Environmental studies is an interdisciplinary program that combines natural science and social science and examines local, regional, national and international environmental problems in a holistic manner.
There are two tracks to the major: the natural science sequence and the social science sequence.
Advisers for the ES Social Science Track MAJOR
Dawson, Flagg, Frasure, Graesch, Lizarralde, Neely, Turner, Zhang
Advisers for the ES Natural Science Track MAJOR
Askins, Chomiak, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, Siver, Thompson, Zimmer
Advisers for the ES MINOR
Askins, Chomiak, Dawson, Flagg, Frasure, Graesch, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, Neely, Siver, Thompson, Turner, Zhang, Zimmer
Andrew Davis
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental studies • Environmental law and policy • Marine pollution
Jane Dawson
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government and Environmental Studies, Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
(On sabbatical Spring 2018)
International environmental justice • International environmental politics • Comparative environmental activism and politics
Julia A. Flagg
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
(On sabbatical Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
Environmental sociology • Climate change • Costa Rica • Disasters • Human ecology
Manuel Lizarralde
Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Acting Director of Environmental Studies Program
Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology
Michelle Neely
Assistant Professor of English
American literature to 1900 • Animal studies • Environmental humanities • Food studies • African-American literature • Women's literature • Literary and political theory
Peter Siver
Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany, Director of the Environmental Studies Program
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Limnology • Phycology • Impacts of environmental stress on lakes • Reconstructing ancient environments
Wei Zhang
Assistant Professor of Economics
(On sabbatical Spring 2018)
Environmental economics and policy • Agricultural economics and policy • Applied econometrics
Robert A. Askins
Katharine Blunt Professor of Biology
Ecology, ornithology • Impact of forest fragmentation on natural communities • Ecology of early successional birds • Conservation biology
James T. Downs
Associate Professor of History, Interim Director of the American Studies Program
U.S. History • African-American Studies • History of medicine and public health
Glenn Dreyer
Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Director of the Arboretum, Adjunct Associate Professor of Botany
Vegetation management • Ecology and horticulture of native plants • Invasive exotic woody plants • Large and historic trees
William Frasure
Lucretia L. Allyn Professor of Government and International Relations
United States politics • Environmental policy and law • Law and public policy
Pamela Hine
Senior Lecturer of Botany
Environmental education • Plant ecology • Tidal marsh ecology • Pollination ecology
Chad Jones
Associate Professor of Botany, Chair of the Botany Department
Plant ecology • Plant succession • Invasive species • GIS and ecological modeling
David Patton
Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor of Government and International Relations
Comparative politics • European politics • European Union • Federal Republic of Germany
Douglas M. Thompson
Rosemary Park Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Geomorphology • Hydrology • Hazards • Geology • Geography • Civil engineering
Derek Turner
Professor of Philosophy, Associate Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
Philosophy of science • Philosophy of biology • Environmental philosophy
