ECo Faculty & Staff Network

Listed below are Georgetown faculty and staff dedicated to the broadening of environmental education, conservation, and public salience. These individuals belong to a range of departments and are leaders in scholarship, teaching and leadership in environmental matters.

To inquire about affiliating with the Earth Commons, email earthcommons@georgetown.edu, subject line, “ECo Faculty & Staff Network.” There are no requirements for you to become a member of the Network; our purpose is to clearly define in our communications and within our community those furthering research and leadership around environment and sustainability at Georgetown, promote this work, and create new connections.

ECo Faculty & Staff Network

Vishal Agrawal

Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business, Professor of Operations and Information Management, Academic Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative

Bryan Alexander

Adjunct Professor

Randall Amster

Teaching Professor and Co-Director | Co-Director, Environmental Studies

Ali Arab

Associate Professor | Director of Graduate Studies

Peter Armbruster

Davis Family Distinguished Professor & Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Michael A. Bailey

Professor
Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government, Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy

Shweta Bansal

Professor

Evan Barba

Associate Professor

Edward Barrows

Professor Emeritus

Tim Bartley

Professor
Earth Commons and Department of Sociology

Nejm Benessaiah

Assistant Teaching Professor

Traci Bethea

Tenure Line — Assistant Professor

Uwe Brandes

Faculty Director and Professor of the Practice | Law Center – Adjunct

Denise Brennan

Professor | Director

Edith B. Brown Weiss

Emeritus Faculty

Leah Buchman

Adjunct Lecturer

William Buzbee

Edward and Carole Walter Professor of Law

John Byrne

John Hampton Baumgartner, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law | Faculty Director, Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Program and Georgetown Climate Resource Center

Raphael Calel

Associate Professor

Kerrie Carfagno

Associate Teaching Professor
MS-ESM Program Director

Colin Carlson

SOM Research Track — Assistant Professor

Claire Catenaccio

Assistant Professor

Erin Cline

Tagliabue Professor

Sara Colangelo

Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

Ryann Craig

Director of Student Programs and Assistant Research Professor | Main Campus Non-Ordinary — Adjunct

Kerry Danner

Adjunct Lecturer
Professorial Lecturer – Department of Theology

Marwa Daoudy

Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies

Rochelle A. Davis

Sultanate of Oman Chair

Kathryn de Luna

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor

Alexandra DeCandia

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dagomar Degroot

Associate Professor

Robin Dillon-Merrill

Professor and Operations and Information Management Area Chair

Katharine M. Donato

Herzberg Professor and SFS Faculty Chair | Adjunct- JD

Heidi Elmendorf

Associate Professor | Director of the Education, Inquiry & Justice Program
Senior Advisor to the President for Equity in Education, Director of the Regents Science Scholars Program

Marisa Ensor

Adjunct Lecturer
Senior Climate Research Fellow – Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security Justice and Institute for the Study of Int’l Migration, School of Foreign Service

Jason Farr

Assistant Teaching Professor

Marissa Fond

Assistant Teaching Professor

Sheila Foster

The Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy and Professor of Public Policy

James Freericks

Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Physics
Visiting Scientist, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

Song Gao

Teaching Professor

Mark Giordano

Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs

Derek Goldman

Professor of Theater and Performance Studies Co-Director, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

Anita Gonzalez

Professor

William Gormley

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
University Professor; Co-Director, Center for Research on Children in the U.S. (CROCUS)

Gina Green

Professor of the Practice

Brian Griffiths

Assistant Teaching Professor

Max Gruenig

Adjunct Professor – BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES)

Bill J. Hahn

Adjunct Lecturer | GUMC Adjunct — Appointment Pending
Associate Research Professor, Biology

Raha Hakimdavar

Senior Advisor to the Deans of GU-Q and Earth Commons
Founder & CEO – Zyon Space

Matthew Hamilton

Associate Professor

Qiwei He

Associate Professor

Lisa Heinzerling

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law

Rebecca Helm

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Earth Commons

Nathan Hensley

Associate Professor

Toshihiro Higuchi

Associate Professor | Main Campus Non-Ordinary — Adjunct

Douglas Howard

Adjunct Professor – Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA)

Minji Jang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tony Jenkins

Assistant Teaching Professor
Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education

Adanna Johnson

Associate Vice President for Student Equity and Inclusion
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences

Sarah Johnson

Professor

Taylor Jones

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, the Earth Commons

Kaveh Jorabchi

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor

Yuki Kato

Associate Professor

Rebecca Katz

Tenure Line — Professor

Marcus King Ph.D.

