Affiliated Faculty & Staff

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, “Affiliated Faculty.” A plain text version of affiliated faculty can be found below.

ECo Affiliated Faculty

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

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

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Evan Barba

Associate Professor

Edward M. Barrows

Professor Emeritus | Professor

Parrish Bergquist

Assistant Professor

Traci Bethea

Tenure Line — Assistant Professor

Uwe Brandes

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

Denise Brennan

Professor | Director

Edith 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

Ellen Carlin

SOM Research Track — Assistant Professor

Colin Carlson

SOM Research Track — Assistant Professor

Francisca Cho

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

Marwa Daoudy

Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies

Rochelle Davis

Sultanate of Oman Chair

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
Senior Advisor to the President for Equity in Education, Director of the Regents Science Scholars Program

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.

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 | Distinguished University Professor
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

Bill J. Hahn

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

Matthew Hamilton

Associate Professor

Lisa Heinzerling

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

Rebecca Helm

Assistant Professor

Nathan Hensley

Associate Professor

Toshihiro Higuchi

Assistant Professor | Main Campus Non-Ordinary — Adjunct

Douglas Howard

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

Sarah Johnson

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Kaveh Jorabchi

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor

Rebecca Katz

Tenure Line — Professor

Karah Knope

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Jessica Kritz

Assistant Professor

Amrita Kundu

Assistant Professor

Julia Lamm

Professor

Robin Lenhardt

Professor of Law | 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

Rodney D. Ludema

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

Ho-Yin Mak

Associate Professor

Eddie Maloney

Executive Director and Professor of the Practice
Professor

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

John Mc Neill

Distinguished University Professor

Meredith McKittrick

Associate Professor

Jesse Meiller

Associate Teaching Professor

Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner

Assistant Professor

Emily Mendenhall

Professor

Theodore Moran

Professor Emeritus

Margaret Myers Mullinix

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

Timothy Newfield

Assistant Professor

Peter Olmsted

Professor and Joseph Semmes Ives Chair in Physics

Pauliina Patana

Assistant Professor

Leslie Ries

Associate Professor

Nicole Rizzuto

Associate Professor

Paul Roepe

Professor
Co-Director, Georgetown University Center for Infectious Disease

Lutz Sager

Assistant Professor

Alexander Sens

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

Lisa Singh

Professor

Rosemary Sokas

Professor

Ed Soule

Associate Professor

Christopher Steck

Associate Professor
Fr.

Betsi Stephen

Associate Professor Emerita

Sarah Stoll

Professor

Robert Thomas

Professor Emeritus

Norma Tilden

Emeritus Teaching Professor

YuYe Tong

Professor

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Associate Professor

Jeffrey Urbach

Professor of Physics and Interdisciplinary Chair in Science

Mark Vlasic

Adjunct Professor of Law

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

Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Science Education

Martha Weiss Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Director, Environmental Studies Program

Caroline Wellbery

GUMC Adjunct — Professor

Lois Wessel

Assistant 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

Assistant Professor

Kathryn de Luna

Provost Distinguished Associate Professor

Angela van Doorn

Assistant Teaching Professor


Affiliated Faculty (Plain Text)

