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Magda Tsaneva

Dr. Tsaneva received a B.A. from Colby College in 2007 and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2015. She has been at Clark since 2015. Dr. Tsaneva is an applied microeconomist with a focus on development economics. Her research examines how various government policies and unexpected shocks impact mental health, early marriage/pregnancy, and…
Nigel Brissett

Dr. Brissett’s research focuses on how contemporary educational policies impact socio-economic opportunities in “developing” countries, particularly those of the post-colonial Caribbean, as well as other states around the world. His current work analyzes the intersection of neo-liberal principles and post-colonial social welfare policies, and the results that ensue. Dr. Brissett’s research is especially attentive to…
Denise Humphreys Bebbington

Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (formerly IDCE) at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is Co-director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resources Extraction and Society at Clark University (Extractives@Clark) and former director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her research has…
Philip Bergmann

My research takes an integrative approach to studying the evolution and diversification of functional morphological systems. I am particularly interested in how form (phenotype) and function are related, and how these relationships are context-dependent in terms of habitat use and biotic interactions. Much recent work indicates that these relationships are complex, and understanding them is…
Ramon Borges-Mendez

Ramón Borges-Méndez, PhD, born in Puerto Rico, has worked in the US, Latin America, and South Asia. He is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Community Development and Food Systems at the Dept of Sustainabilty and Social Justice at Clark University (Worcester, MA), where he is coordinator of the undergraduate Urban Studies concentration. He teaches…
Mark Davidson

Mark Davidson is an urban geographer with an international reputation for his research on gentrification, urban theory, municipal finance, and urban sustainability. He has published in high-impact social science journals and published edited collections with SUNY Press and Sage. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation and the International Olympic Committee. Prior to joining Clark University,…
Robert Johnston

Dr. Johnston received a B.A. from Williams College in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 1996. He has been at Clark since 2008. He is Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Professor of Economics. Professor Johnston’s research interests include economic valuation, human-natural interactions and behaviors, benefit transfer and…
Anita Fabos

Anita H. Fábos is an anthropologist who studies how people who experience displacement and forced migration think about and organize their mobile lives. She has lived, worked, and conducted research together with diasporic Sudanese Muslims and other forced migrants in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Her research spans ethnic, racial, and national projects…
Christopher Williams

Dr. Williams is a professor of earth system science within Clark’s School of Geography and is director of the environmental sciences program at Clark. His expertise is in terrestrial ecosystems, global environmental change, and climate change. He and his team engage in foundational research science on the climate impacts of forests. By combining state-of-the-art satellite…
James McCarthy

Professor James McCarthy earned a B.A. in English and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Geography in 2011, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Geography at Penn State University (2000-2011). Professor McCarthy’s areas of…