Affiliated Faculty

  • Shimon Anisfeld, Yale School of the Environment, shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu: human impacts on rivers and wetlands in coastal watersheds
  • Mark Ashton, Yale School of the Environment, mark.ashton@yale.edu: silviculture, natural forest regeneration, agroforestry, tropical and temperate forests
  • Ned Blackhawk, Yale Department of History and American Studies, ned.blackhawk@yale.edu: Native American Studies and Native American student support
  • Michelle Bell, Yale Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of the Environment, michelle.bell@yale.edu: air pollution and human health by integrating several disciplines, such as environmental engineering and epidemiology
  • Mark Bradford, Yale School of the Environment, mark.bradford@yale.edu: ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling under global change
  • Derek Briggs, Yale Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, derek.briggs@yale.edu: evolutionary significance of fossils
  • Craig Brodersen, Yale School of the Environment, craig.brodersen@yale.edu: plant physiological ecology, implications of environmental conditions that push plants beyond their physiological thresholds.
  • Gary W. Brudvig, Yale Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, gary.brudvig@yale.edu: green chemistry, biophysical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry
  • Carol Carpenter, Yale Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment, carol.carpenter@yale.edu: the relationship between human societies and the environment, sustainable development, agriculture and natural resources
  • Surjit Chandhoke, Yale Residential College Dean, Trumbull College; Lecturer & Research Scientist, MCDB, surjit.chandhoke@yale.edu.
  • Mary Beth Decker, Yale School of the Environment, marybeth.decker@yale.edu; coastal and marine ecosystems
  • Michael Dove, Yale Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment, michael.dove@yale.edu: sustainable development and resource use, biodiversity and human society, resource-based linkages of local communities to global systems, the study of developmental and environmental institutions, discourses and movements, the sociology of resource-related societies
  • Menachem Elimelech, Yale Departments of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering and Yale School of the Environment, menachem.elimelech@yale.edu: physicochemical and biophysical processes in engineered and natural environmental systems, water, sanitation, and public health in developing countries
  • Daniel Esty, Yale School of the Environment, Yale Law School, and  Yale School of Management, daniel.esty@yale.edu: environmental and energy policy.
  • Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Yale Department of Anthropology, eduardo.fernandez-duque@yale.edu: evolution and maintenance of social systems, specifically mechanisms that maintain social monogamy and the role that sexual selection
  • Kealoha Freidenburg, Yale School of  the Environment, kealoha.freidenburg@yale.edu: sustainability, agroecology, urban environments, research methods
  • Michael Fotos,  Yale Department of Political Science, michael.fotos@yale.edu: political theory and policy analysis, coal mining regulation, voter turnout, and ecosystem services.
  • Gordon Geballe, Yale School of the Environment, gordon.geballe@yale.edu: urban ecology, climate policy and ecotourism
  • Timothy Gregoire, Yale School of the Environment, timothy.gregoire@yale.edu: statistics, natural resource management, forestry, carbon estimation
  • Benedict Kiernan, Yale Department of History, benedict.kiernan@yale.edu: environmental history, genocide
  • Matthew Kotchen, Yale School of the Environment, matthew.kotchen@yale.edu: environment and public economics, green markets
  • Walter Jetz, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, walter.jetz@yale.edu: biogeography, community ecology, landscape ecology, macroecology, global change, evolution, biodiversity informatics and conservation
  • William Lauenroth, Yale School of the Environment, william.lauenroth@yale.edu: plant population and community ecology; ecohydrology, ecosystem ecology, and the effects of projected climate change on plant communities and ecosystems
  • Xuihui Lee, Yale School of the Environment, xuihui.lee@yale.edu: meteorology, air quality, remote sensing, carbon sequestration
  • Alan Mikhail, Yale Department of History, alan.mikhail@yale.edu: environmental history of the Middle East, animals, irrigation
  • Charles Musser, Professor American Studies, Film & Media Studies and Theater Studies, charles.musser@yale.edu: film and media historiography, American cinema and documentary film
