Faculty and Administration

OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION

Peter Salovey, President of the University

Scott Strobel, Provost of the University

Ingrid C. Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean

Mark S. Ashton, Senior Associate Dean of the Forest School

Bradford S. Gentry, Senior Associate Dean of Professional Practice

Peter A. Raymond, Senior Associate Dean of Research

Dorceta E. Taylor, Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Julie B. Zimmerman, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Danielle Dailey, Chief of Staff and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

Kevin Doyle, Executive Director, Office of Career and Professional Development

Andrés Fernández, Associate Dean of Student Affairs

Kristin Floyd, Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Services

Wendi Hicks, Director of Enrollment Management and Financial Aid

Robert Javonillo, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Denny Kalenzaga, Director of Finance and Administration

Melanie Quigley, Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives

Sara Smiley Smith, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Research, and Sustainability

Paige Stein, Executive Director of Strategic Communications

Board of Permanent Officers

Peter Salovey, Ph.D., President of the University

Scott Strobel, Ph.D., Provost of the University

Ingrid C. Burke, Ph.D., Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; and Professor of Ecosystem Ecology

Mark S. Ashton, Ph.D., Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; and Senior Associate Dean of the Forest School

Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D., Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health; and Professor of Environmental Health, School of Public Health

Gaboury Benoit, Ph.D., Grinstein Class of 1954 Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Graeme P. Berlyn, Ph.D., E. H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management; Professor of Anatomy and Physiology of Trees

Mark A. Bradford, Ph.D., Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology 

Craig R. Brodersen, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology; and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Marian R. Chertow, Ph.D., Professor of Industrial Environmental Management; Professor, School of Management; Director, Program on Solid Waste Policy; and Director, Center for Industrial Ecology

Liza S. Comita, Ph.D., Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology; and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture

Michael R. Dove, Ph.D., Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Natural History; and Coordinator, YSE/Anthropology Degree Program

Daniel C. Esty, J.D., Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy; Clinical Professor, Law School; Professor, School of Management; Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; and Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy 

Justin Farrell, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Department of Sociology

Eli Fenichel, Ph.D., Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics

Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics; and Professor, School of Management and Department of Economics

Timothy G. Gregoire, Ph.D., J.P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. Professor of Forest Management

Matthew J. Kotchen, Ph.D., Professor of Economics; Professor, School of Management 

William Lauenroth, Ph.D., Professor of the Environment

Xuhui Lee, Ph.D., Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology; and Director, Yale Center for Earth Observation

Robert O. Mendelsohn, Ph.D., Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy; Professor of Economics; and Professor, School of Management

Peter A. Raymond, Ph.D., Professor of Ecosystem Ecology; and Professor of Geology and Geophysics; Senior Associate Dean of Research; and Director of Doctoral Studies

James E. Saiers, Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology; and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Oswald J. Schmitz, Ph.D., Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Karen Seto, Ph.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science; and Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology

David K. Skelly, Ph.D., Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Dorceta E. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Justice; Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Gerald Torres, J.D., Professor of Environmental Justice

John P. Wargo, Ph.D., Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Politics; and Chair, Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program

Julie B. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Green Engineering; Professor of Environmental Engineering; Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; and Deputy Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

Faculty Emeriti

William R. Burch, Jr., Ph.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor Emeritus of Natural Resource Management; and Senior Research Scientist

Susan G. Clark, Ph.D., Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Professor Adjunct Emeritus of Wildlife Ecology and Policy

Gordon Geballe, Ph.D., Lecturer Emeritus of Urban Ecology

John C. Gordon, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor Emeritus of the Environment

Thomas E. Graedel, Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Industrial Ecology; and Senior Research Scientist

Chadwick Dearing Oliver, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor Emeritus of the Environment

William H. Smith, Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Forest Biology

Ladder Faculty

Paulo Brando, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecosystem Carbon Capture

Nyeema Harris, Ph.D., Knobloch Family Associate Professor of Wildlife and Land Conservation

Sparkle Malone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Carbon Capture

Narasimha Rao, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Energy Systems

Luke Sanford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance

Yuan Yao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems

Resident Teaching Faculty

Paul T. Anastas, Ph.D., Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment; Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering; Professor, School of Public Health; Professor in the Practice, School of Management; Senior Research Scientist in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Lecturer, Department of Chemistry 

