Affiliated Faculty

  • Shimon C. Anisfeld

    Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry
  • Mark S. Ashton

    Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School; Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Director of Yale Forests
  • Michelle Bell

    Senior Associate Dean of Research and Director of Doctoral Studies; Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health
  • Ned Blackhawk

    Howard R. Lamar Professor of History
  • Mark Bradford

    E.H. Harriman Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology
  • Derek Briggs

    G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Curator, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • Craig Brodersen

    EVST Program Co-Chair
    Professor, YSE
  • Gary Brudvig

    Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
  • Mary Beth Decker

    Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Lecturer in School of the Environment
  • Michael Dove

    Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology Peabody Museum; Co-Coordinator, Combined YSE/Anthropology Doctoral Program
  • Daniel Esty

    Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, jointly with Yale Law School; Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy
  • Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

    Professor of Anthropology
  • Michael Fotos

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Essay Instructor
    Lecturer, Political Science
  • Kealoha Freidenburg

    Director of Undergraduate Studies for BS Program, Senior Essay Instructor
    Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment
  • Gordon Geballe

    Emeritus Lecturer in Urban Ecology
  • Timothy Gregoire

    J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Forest Management
  • Walter Jetz

    Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Forestry and Environmental Studies
  • Ben Kiernan

    A. Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History; Founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program and the Genocide Studies Program, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
  • Matthew Kotchen

    Langdon K. Storm Professor of Economics
  • William Lauenroth

    Joseph F. Cullman 3rd ’35 Professor
  • Xuhui Lee

    Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Climate Science
  • Alan Mikhail

    Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University
  • Charles Musser

    Professor of American Studies, Film & Media Studies, and Theater Studies
  • Jeffrey Park

    Senior Essay Instructor
    Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences
  • Peter Perdue

    Professor Emeritus of History
  • Stephen Pitti

    Professor of History and of American Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration
  • Alan Plattus

    Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Founding Director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop and Center for Urban Design Research
  • David Post

    Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Jeffrey Powell

    Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Daniel Prober

    Professor of Applied Physics, Physics & Electrical Engineering
  • Paul Sabin

    EVST Program Co-Chair, Senior Essay Instructor
    Professor, History and American Studies
  • 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
  • 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