Bilal Butt is a Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. His research sits at the intersection of environmental justice, health equity, and environmental geopolitics. His work centers on three sub-areas: (1) the environmental politics of life and death; (2) livelihood and ecological change under regimes of uncertainty in East African drylands, and (3) environmental and public health dynamics in the tropics. He is a faculty affiliate of the African Studies Center, the Department of Afro-American and African Studies, the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, the Michigan Institute for AI, Data Science and Society, and the Science, Technology, and Society Program. Dr. Butt has received the National Science Foundation Career Award for his research and the Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of American Geographers. He has received funding from other NSF programs, the Center for Global Health Equity, Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice, the University of Michigan, and various foundations. He is a two-time recipient of the University of Michigan's Superior Teaching Award. He has published in diverse journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Humanity. He teaches courses on Conservation Justice, Data Justice, Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, and Preparing for International Fieldwork. He directs the critical environmental politics research group, which brings together visiting scholars, community leaders, and undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholars from around the world to advance critical and applied research that contributes to environmental justice across contexts.