Shimon C. Anisfeld, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry

Peter Boyd, B.A., Lecturer

Carol Carpenter, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Natural Resource Social Science

Amity Doolittle, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer II in Political Ecology

Marlyse C. Duguid, Ph.D., Thomas G. Siccama Senior Lecturer in Environmental Field Studies and Research Scientist

L. Kealoha Freidenburg, Ph.D., Lecturer

Bradford S. Gentry, J.D., Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy, School of the Environment and School of Management; Senior Associate Dean of Professional Practice; Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment; and Director, Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment

Robert Klee, J.D., Ph.D., Lecturer

Simon A. Queenborough, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist; and Mrs. John Musser Director, Tropical Resources Institute

Jonathan D. Reuning-Scherer, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science

Research Faculty

Giuseppe Amatulli, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Ashley Bell, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Madeline Carins-Murphy, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Sir Peter Crane, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

Matthew Goldberg, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Seulkee Heo, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

J. Nicoloas Hernandez-Aguilera, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Darren Lee, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer; and Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

Reid J. Lifset, M.S., M.P.P.M., Research Scholar; Associate Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program; and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Industrial Ecology

Jennifer Marlon, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

Alessio Miatto, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Florencia Montagnini, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist; and Director, Program in Tropical Forestry of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry

Predrag Petrovic, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Mizanur Rahman, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Lars Ratjen, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Barbara Reck, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

Jiyoung Son, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Talbot Trotter III, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Stephen Wood, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Lecturer

Non-Resident teaching faculty

Jessica Bacher, J.D., Lecturer

Todd Cort, Ph.D., Lecturer

Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Mary Beth Decker, Ph.D., Lecturer

Patrick Gonzales-Rogers, J.D., Lecturer

Elena Grewal, Ph.D., Lecturer

Daniel Gross, M.E.M., M.B.A., Lecturer

J. Morgan Grove, Ph.D., Lecturer

Walker Holmes, M.E.M., Lecturer

Stephanie Hanes Wilson, B.A., Lecturer

Lawrence Kelly, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ph.D., Lecturer

David Kooris, M.A., Lecturer

Melissa Kops, M.A., Lecturer

Sarah Kruse, Ph.D., Lecturer

Sarah McGowan, B.A., Lecturer

Fabian Michelangeli, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

David Pilz, J.D., Lecturer

E. Ian Robinson, Ph.D., Lecturer

Andrew Schwarz, M.S.T., M.F.S., M.B.A., Lecturer

Deborah Spalding, M.A., M.B.A., M.F., Lecturer

C. Dana Tomlin, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Amy Vedder, Ph.D., Lecturer

A. William Weber, Ph.D., Lecturer

Secondary Appointments

Susan Biniaz, J.D., Lecturer, Jackson Institute; and Visiting Lecturer, Law School

Ruth Elaine Blake, Ph.D., Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; and Professor of Chemical Engineering

Adalgisa (Gisella) Caccone, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Senior Research Scientist in Microbial Diseases

Todd Cort, Ph.D., Lecturer in Sustainability, School of Management

Nicole C. Deziel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences), School of Public Health

Menachem Elimelech, Ph.D., Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Erika Edwards, Ph.D.,Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Botany at the Peabody Museum; Director of Marsh Botanical Gardens

Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology

Drew R. Gentner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Walter Jetz, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jaehong Kim, Ph.D., Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Douglas A. Kysar, J.D., Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Law School

Stephen Latham, Ph.D., J.D., Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Senior Research Scholar, Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Lecturer, Law School, School of Management, and Department of Political Science

Joseph G. Manning, Ph.D., William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History; and Senior Research Scholar, Law School

William Nordhaus, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Economics

Paul Sabin, Ph.D., Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History; and Professor of American Studies

Eric Sargis, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology; and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D., Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies; and Professor of Anthropology

A. Carla Staver, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Vasilis Vasiliou, Ph.D., Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology; and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Harvey Weiss, Ph.D., Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ernesto Zedillo, Ph.D., Professor in the Field of International Economics and International Relations; and Frederick Iseman ’74 Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization