Faculty

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William F. Fisher, Ph.D.

Director of IDCE
Professor of International Development and Social Change

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

Kiran Asher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the International Development and Social Change Graduate Program

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

David I. Bell, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change

Education, empowerment, social transformation and community development

Halina Szejnwald Brown, Ph.D.

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

Sustainable technologies, environmental policy, toxicology, environmental health, corporate social responsibility

Miriam Chion, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning

Urban and economic development, community organizing and participation, urban growth, comparative international policies, Latin America

Timothy J. Downs, D.Env.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Policy

Environmental science and engineering, integrated capacity building for sustainable development, natural resource management, human-environment interaction

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

Ellen Foley, Ph.D.

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

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

Robert Goble, Ph.D.

Research Professor
Director of George Perkins Marsh Institute

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

Liza Grandia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change

Political ecology, peasants and agrarian change, conservation and sustainable development, Mesoamerica, globalizations (corporate versus grassroots), indigenous knowledge and cultural survival

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

Ken MacLean, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change

Ethnographic studies of violence, governance and governmentality, (late and post-) socialism, legal regimes, anthropology and history, science and technology studies

Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Sciences 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

Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geographic Information Sciences for Development and Environment
Coordinator of the Geographic Information Sciences for Development and Environment Graduate Program

Geographic information science, quantitative environmental modeling, land change science, spatial statistics

Samuel J. Ratick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science & Policy

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 Community Development and Planning Graduate Program

Participatory action techniques, urban community planning, community and youth development

Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.

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

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.

Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning

Community economics, neighborhood revitalization, intergovernmental financing techniques and strategies, participatory planning and development

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Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe Ph.D.

IDCE Research Professor

Impacts of militarization and globalization upon the lives of women worldwide, feminist politics

Richard Ford Ph.D.

IDCE Research Professor

Resource management, participation, African history

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

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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