Faculty and Administration

OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION

Maurie McInnis, 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
Ken Gillingham, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Peter A. Raymond, Senior Associate Dean of Research
Danielle Dailey, Chief of Staff and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
Annise Dobson, Director of Research Programs
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, Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives
Paige Stein, Executive Director of Strategic Communications

Board of Permanent Officers

Maurie McInnis, 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, 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

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., Manufacturer’s Association Professor of Industrial Ecology; 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; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and 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; Professor, School of Management and Department of Economics; and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

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

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

William Lauenroth, Ph.D., Joseph F. Cullman 3rd ’35 Professor

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., Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry; 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 and 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 Sustainability

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 and Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Sustainability Initiative

Gerald Torres, J.D., Professor of Environmental Justice and Faculty Director, Yale Center for 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; Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions; and Deputy Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

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

Arianna Salazar Miranda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Science

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

Yuan Yao, Ph.D., Associate 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; Research Scientist; and Director of Research, The Yale Forests

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., Senior Lecturer

Simon A. Queenborough, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer; 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

Maya Almaraz, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Giuseppe Amatulli, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Ashley Bell, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Luke Meyer Browne, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

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

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

Annise Dobson, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist and Director of Research Programs

Matthew Goldberg, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Seulkee Heo, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D., Research Scientist

J. Nicoloas Hernandez-Aguilera, 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

Nataliia Lisitcyna, J.B., Associate Research Scientist

Leandro Maracahipes dos Santos, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Jennifer Marlon, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

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

Alex Munoz, LL.M., Associate Research Scholar

Emily Oldfield, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Predrag Petrovic, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Lars Ratjen, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Barbara Reck, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

David Edwin Reed, Ph.D., Associate 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

Lecturers and Instructors

Jessica Bacher, J.D., Lecturer

Roger Cohn, B.A., Executive Editor, Yale Environment 360 and Lecturer

Sinead Crotty, Ph.D., Lecturer

Lindsay Crum, M.E.M., Chief Manager of Sustainability Operations and Strategic Data and Lecturer

Stuart DeCew, M.E.M., M.B.A., Executive Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Lecturer

Mary Beth Decker, Ph.D., Lecturer

Scott Denning, Ph.D., Coleman P. Burke Visiting Professor

Gary Dunning, M.F., Executive Director, The Forest School and Lecturer

Eva Garen, Ph.D., Program Director, ELTI and Lecturer

Elena Grewal, Ph.D., Lecturer

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

J. Morgan Grove, Ph.D., Lecturer

Stephanie Hanes Wilson, B.A., Lecturer

Walker Holmes, M.E.M., 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

Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Ph.D., Lecturer

Abby Lunstrom, Ph.D., Lecturer

Sarah McGowan, B.A., Lecturer

Fabian Michelangeli, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Chris Mooney, B.A., Lecturer

Joe Orefice, Ph.D., Director of Forest and Agricultural Operations and Lecturer

Anastasia O’Rourke, Ph.D., Lecturer

David Pilz, J.D., Lecturer

John Rhodes, M.P.P.M., Lecturer

E. Ian Robinson, Ph.D., Lecturer

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

Sara Smiley Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Provost, Planetary Solutions and Lecturer

Wake Smith, 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

Faculty Emeriti

William R. Burch, Jr., Ph.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor Emeritus of Natural Resource Management

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

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

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

Secondary Appointments

Anthony Acciavatti, Ph.D., Diana Balmori Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

Sunil Amrith, Ph.D., Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History

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 and Senior Research Scientist in Microbial Diseases

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

Nicole C. Deziel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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