Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P)
Faculty
The Environmental Science & Policy core faculty members maintain active and varied research programs. They also provide professional services as consultants, journal editors, board directors, or committee members for a wide range of organizations outside the university. The high degree of outside involvement creates opportunities for student projects, internships, and subsequent employment. The core faculty do most of the student advising and research supervision.
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
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
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
Barbara Goldoftas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Research Interests/Specialization: Environmental epidemiology, urban environmental health, and social epidemiology
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
Jennie 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
Stephen McCauley, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Research Interests/Specialization:Sustainable community development, environmental planning and governance, energy and climate policy, sustainability in higher education, transdisciplinarity and action research.
Adjunct Faculty
Charles Agosta, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Physics
Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Professor, School of Geography
Susan Foster, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Karen Frey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Frederick Greenaway, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman of Chemistry
David Hibbett, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Dominik Kulakowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Todd Livdahl, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Sciences for Development and Environment Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Geographic Information Sciences for Development and Environment
Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Deborah Robertson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
John Rogan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Joseph Sarkis, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations and Environmental Management
Heather Wiatrowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Adjunct Faculty in Chemistry
Christopher A. Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Part-time Faculty
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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
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
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Ana Monteiro
(ES&P '07)
Ana Monteiro now works in Cape Verde with InfraCo, an infrastructure development company that promotes socially responsible projects, primarily in Africa. Building upon her ES&P final M.A. project that focused on renewable energy in Africa.
The Cabéolica Wind Project is developing four wind farms on four different islands in order to diversify the energy matrix of the country and make Cape Verde one of the leading African countries in terms of wind energy capacity.