John Wargo, Chair, on the Cape Cod beach - Junior Seminar field trip.
Harvey Weiss, Director of Undergraduate Studies.
We're eager to help you plot your journey through the Environmental Studies major. Please get in touch early and often! Even as freshmen, there are important steps to prepare for this degree.
Chair
John Wargo
Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis and Policy & Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Political Science
(203) 432-5123
301 Prospect Street, Room 201
john.wargo@yale.edu
John Wargo is Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis and Policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Environment and Health Initiative. Professor Wargo's most recent work has focused on children's exposure to air pollution, especially diesel emissions.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Harvey Weiss
Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Anthropology
(203) 432-4080
HGS B12
harvey.weiss@yale.edu
Professor Weiss' research interests include Mesopotamia, early agriculture, cities and empires; Holocene paleoclimatology and environmental change. Additionally, Professor Weiss has been the Director since 1978 of the Tell Leilan Project, which has focused on the dynamic relationship between humans and their natural and social environment in one of the largest archaeological sites in Syria.
Other Faculty
Paul Anastas
Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Lecturer, Chemistry; Senior Research Scientist, Chemical Engineering; Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
paul.anastas@yale.edu
Shimon Anisfeld
Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry, Forestry & Environmental Studies
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
Hagit Affek
Assistant Professor, Geology & Geophysics
hagit.affek@yale.edu
Gaboury Benoit
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Chemical Engineering; Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems; Co-Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology
gaboury.benoit@yale.edu
Graeme Berlyn
E. H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management and Physiology of Trees, Forestry & Environmental Studies
graeme.berlyn@yale.edu
Ruth Blake
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics; Associate Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies
ruth.blake@yale.edu
Derek
Briggs
Frederick William Beinecke Professor, Geology and Geophysics
derek.briggs@yale.edu
Benjamin Cashore
Professor in Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Science, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance
benjamin.cashore@yale.edu
Carol Carpenter
Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, Forestry & Environmental Studies & Lecturer, Anthropology
carol.carpenter@yale.edu
Susan Clark
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences, Forestry & Environmental Studies
susan.g.clark@yale.edu
Michael Donoghue
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies and Geology & Geophysics; Director and Curator of Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History
michael.donoghue@yale.edu
Amity Doolittle
Lecturer & Associate Research Scientist in Conservation and Development, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Program Director, Tropical Resources Institute
amity.doolittle@yale.edu
Michael Dove
Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Anthropology; Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum
michael.dove@yale.edu
Menachem Elimelech
Roberto Goizueta Professor, Environmental and Chemical Engineering; Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering;
Director, Environmental Engineering Program
menachem.elimelech@yale.edu
John Mack Faragher
Arthur Unobskey Professor, History; Professor, American Studies; Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
john.faragher@yale.edu
Durland Fish
Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health and Forestry & Environmental Studies; Director, CDC Fellowship Training Program in Vector-borne Diseases; Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Center for EcoEpidemiology; Vice Director, Graduate Program in Organismal and Integrative Biology
durland.fish@yale.edu
Gordon Geballe
Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs and Lecturer in Urban Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies
gordon.geballe@yale.edu
Mary Helen
Goldsmith
Professor emerita, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
mary.goldsmith@yale.edu
Thomas Graedel
Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Chemical Engineering; Professor, Geology and Geophysics; Director, Center for Industrial Ecology
thomas.graedel@yale.edu
Leo Hickey
Professor, Geology & Geophysics
leo.hickey@yale.edu
Vivian Irish
Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
vivian.irish@yale.edu
Stephen Kellert
Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Co-Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology
stephen.kellert@yale.edu
Daniel Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor, History; Professor, History of Medicine, American Studies, and Law (Adjunct); Chair, Program in the History of Medicine & Science
daniel.kevles@yale.edu
Benedict Kiernan
Whitney Griswold Professor of History; Professor of International and Area Studies; Director, Genocide Studies Progrm
ben.kiernan@yale.edu
Robert Mendelsohn
Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Economics; Professor, School of Management
robert.mendelsohn@yale.edu
William Mitch
Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Engineering; Assistant Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies
william.mitch@yale.edu
Julie Newman
Lecturer, Forestry & Environmental Studies and FAS College Seminars and Director, Office of Sustainability
julie.newman@yale.edu
Sheila Olmstead
Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, Forestry & Environmental Studies
sheila.olmstead@yale.edu
Mark Pagani
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
mark.pagani@yale.edu
Jeffrey
Park
Professor, Geology and Geophysics; Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
jeffrey.park@yale.edu
Peter Perdue
Professor, History
peter.perdue@yale.edu
David Post
Assistant
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
david.post@yale.edu
Jeffrey Powell
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
jeffrey.powell@yale.edu
Peter Raymond
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies
peter.raymond@yale.edu
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science
susan.rose-ackerman@yale.edu
James Saiers
Professor of Hydrology, Forestry & Environmental Studies and Professor, Chemical Engineering
james.saiers@yale.edu
Oswald Schmitz
Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology & Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
oswald.schmitz@yale.edu
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
Professor, Anthropology; Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies
kalyanakrishnan.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu
David Skelly
Professor of Ecology, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
david.skelly@yale.edu
Brian
Skinner
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
brian.skinner@yale.edu
H. Catherine
Skinner
Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist, Geology and Geophysics; Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale Medical School
catherine.skinner@yale.edu
Ronald Smith
Damon Wells Professor, Geology and Geophysics; Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Earth Observation
ronald.smith@yale.edu
James Gustave Speth
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy, Forestry & Environmental Studies
gus.speth@yale.edu
Stephen Stearns
Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
stephen.stearns@yale.edu
Karl Turekian
Sterling Professor of Geology & Geophysics; Director, Center for the Study of Global Change
karl.turekian@yale.edu
Zhengrong Wang
Assistant Professor, Geology & Geophysics
zhengrong.wang@yale.edu
Robert Wyman
Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
robert.wyman@yale.edu
Julie Zimmerman
Assistant Professor of Green Engineering, Chemical Engineering and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Assistant Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
julie.zimmerman@yale.edu