Adams. (2020) "Water sharing and the right to water: Refusal, rebellion, and everyday resistance" Political Geography https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102245
  • Stoler, J., Wendy Jepson, Amber Wutich. (2020) “Beyond Handwashing: Water Insecurity Undermines COVID-19 Response in Developing Areas” Journal of Global Health http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue202001/jogh-10-010355.htm
  • Tomaz, P*, Jepson^c, J. Santos (2020) “Urban household water insecurities from the margins: Perspectives from Northeast Brazil” The Professional Geographer https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2020.1750439
  • Wutich, A. Rosinger, A. Brewis, Jepson. J. Stoler (2019) Measuring Water for Human Biology. American Journal of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23350
  • Young, Sera, Godfred Boeteng, Torsten Neilands, Josh Miller, Shalean Collins, Alexandra Brewis, Ed Frongillo, Hugo Melgar-Quinoes, Roseanne Schuster, Amber Wutich, Wendy Jepson, and Justin Stoler, and HWISE Consortium (2019) “Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Household Water Insecurity Across Cultures: The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale”. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001750. https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e001750
  • Brewis, Alexandra, Cassandra Workman, Amber Wutich, Wendy Jepson, Sera Young, and the HWISE-RCN (2019) “Household Water Insecurity Is a Plausible Driver of Food Insecurity: Evidence from 27 Sites in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” American Journal of Human Biology https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23309
  • Beckner, Sydney*, Wendy Jepson, Christian Brannstrom, and John Tracy (2019) “‘What You Have Is a Very Poor Region and a Very Rich Buyer’: Social Perspectives on Urban Water Security and Groundwater Transfers in Central Texas” Society & Natural Resources, 32:11, 1222-1238, https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1648709
  • Jepson, W., Amber Wutich, and Leila Harris. (2019) “Water-Security Capabilities and the Human Right to Water.” In Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus (Eds.), Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water. Routledge Earthscan, New York and London, pages 84-98.
  • Young, Sera, Godfred Boeteng, Torsten Neilands, Josh Miller, Shalean Collins, Alexandra Brewis, Ed Frongillo, Wendy Jepson, Hugo Melgar-Quinoes, Roseanne Schuster, Justin Stoler, Amber Wutich (2019). “A Protocol for the Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Household Water Insecurity Across Cultures: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) scale” British Medical Journal Open 9 (1) bmjopen-2018-023558; https://10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023558
  • Wutich, A., J. Budds, Jepson, L. Harris, E. Adams, A. Brewis, L. Cronk, C. DeMyers, K. Maes, T. Marley, J. Miller, A. Pearson, A. Rosinger, R. Schuster, J. Stoler, C. Staddon, P. Wiessner, C. Workman, S.L. Young. (2018) “Household Water Sharing: A Review of Water Gifts, Exchanges, and Transfers across Cultures.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water https://10.1002/wat2.1309
  • Audrey Joslin* and Wendy Jepson (2018) “Constructing Territory and Authority through Market-based Conservation in Ecuador’s Andes” Geoforum 91:10-20 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.016
  • Bruno, Tianna* and Wendy Jepson. (2018) “Market Environmental Justice: EPA Environmental Justice Showcase Community Project in Port Arthur, Texas” Local Environment 23 (3) 276-292
  • Wutich, A. Jessica Budds, Emma Norman, Wendy Jepson, Kathleen O’Reilly, Sameer H. Shah, Leila Harris, Jamie Shinn, and Sera Young (2017) “Advancing Methods for Research on Household Water Insecurity: Studying Entitlements and Capabilities, Socio-cultural dynamics, and Political Processes, Institutions and Governance” Water Security 1(2)
  • Jepson, Wendy, Jessica Budds, Emma Norman, Amber Wutich, Kathleen O’Reilly, Sameer H. Shah, Leila Harris, Jamie Shinn, and Sera Young (2017) “Advancing Water Security for Human Development: A Relational Perspective” Water Security 1(1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2017.07.001
  • Jepson, Wendy, Amber Wutich, Godfred Boeteng, Shalean Collins, and Sera Young. (2017) “Progress in Household Water Insecurity Metrics: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective in the Social Sciences” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water 4(3) https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1214
  • Jepson, Wendy and Emily Vandewalle* (2016) "Household Water Insecurity in the Global North: A Study of Rural and Peri-urban Settlements on the Texas-Mexico Border" The Professional Geographer 68 (1) 66-81 https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2015.1028324

   

  HWISE CONSORTIUM AUTHORSHIP

  • Consortium authorship represents the role of co-authors in the research design of original study, data collection as site PI, and contributor to the overall manuscript.  Consortium authorship conveys same responsibility for content as named authorship.
  • Stoler, J., A. Pearson, C. Staddon, A. Wutich, E. Mack, A. Brewis, A. Rosinger and HWISE Consortium. (2020) Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low-and middle-income countries Science of the Total Environment (Jepson HWISE Consortium Author) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135881
  • Schuster R., Butler M., Wutich A., Miller J., Young S., and HWISE Consortium. (2020). “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23357  (Jepson HWISE Consortium Author)
  • Alexandra Brewis, Asher Rosinger, Amber Wutich, Ellis Adams, Lee Cronk, Amber Pearson, Cassandra Workman, Sera Young, and the HWISE Consortium* (2019) Water Sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of inter-household water transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Accepted for publication in Economic Anthropology doi: https://10.1002/sea2.12143 (Jepson HWISE Consortium Author)