Yale College Environmental Studies Associated 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

Gaboury Benoit, Yale Department of Environmental Engineering and Yale School of the Environment, gaboury.benoit@yale.edu: behavior, transport and fate of chemicals in natural waters, soils, sediments and biota

Graeme Berlyn, Yale School of the Environment, graeme.berlyn@yale.edu: morphology and physiology of trees and forests in relation to environmental stress

Mark Bradford, Yale School of the Environment, mark.bradford@yale.edu: ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling under global change

Derek Briggs, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics, derek.briggs@yale.edu: evolutionary significance of fossils

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.

Marian Chertow, Yale School of the Environment, marian.chertow@yale.edu: industrial ecology, business and environmental issues, waste management, environmental technology innovation

Mary Beth Decker, Yale School of the Environment, marybeth.decker@yale.edu; coastal and marine ecosystems

Michael Donoghue, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Yale School of the Environment michael.donoghue@yale.edu: phylogenetics of plants

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

Marlyse Duguid, Yale School of the Environment, marlyse.duguid@yale.edu:  plant diversity and composition as it relates to human land use and disturbance. Current focus on temperate forest understory plant communities.

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

L. 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

John Grim, Yale Divinity School and Yale School of the Environment, john.grim@yale.edu: religions and ecology, cosmology, climate change

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

Stephen Latham, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, stephen.latham@yale.edu: health law and bioethics; legal regulation of novel medical technologies, human and animal research; philosophical argumentation in bioethics

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

Robert Mendelsohn, Yale Department of Economics, Yale School of Management, and Yale School of the Environment, robert.mendelsohn@yale.edu: air pollution damages, green house gases, climate change, valuation of ecosystems

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 Geology & Geophysics, 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

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Department of Political Science and Yale Law School, susan.rose-ackerman@yale.edu: corruption, public policy and administration, environmental policy

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

James Scott, Yale Departments of Anthropology and Political Science, james.scott@yale.edu: political economy, agrarian studies

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

Brian Skinner, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics, brian.skinner@yale.edu: mineral deposits, natural resources, earth system science

Catherine Skinner, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics, catherine.skinner@yale.edu: biominerals and orthopaedics

Ronald B. Smith, Yale Departments of Geology & Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering and Yale School of the Environment, ronald.smith@yale.edu: atmospheric dynamics and physics, regional climate, remote sensing

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

Stephen Stearns, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, stephen.stearns@yale.edu: history and evolution, evolutionary medicine, genomics

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.

C. Dana Tomlin, Yale School of the Environment, charles.tomlin@yale.edu: ArcGIS, geographic modeling

Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Divinity School and Yale School of the Environment, maryevelyn.tucker@yale.edu: religions and the environment

John Wargo, Yale Department of Political Science and 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

Robert Wyman, Yale Department of Molecular, Cellula & Developmental Biology, robert.wyman@yale.edu: intercellular communication, molecular signaling, population growth

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