Professor of the Practice in Environment and International Affairs

Robin King

Adjunct Professor – Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy (IBD)

Karah Knope

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Jane Komori

Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow

Jessica Kritz

Assistant Professor, Champion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Initiatives

Amrita Kundu

Assistant Professor

Julia Lamm

Professor

Elise Larsen

Assistant Research Professor

Robin Lenhardt

Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Race, Law, and Justice | Associate Dean

Joanna Lewis

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor and Director, Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA)

Megan Lickley

Assistant Professor

Margaret Little

Professor
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Director of Ethics Lab

Kai Liu

Professor

Joan Lombardi

GUMC Adjunct — Professor | Main Campus Research – Senior Fellow

Rodney D. Ludema

Business Title Professor and Director, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy (IBD) & Chair

Sydney Luken

Assistant Teaching Professor of the Practice

Ho-Yin Mak

Associate Professor

Eddie Maloney

Executive Director and Professor of the Practice
Professor

Joan Mandell

Adjunct Instructor – Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) | Temporary/Intermittent — Academic and Student Services (non-exempt)

Janet Mann

Distinguished University Professor, Departments of Biology and Psychology

Peter Marra

Dean, Earth Commons Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Laudato Si’ Professor of Biology and the Environment

MaryBeth Martin

Professor

Jeremy Mathis

Associate Teaching Professor of Global Environmental Affairs

John Mc Neill

Distinguished University Professor

Meredith McKittrick

Associate Professor

Jesse Meiller

Associate Teaching Professor

Emily Mendenhall

Professor

Judith Miller

Professor

Ranit Mishori M.D.

Vice President and Chief Public Health Officer and Special Assistant to the President
Vice President and Chief Public Health Officer; Professor of Family Medicine

Lelia Mooney

Adjunct Lecturer – SCS MPS Supply Chain Management Program

Theodore Moran

Professor Emeritus

Amani Morrison

Assistant Professor

Orissa Moulton

Associate Teaching Professor

Margaret Myers Mullinix

Adjunct Professor – Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy (IBD)

Timothy Newfield

Assistant Professor

Abraham Newman

Professor
Director, BMW Center for German and European Studies

Ann Oldenburg

Lecturer and Assistant Director

Peter Olmsted

Professor and Joseph Semmes Ives Chair in Physics

Jonathan Ostry

Professor of the Practice

Anneliese Palmer

Adjunct Lecturer

Pauliina Patana

Assistant Professor

Manus Patten

Teaching Professor

Nicoletta Pireddu

Professor | Director of Georgetown Humanities Initiative

Milton Regan Jr

Robert L. McDevitt Chair in Jurisprudence | Co-Director, Law Institute/Center

Juan Felipe Riano

Assistant Professor

Leslie Ries

Associate Professor

Nicole Rizzuto

Associate Professor

Paul Roepe

Professor
Co-Director, Georgetown University Center for Infectious Disease

Maya Roth

Della Rosa Term Professor of Theatre | Program Director, Theatre

Lutz Sager

Assistant Professor

Monica Sanders

Adjunct Professor of Law

Alexander Sens

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor of Hellenic Studies

Lisa Singh

Professor

Ed Soule

Associate Professor

Jessica Srikantia Field

Academic Director and Associate Professor of the Practice for ITL

Christopher W. Steck

Associate Professor
Fr.

Betsi Stephen

Associate Professor Emerita

Sarah Stoll

Professor

Robert Thomas

Professor Emeritus

Norma Tilden

Emeritus Teaching Professor

YuYe Tong

Professor

John Trybus

Academic Director and Assistant Professor of the Practice, Center for Social Impact Communication

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Associate Professor

Jeffrey Urbach

Professor of Physics and Interdisciplinary Chair in Science

Angela van Doorn

Associate Teaching Professor

Oswaldo Villena

Research Affiliate

Mark Vlasic

Adjunct Professor of Law

Erik Voeten

Professor
Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs

Shabab Wahid

Assistant Professor

Ed Walsh

Adjunct Professor- GSAS MS in Environmental Metrology and Policy | GUMC Adjunct — Appointment Pending

Michelle Wang

Associate Professor

Cynthia Wei

Teaching Professor and Director of Science Education

Martha R. Weiss Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Director, Environmental Studies Program

Caroline Wellbery

GUMC Adjunct — Professor

Lois Wessel

Associate Professor

Michael Westphal

Adjunct Professor-McCourt School of Public Policy

Ali Whitmer

Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives

Gina Wimp

Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Diane Yeager

Associate Professor Emerita
Thomas J. Healey, C’64, Family Distinguished Professor

Safak Yucel

Associate Professor

Ioannis Ziogas

Assistant Teaching Professor/ MDI Assistant Research Professor

Lucy Zipf

Assistant Teaching Professor


Staff Affiliates

Margaret Beetstra, Senior Statistical Analyst Office of Assessment and Decision Support
Jennifer Eagleton, Associate Director Georgetown Environmental Justice Program
Mia Massimino, Director of Creative Projects, The Woodshed, Racial Justice Institute