Environmental Science & Policy Faculty

The Environmental Science & Policy core faculty members maintain active and varied research programs. They also provide professional services as consultants, journal editors, board directors, or committee members for a wide range of organizations outside the university. The high degree of outside involvement creates opportunities for student projects, internships, and subsequent employment. The core faculty do most of the student advising and research supervision.

(Back row, left to right: Brown, Ratick, Goldoftas, Goble. Front row, left to right: Stephens and Downs.)

Halina S. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Program Director of the Environmental Science Undergraduate Major
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science & Policy
Use of information disclosure as a regulatory instrument for sustainability; socio-technical system innovation in sustainability transition, corporate accountability and governance, social learning and institutional theory, comparative international environmental policy, environmental public health policy, environmental toxicology, management of risks from toxic substances

Timothy J. Downs, D.Env.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Socio-ecological systems approaches, natural resource management, watershed stewardship, water supply and sanitation, operational sustainability via integrated capacity building, risk analysis, vulnerability and adaptation, impacts assessment, Latin American region and transitional countries

Barbara Goldoftas
Visiting Instructor of Environmental Science and Policy
Environmental epidemiology, urban environmental health, and social epidemiology

Samuel J. Ratick, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy and Geography
Decision analysis in environmental assessment and management, spatial analysis, quantitative and dynamic modeling, environmental policy, coastal hazards from climate change, pollution prevention in companies, locating hazardous facilities

Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy
Sustainability science, technologies and policies to mitigate climate change, energy technology innovation, CO2 capture and storage, renewable energy, universities as change agent for sustainability

Adjunct Faculty

Charles Agosta, Ph.D.
John Baker, Ph.D.
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
J. Ronald Eastman, Ph.D.
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Susan Foster, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Beverly C. Grier, Ph.D.
Susan Hanson, Ph.D.
Dale Hattis, Ph.D.
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.
Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.
Todd Livdahl, Ph.D.
Deborah Martin, Ph.D.
Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
John Rogan, Ph.D.
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Joseph Sarkis, Ph.D.
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
B. L. Turner, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty

Donna Hicks, Ph.D.

Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.