Program Faculty
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Denise Humphreys Bebbington
Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (formerly IDCE) at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is Co-director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resources Extraction and Society at Clark […]
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Cynthia Caron
Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
As a development sociologist and practitioner in international development and humanitarian assistance, Cindy Caron's research focuses on gender relations in a variety of contexts: agricultural production, access to land and natural resources, land and natural resource governance, displacement, and reconstruction […]
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Jody Emel
Senior Research Scholar, Geography
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Anita Fabos
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Anita H. Fábos is an anthropologist who studies how people who experience displacement and forced migration think about and organize their mobile lives. She has lived, worked, and conducted research together with diasporic Sudanese Muslims and other forced migrants in […]
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Ellen Foley
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Ellen Foley is a medical anthropologist whose research addresses the social production of disease with a focus on how intertwined global, national, and local social forces shape vulnerability to disease, health status, and access to medical care, particularly in sub-Saharan […]
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Deborah Martin
Professor, Geography
I am an urban geographer with interests in the meanings and understandings of place, local politics, legal geography, qualitative methodologies, and social movements (particularly neighborhood activism). My research focuses on the United States, including past research in the Twin Cities […]
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Laurie Ross
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Director, Sustainability and Social Justice
Laurie Ross brings expertise in developing and supporting long-term community-university partnerships that address the social determinants of youth violence. The intractability of youth violence requires horizontal knowledge and strategy production (i.e. responses that are co-created by individuals and communities affected […]
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Barbara Thomas-Slayter
Professor Emeritus, Sustainability and Social Justice