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Jerry L. Burgess (he/him)

Director, Environmental Science and Studies
Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Tectonics, Metamorphic Petrology, Forest Ecology, Conservation, Mining and Energy

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Jana Kopelent-Rehak

Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science and Studies, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Anthropology, Climate and Socioecology, Ethnography, Film and Media, Sustainability, Urban Anthropology

Education: PhD, American University

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Bentley Allan

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Research Interests: International relations, science and politics, global governance, global environmental politics

Education: PhD, Ohio State University

Meghan Avolio

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Ecology (with a focus on plants in cities and grasslands), global change

Laura Di Bianco

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literature

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Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism

Education: PhD, CUNY

Anand Gnanadesikan

Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Physical circulation; biogeochemical cycling; climate modeling

Education: PhD, MIT

Maya Gomes

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry, geobiology, biogeochemical cycling, Earth history, carbonate sedimentology

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei

Professor in German and Philosophy

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Research Interests: Environmental Humanities; aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, cognitive literary theory

Education: PhD, Villanova University: DPhil, University of Oxford

Thomas Haine

Professor Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Ocean circulation and dynamics; ocean’s role in climate

Education: PhD, University of Southampton, UK

Ciaran Harman

Associate Professor and Russell Croft Faculty Scholar, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering

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Research Interests: Understanding flow and transport across hydrologic scales, and their link to the co-evolution of landscape structure, using a combination of theory, experiments, modeling, field work and data analysis

Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Benjamin Hobbs

Theodore W. and Kay W. Schad Professor of Environmental Management, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering

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Research Interests: Environmental, energy, water systems, economics

Naveeda Khan

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Bangladesh: riparian society, engineered landscapes, and the theology of ecological consciousness and climate change; Pakistan: Islam and everyday life; urban anthropology; religion and theology; law and literature; techniques and technologies of perception; U.S. and South Asia: temporality and emergent rationalities

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Nicole Labruto

Director, Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Director of Undergraduate Studies, Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Assistant Research Professor, Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences

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Roni Neff

Associate Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Research Interests: Understanding and changing food systems, particularly promoting food system environmental sustainability and addressing food system inequities, in light of complex environmental and social realities

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Anand Pandian

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Ecological and philosophical anthropology; sensory ethnography and experimental writing; posthumanist and postcolonial criticism; environmental ethics; anthropological method; India, America, Earth

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Sarah Preheim

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering

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Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, bioinformatics

Education: PhD, MIT

Erica Schoenberger

Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering

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Research Interests: Economic geography, environmental history, environmental politics and policy, history of mining, history of the automobile, interdisciplinary scientific collaboration

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Katalin Szlavecz

Research Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Soil ecology, biogeochemistry, geobiology, urban ecosystems

Education: PhD, Eotvos University, Hungary

Darryn Waugh

Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Atmosphere and ocean sciences

Education: PhD, Cambridge University

Benjamin Zaitchik

Morton K. Blaustein Chair and Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests: Climate dynamics; surface hydrology

Education: PhD, Yale University

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