Robert Traer holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, a J.D. from the School of Law of the University of California at Davis, and a D.Min. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is a faculty member of the Dominican University of California. Robert Traer teaches ethics at Dominican University of California. 

With Harlan Stelmach. He is the author of two previous editions of Doing.  Environmental Ethics (2008 and 2013) and other books on ethics and religion.