John Wargo, Chair

Paul Sabin, DUS

Environmental Studies Faculty Members

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Chair

John Wargo
Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis and Policy & Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Political Science; Chair of Environmental Studies
(203) 432-5123
Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St. Room 124
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.

DUS

Paul Sabin
Professor of Environmental History; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Environmental Studies
(203) 436-2516
Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Room 2677
paul.sabin@yale.edu

Professor Sabin’s research and teaching focus on United States environmental history, energy politics, and political and economic history, including natural resource development in the American West and overseas. His book, Crude Politics: The California Oil Economy, 1900-1940 (2005), examines how politics and law shaped a growing dependence on petroleum in California and the nation.


Other Faculty

D. Michelle Addington
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
michelle.addington@yale.edu

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

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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

Kelly Brownell
Professor in Psychology, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and School of Public Health; Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
kelly.brownell@yale.edu

Gary Brudvig
Eugene Higgins Professor and Chair of Chemistry; Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
gary.brudvig@yale.edu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Leo Hickey
Professor, Geology & Geophysics
leo.hickey@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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Stephen Stearns
Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
stephen.stearns@yale.edu

Fred Strebeigh
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Writing, English and Forestry & Environmental Studies
stephen.stearns@yale.edu

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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

Harvey Weiss
Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Anthropology
harvey.weiss@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

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YALE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM

CHAIR, JOHN WARGO
DUS, PAUL SABIN
PROGRAM MANAGER, DEBBIE BROADWATER
Address: Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, Room G04, New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 432-9868
Fax: (203) 432-5442

 

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