  • Jeffery Park, Yale Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, jeffrey.park@yale.edu: earthquakes, climate cycles, aerosols and cloud formation
  • Peter Perdue, Yale Department of History, peter.perdue@yale.edu: modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, agricultural development and environmental history
  • Stephen Pitti, Yale Department of History and of American Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, stephen.pitti@yale.edu: Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Western History, 20th-century immigration, civil rights, and related subjects
  • Alan Plattus, Yale School of Architecture, allan.plattus@yale.edu: history of cities, urbanism, urban design
  • David Post, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, david.post@yale.edu: community and ecosystem ecology, food-web structure in aquatic systems, environmental change, landscape linkages, eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Jeffrey Powell, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, jeffrey.powell@yale.edu: conservation and genetics
  • Daniel Prober, Yale Department of Applied Physics, daniel.prober@yale.edu; energy and technology
  • Peter Raymond, Yale School of the Environment, peter.raymond@yale.edu: carbon and nitrogen cycles within aquatic systems
  • Elihu Rubin, Yale School of Architecture, elihu.rubin@yale.edu: city planning, cultural landscapes, urban transportation
  • Paul Sabin, Yale Department of History, paul.sabin@yale.edu: environmental history, energy politics, natural resource development in the Western US
  • James E. Saiers, Yale Department of Chemical Engineering and Yale School of the Environment, james.saiers@yale.edu: hydrology, geochemistry, chemical engineering, circulation of water and the movementof waterborne chemicals in surface and subsurface environments
  • Oswald Schmitz, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Yale School of the Environment, oswald.schmitz@yale.edu: terrestrial food-webs, natural system resilience, how plant-herbivore interactions are mediated by carnivores and soil nutrient levels
  • Karen Seto, Yale School of the Environment, karen.seto@yale.edu: dynamics of urban land-use change
  • Shivi Sivaramakrishnan, Yale Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment, kalyanakrishnan.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu: environmental history, political anthropology, cultural geography, rural development
  • David Skelly, Yale Department of Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Yale School of the Environment, david.skelly@yale.edu: ecology and dynamics and fate of animal populations and communities around two main themes- emerging diseases and population responses to dynamic landscapes
  • Carla Staver, Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, carla.staver@yale.edu: empirical and theoretical approaches to explore the dynamics and distributions of biomes, with a special focus on tropical savanna and forest
  • Peter Swenson, Yale Department of Political Science and Institute for Social and Policy Studies, peter.swenson@yale.edu: comparative political economy of labor markets, social welfare, health care, and environmental politics in Europe and the United States.
  • John Wargo, Yale School of the Environment, john.wargo@yale.edu: environment and public health, children’s exposure to pollutants
  • John Warner, Yale Department of History of Medicine (Chair), American Studies, and History, john.warner@yale.edu: cultural and social history of medicine in the U.S. from the early19th century to the present, professional identity, education, clinical practice, the visual cultures of medicine, and transnational and transcultural comparison
  • Michael Warner, Yale Department of English and American Studies, Michael.warner@yale.edu: the early history of evangelicalism in America, and climate change
  • Marta Wells, Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, marta.wells@yale.edu: Insect behavior and Evolution. Mating signal and speciation in Neuropteran insects.
  • Harvey Weiss, Yale Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Anthropology, harvey.weiss@yale.edu: Mesopotamia, early agriculture, cities and empires, paleoclimatology and environmental change
  • Carl Zimmer, science writer and Yale College lecturer, carl@carlzimmer.com: writing about science and the environment
  • Julie Zimmerman, Yale Department of Chemical Engineering and Yale School of the Environment ,julie.zimmerman@yale.edu: green engineering, environmentally benign design and manufacturing, the fate and impacts of anthropogenic compounds in the environment, water treatment technology in the developing world