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