Lisa Sideris is a professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the ethical significance of natural processes and how environmental values are captured or occluded by perspectives from religion and the sciences. Her books include Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection; Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World; and the edited collection Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Indiana University.