- Kiran Asher
- David Bell
- Ramón Borges-Mendéz
- Halina Szejnwald Brown
- Nigel Brissett
- Timothy J. Downs
- Anita Häusermann Fábos
- Jude Fernando
- William F. Fisher
- Ellen Foley
- Barbara Goldoftas
- Liza Grandia
- Ken MacLean
- Abigail Mechtenberg
- Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
- Samuel J. Ratick
- Laurie Ross
- Marianne Sarkis
- Jennie Stephens
- Mark Tigan
- Research Professors
- Denise Humphreys Bebbington
- Joseph de Rivera
- Cynthia Enloe
- Richard Ford
- Robert Goble
- Heidi Larson
- Barbara Thomas-Slayter
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IDCE Faculty
Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin American studies
David Bell, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Practice - International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Education, empowerment, social transformation and community development
Ramón Borges-Mendéz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Development and Planning and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Community Development and Planning
Research Interests/Specialization: Urban and regional economic development, labor markets and workforce development, political economy, Latin America, Latinos in the U.S. and immigration, governance, non-profits and institutional development, research methods
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Nigel O.M. Brissett, Ed.D.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
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Research Interests/Specialization: Educational policy and leadership; globalization and education; higher educational access and equity; critical policy analysis; postcolonial studies; critical theory; public policy
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Halina Szejnwald Brown, Ph.D.
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Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
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Research Interests/Specialization: Socio-technical system innovation in sustainability transition, use of information disclosure as a regulatory instrument for sustainability, corporate accountability and governance, social learning and institutional theory, comparative international environmental policy, environmental public health policy, environmental toxicology, management of risks from toxic substances
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Timothy J. Downs, D. Env.
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Research Interests/Specialization: Environmental science and engineering, integrated capacity building for sustainable development, natural resource management, human-environment interaction
Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Ethnicity and race, gender, urban refugees, Sudanese immigrants and refugees, Middle Eastern immigration and naturalisation policies, transnationalism and citizenship, transnational Islam, narratives of exile, Hungarian refugees
Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Economic development and political economy, with emphasis on non-profit organizations, environment, gender, and child labor, particularly in South Asia
William J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of International Development and Social Change
IDCE Director
Research Interests/Specialization: Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia
Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa
Barbara Goldoftas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Research Interests/Specialization: Environmental epidemiology, urban environmental health, and social epidemiology
Liza Grandia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Political economy and corporate capitalism, the commons, political ecology and the politics of biodiversity conservation, peasants and agrarian change, Mesoamerica and the Q'eqchi' Maya people, DR-CAFTA and the Puebla to Panama Plan, indigenous knowledge and cultural survival, the global cancer epidemic
Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: States and state-effects, political violence, extractive industries, displacement and irregular migration, humanitarian interventions, (late- and post-) socialism, legal regimes, science and technology studies, and comparative cartographies
Abigail R. Mechtenberg, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Policy; Research Scientist, Marsh Institute
Research Interests/Specialization: HealSustainable energy systems; applied physics; physics education; East Africa; Uganda; poverty eradication
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
Research Interests/Specialization: Health applications of GIS and remote sensing, environmental justice and GIS, spatial statistics, urban applications of remote sensing, land-use change and environmental degradation
Samuel J. Ratick, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy and Geography
Research Interests/Specialization: Decision analysis in environmental assessment and management, spatial analysis, quantitative and dynamic modeling, environmental policy, coastal hazards from climate change, pollution prevention in companies, locating hazardous facilities
Laurie Ross, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning
IDCE Assistant Director
Research Interests/Specialization: Social justice youth development, community based participatory research
Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Medical and demographic anthropology, social networks analysis in health research, disparities in obstetric care among refugees and immigrants, race and development, gender and health particularly in East and Horn of Africa, Lebanese demographic shifts and re-conceptualizations of womanhood
Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy
Research Interests/Specialization: Sustainability science, technologies and policies to mitigate climate change, energy technology innovation, CO2 capture and storage, renewable energy, universities as change agent for sustainability
Mark Tigan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Practice - Community Development and Planning
Research Interests/Specialization: Community economics, citizen participation, non-profit governance, sizing public benefits with governmental subsidies, linkages between employment and housing
Research Faculty
Denise Bebbington, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Socio-Environmental Movement Organizations and Networks, Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Justice, Development Administration, Non-Governmental Organizations, Institutional Development, Gender and Development, Community-based Management of Natural Resources.
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Emotional structures and motivational dynamics, believed-in imaginings, emotional climates and cultures of peace, public policy and the organization of movements for peace and justice
Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: The interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Resource trends and resource management in Africa, community participation and sustainable development, conflict mediation, community-based planning, monitoring and evaluation
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Physics, energy studies, atmospheric transport, risk analysis and management
Heidi Larson, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Risk analysis, risk communications, public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and child health and vaccines, particularly focusing on the socio-cultural and political determinants of health, including the role of religion and belief systems
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations
Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate faculty teach IDCE classes and supervise research activities. Among them:
Adjunct Faculty
Charles Agosta, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Physics
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Mary-Ellen Boyle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management
Mark Davidson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Geography
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Director, Peace Studies Program
Eric DeMeulenaere, Ph.D.
Title Unavailable, Department of Education
Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Professor, School of Geography
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Susan Foster, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Karen Frey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Donna Gallo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Management
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Frederick Greenaway, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman of Chemistry
David Hibbett, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science
Dominik Kulakowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Todd Livdahl, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Geography
Sarah Michaels, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Education
James T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Geography
Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
Ravi Perry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Geography; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Active Pedagogy
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Amy Richter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History
Deborah Robertson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
John Rogan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of History
Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology Director, International Studies Stream
Joseph Sarkis, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations and Environmental Management
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Heather Wiatrowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Adjunct Faculty in Chemistry
Christopher A. Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Part-time Faculty
Denise Bebbington, Ph.D.
Adjunct Lecturer, International Development and Social Change
Nigel Brissett, Ed.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, International Development and Social Change
Dodi Swope
Adjunct Instructor, Community Development and Planning
Sarah Woodside, M.A.
Adjunct Lecturer, International Development and Social Change
Honglei Zhu, Ph.D.
Lead Programmer, Clark Labs
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Jennie Stephens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Jennie Stephens’ research, teaching, and community engagement focuses in various ways on accelerating a societal transition toward sustainability, with a particular focus on climate change mitigation. Stephens has particular interest in energy technologies with potential to contribute to a stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. She focuses on understanding non-technical factors influencing the deployment of renewable energy, particularly wind power, and also in understanding the social dimensions of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.