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

Michelle Bell, Senior Associate Dean of Research

Ken Gillingham, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Robert Klee, Senior Associate Dean of Professional Practice
Peter Boyd, Academic Director, Career and Professional Development
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
Sonya Forrester, Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Kristin Floyd, Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Services
Wendi Hicks, Assistant Dean of Enrollment Management and Financial Aid
Denny Kalenzaga, Director of Finance and Administration
Melanie Quigley, Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives
Matthias Schildwachter, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs
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; Senior Associate Dean of Research; and Director of Doctoral Studies

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

Craig R. Brodersen, Ph.D., Howard and Maryam Newman Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Co-Director, Yale College Environmental Studies Program

Liza S. Comita, Ph.D., Davis-Denkmann Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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; 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., Grinstein Class 1954 Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics; Professor, School of Management and Department of Economics; and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

David Keiser, Ph.D., Professor of Water Resources Management and Policy

Matthew J. Kotchen, Ph.D., Langdon K. Storm 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

Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication and Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

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

Peter A. Raymond, Ph.D., Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry; Professor of Geology and Geophysics; and Co-Director, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture

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., Wangari Maathai Professor of Environmental Justice and Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative

Gerald Torres, J.D., Dolores Huerta and Wilma Mankiller 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

Yuan Yao, Ph.D., Manufacturer’s Association Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems and Director, Center for Industrial Ecology

Julie B. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Liliane and Christian Haub 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

Karl Aspelund, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics

Brianna Castro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urban Sustainability

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

Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Temperate Forest Resilience

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

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

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

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 of Epidemiology, School of Public Health; Professor in the Practice, School of Management; and Senior Research Scientist in Chemical and Environmental Engineering

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

Peter Boyd, B.A., Lecturer and Academic Director, Career and Professional Development Office

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

Marlyse C. Duguid, Ph.D., Thomas G. Siccama Senior Lecturer II in Environmental Field Studies; Research Scientist; and Director of Research, The Yale Forests

L. Kealoha Freidenburg, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer

Michael Kern, M.P.A., Bataua Professor in the Practice of Collaborative Solutions

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., Research Scientist

Reem Khalifa AlMealla, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist and Dorothy S. McCluskey Fellow in Conservation

Giuseppe Amatulli, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Ashley Bell, Ph.D., Research Scientist

Luke Meyer Browne, 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., Research Scientist

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

Nohemi Huanca-Nunez, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Robert Javonillo, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

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

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

Jennifer Marlon, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Executive Director, Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions

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

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

Jiyoung Son, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Fengchao Sun, Ph.D., Research Scientist

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

Elisabeth Ward, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Stephen Wood, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Lecturer
Bingquan Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist

Lecturers and Instructors

Jessica Bacher, J.D., Lecturer

Susan Biniaz, J.D., Lecturer

David Cordero Heredia, J.S.D., LL.M., Visiting Professor

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

Sinead Crotty, Ph.D., Lecturer

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

Douglas Daly, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct)

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

A. Scott Denning, Ph.D., Visiting Professor

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

Austin Dziki, M.F., Lecturer

Tagan Engel, B.A., Lecturer

Hanno Erythropel, Ph.D., Lecturer and Research Scientist, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Michelle Gabriel, Ph.D., 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

Walker Holmes, M.E.M., Lecturer

Jill Kelly, Ph.D., Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health and Lecturer, Yale School of Architecture

Lawrence Kelly, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Margaret Kerr, Ph.D., Visiting Professor

Melissa Kops, M.A., Lecturer

Amir Mehr, M.B.A., Lecturer 

Fabian Michelangeli, Ph.D., Professor Adjunct

Colleen Murphy-Dunning, M.S., Lecturer

Harini Nagendra, Ph.D., Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Professor

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

Anastasia O’Rourke, Ph.D., Lecturer

David Pilz, J.D., Lecturer

Haille Rae, Ph.D., Associate Director of Research Programs and Academic Affairs and Lecturer

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

Chris Savos, Ph.D., Lecturer

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

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

Amy Vedder, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer

A. William Weber, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Aïcha Woods, M.Arch., Urban Program Manager, Yale Urban Initiative and Lecturer

Faculty Emeriti

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

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

Marian R. Chertow, Ph.D., Manufacturer’s Association Professor Emeritus of Industrial Ecology

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

Bradford S. Gentry, J.D., Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor Emeritus in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy

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

Thomas E. Graedel, Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Industrial Ecology

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

Robert O. Mendelsohn, Ph.D., Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor Emeritus of Forest Policy

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 and Director, MacMillan Center

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

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

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

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

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

Anya Nakhmurina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Management, School of Management

Maya Prabhu, M.D., L.L.B., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor Adjunct of Law

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

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