International Development, Community, and Environment Faculty

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Kiran Asher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change

Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin American studies

David I. Bell, Ed.D.

Associate Professor of Practice - International Development and Social Change
IDCE Assistant Director

Education, empowerment, social transformation and community development

Ramón Borges-Mendéz, Ph.D.

Visiting Associate Professor of Community Development and Planning

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

Halina Szejnwald Brown, Ph.D.

Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Program Director of the Environmental Science Undergraduate Major
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy

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

Henry Bulley, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment and Geography

Water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing, land use and land cover change at rural-urban fringe, landscape ecology applications to sustainable development, machine learning (classification tree) applications, glacier lakes, and climate change

Timothy J. Downs, D.Env.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

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

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

Economic development and political economy, with emphasis on non-profit organizations, environment, gender, and child labor, particularly in South Asia

William F. Fisher, Ph.D.

Professor of International Development and Social Change
IDCE Director

Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia

Ellen Foley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change

Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa

Barbara Goldoftas

Visiting Instructor of Environmental Science and Policy

Environmental epidemiology, urban environmental health, and social epidemiology

Liza Grandia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in International Development and Social Change

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

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

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

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

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
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Community Development and Planning

Social justice youth development, community based participatory research

Marianne Sarkis

Visiting Instructor of International Development and Social Change

Disparities in obstetric care, migration and identity, culture in clinical encounters, diasporic health, bioethics, demographic anthropology, Participatory Action Research (PAR), history of obstetrics, Somali history and culture, globalization and health, advocacy anthropology, Social Networks Analysis (SNA), rumors in health care, Arab culture and identity

Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy

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

Community economics, citizen participation, non-profit governance, sizing public benefits with governmental subsidies, linkages between employment and housing

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Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.

IDCE Research Professor

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

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

Physics, energy studies, atmospheric transport, risk analysis and management

Heidi Larson, Ph.D.

Associate Research Professor of International Development and Social Change

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

Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations

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Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty

Affiliate faculty teach IDCE classes and supervise research activities. Among them:

Charles Agosta, Ph.D.: experimental condensed matter physics, energy

Yuko Aoyama, Ph.D.: global economic change, technological innovation, and industrial organization

John Baker, Ph.D.: biology, ecology, aquatic ecosystems, life-form traits

Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.: urban anthropology, financial globalization, nationalism, gender

Lois Bruinooge, J.D. wetlands and tidelands protection, environmental enforcement, municipal conservation issues

Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.: peace and justice, social psychology

Patrick Derr, Ph.D.: philosophy, biomedical ethics, history and philosophy of science, ethical issues in risk analysis and management

J. Ronald Eastman, Ph.D.: geography, GIS, remote sensing, cartography

Jody Emel, Ph.D.: hydrology, resource/environmental geography, feminist theory

Odile Ferly, Ph.D.: Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective

Susan Foster, Ph.D.: ecology, evolutionary biology, population biology

Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.: resource economics, environmental policy, land use

Dominic Golding, Ph.D.: risk communication, evaluation of risk burdens

Beverly C. Grier, Ph.D.: African politics, international development

Susan Hanson, Ph.D.: urban and social geography, transportation, research methods, feminist geography

Dale Hattis, Ph.D.: quantitative risk assessment, pharmacokinetic modeling, carcinogenesis, biomarkers, interindividual variability

Donna Hicks, Ph.D.: conflict resolution, international development, sustainable econflict transformation

Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.: economic development, environmental and natural resource economics, political economy

Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.: cultural ecology, geography, arid lands management, land degradation

Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.: U.S. urban politics, suburban politics, housing policies, women and politics

Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.: land degradation, geomorphology, tropical agriculture

Todd Livdahl, Ph.D.: ecology, population biology

Deborah Martin, Ph.D.: urban/social/political geography, social movements, qualitative methods

James T. Murphy, Ph.D.: sustainable energy technologies, manufacturing systems, and land-use practices

Richard Peet, Ph.D.: political economy of development, social theory

Colin Polsky, Ph.D.: vulnerability analysis, human dimensions of environmental change, spatial statistics

Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Ph.D.: geographic information science, quantitative environmental modeling, land change science, spatial statistics

Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.: Latin American politics, democratic theory, comparative environmental politics

Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.: cultural/systems ecology, gender, forestry

John Rogan, Ph.D.: geographic information science, landscape ecology, land cover, change monitoring

Paul Ropp, Ph.D.: Chinese social and intellectual history

Robert Ross, Ph.D.: urban studies, political sociology, political economy, social policy

Joseph Sarkis, Ph.D.: operations management, environmentally conscious business practices

Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.: international relations, international organizations, international political economy

Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.: post-Soviet and East European politics, comparative politics, social movements and collective action, women’s studies

B. L. Turner, Ph.D.: cultural/human ecology, sustainability systems, land-cover and land-use change

Kristen Williams, Ph.D.: international relations theory, arms control and international security, nationalism and ethnic politics, U.S. foreign policy

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