Vishal Agrawal, Lapeyre Family Professor and Academic Director, Sustainable Business Initiative; Co-Academic Director, M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management, McDonough School of Business
Randall Amster, Co-Director, Environmental Studies, Teaching Professor and Co-Director, Environmental Studies
Bryan Alexander, Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Ali Arab, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Peter Armbruster, Davis Family Distinguished Professor & Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biology
Michael A Bailey, Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government, Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy, Director,  Data Science for Public Policy Program (new window)
Shweta Bansal, Associate Professor of Biology
Evan Barba, Associate Professor, Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT)
Edward Barrows, Professor, Department of Biology
Julia Watts Belser, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Parrish Bergquist, Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Traci N. Bethea, Assistant Professor, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Uwe Brandes, Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown Law Center
Denise E Brennan, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Leah Buchman, Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown College
William Buzbee, Edward and Carole Walter Professor of Law, Law Center Faculty
John Peter 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, Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Ellen Carlin, Assistant Professor, SOM Research Track
Colin Carlson, SOM Research Track — Assistant Professor
Francisca Cho, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Erin M. Cline, Tagliabue Professor, Department of Theology
Sarah Colangelo, Visiting Professor and Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
Ryann Craig, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Marwa Daoudy Ph.D., Associate Professor/ Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies
Rochelle Davis, Sultanate of Oman Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, SFS
Alexandra DeCandia, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biology
Dagomar DeGroot, Associate Professor, Department of History
Robin Dillon-Merrill, Professor and Area Coordinator for Operations and Information Management in the MSB, MSB Faculty
Emanuela Del Gado, Professor, Department of Physics
Katharine M. Donato, Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Angela van Doorn, Assistant Teaching Professor, College – Department of Biology
Heidi G Elmendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Sheila R. Foster, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Law); Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy
James Freericks, Chair, Depertment of Physics
Mark Giordano, Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Derek Goldman, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies Co-Director, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics
Anita Gonzalez, Professor, Performing Arts and African American Studies, Racial Justice Institute
William Gormley, Distinguished University Professor, Co-Director, Center for Research on Children in the U.S., McCourt School of Public Policy
Bill Hahn, Adjunct Professor, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS), Adjunct Lecturer, GUMC Adjunct, Associate Research Professor, Biology
Matthew Hamilton, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Lisa Heinzerling, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law, Law Center
Nathan K. Hensley, Associate Professor, Department of English
Toshihiro Higuchi, Assistant Professor, Faculty – SFS, School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Douglas Howard, Adjunct Professor, Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA), School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Sarah Johnson, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Kaveh Jorabchi, Provost Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Rebecca Katz, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Edward Van Keuren, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Physics
Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Jessica Kritz, Assistant Professor, Director, Initiative on Health and Peace
Amrita Kundu, Assistant Professor of Operations, McDonough School of Business
Julia Lamm, Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Robin Lenhardt, Professor of Law, Associate Dean, Law Center
Joanna Lewis, Provost Distinguished Associate Professor and Director, Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA), School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Margaret O Little, Professor, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Director of Ethics Lab
Kai Liu, Professor, Department of Physics
Rodney D Ludema, Business Title Professor and Director, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy & Chair
Kathryn de Luna, Provost Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of History
Ho Yin Mak, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Eddie Maloney, Executive Director and Professor of the Practice, Program in Learning, Design, and Technology; Professor, Department of English
Janet Mann, Professor, Department of Biology, Departments of Biology and Psychology
Mary Beth Martin, Professor, Departments of Oncology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center
Meredith McKittrick, Associate Professor, Department of History
John McNeill, Distinguished University Professor, School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Assistant professor of Philosophy
Emily Mendenhall, Professor, School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Judith Miller, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Margaret Myers Mullinix, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy
Theodore H Moran, Professor Emeritus, SFS
Timothy, Newfield, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Peter Olmstead, Professor and Joseph Semmes Ives Chair in Physics
Pauliina Patana, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Maria Petrova, Academic Co-Director, MS-ESM, The Earth Commons, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Alexandra Phelan, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Adjunct- LLM
Nicoletta Pireddu, Professor, Department of Italian Studies
Leslie Ries, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Nicole Rizzuto, Associate Professor, Department of English
Paul Roepe, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Lutz Sager, Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Alexander Sens, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor of Hellenic Studies
Lisa Singh, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Rosemary Sokas, Professor, Department of Human Science
Edward Soule, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Christopher Steck, Associate Professor, College – Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Elizabeth Stephen, GUMC Adjunct, Nurse Midwifery Program
Sarah Stoll, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Paul Sullivan, Adjunct Instructor, Center for Security Studies
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Bob Thomas, Professor of Marketing, MSB Faculty
Norma Tilden, Emeritus Teaching Professor, Department of English
YuYe Tong, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Jeffrey Urbach, Professor of Physics and Interdisciplinary Chair in Science, Department of Physics
Mark V Vlasic, Adjunct, Law Center vlasicm@georgetown.edu
Shabab Wahid, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health
Ed Walsh, Adjunct Professor GSAS, MS, Environmental Metrology and Policy
Michelle C Wang, Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History
Cynthia Wei, Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of Science Education, SFS
Martha Weiss, Professor and Co-Director, Environmental Studies Program, Department of Biology
Edith Brown Weiss, Emeritus Faculty Law Center Faculty
Caroline Wellbery, GUMC Adjunct‚ Professor, Family Medicine
Lois Wessel, Assistant Professor, Family Nurse Practitioner Program
Michael Westphal, Adjunct Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Andria Wisler, Executive Director, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service and Associate Teaching Professor of Justice and Peace
Ali Whitmer, Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives
Gina Wimp, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biology
Diane Yeager, Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Thomas J. Healey Family Distinguished Professor
Safak Yucel, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business

Staff Affiliates

Margaret Beetstra, Senior Statistical Analyst Office of Assessment and Decision Support
Meghan Chapple, Vice President for Sustainability, Office of the Chief Operations Officer
Jennifer Eagleton, Associate Director Georgetown Environmental Justice Program
Dan Guilbeault, Director of Sustainability, Office of Sustainability
Mia Massimino, Director of Creative Projects, The Woodshed, Racial Justice Institute