Faculty & Staff
UMass Boston's School for the Environment is home to more than 400 environmental science, marine science, urban planning, sustainability, and community development faculty, post-docs, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students. Below you will find contact information for core and research faculty (those whose primary home is the School for the Environment), affiliate faculty (those whose secondary home is the School for the Environment), adjunct faculty (those whose affiliation is outside of the University of Massachusetts Boston), and the School’s staff, including those directly supporting institutes, centers, and facilities.
Dean
Core Faculty
- Antonio Raciti, Department Chair, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Elizabeth Sweet, Associate Dean, School for the Environment
- Robert Chen, Professor U of M, School for the Environment
- Carol Thornber, Dean and Professor A, School for the Environment
- Georgia Mavrommati, Associate Professor, School for the Environment
- Gregory Koman, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Helen Poynton, Undergraduate Program Director & Professor, School for the Environment
- Jesse Farmer, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- John Duff, Professor, School for the Environment
- Juanita Urban-Rich, Associate Professor, School for the Environment
- Karen Johannesson, Professor, School for the Environment
- Karen Ricciardi, Associate Dean, College of Science & Mathematics
- Laura Castro Diaz, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Lorena Estrada-Martinez, Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Michael Tlusty, Graduate Program Director/Professor, School for the Environment
- Paul Kirshen, Professor, School for the Environment
- Chi-Kan Hung, Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Sowmya Balachandran, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Zong-Guo Xia, Professor, School for the Environment
Research and Adjunct Faculty
- Beth Kaplin, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- John Mandelman, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Luke Simpson, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Mark Borrelli, Hourly Research Fellow, School for the Environment
- Robert Brock, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Robert Stevenson, Associate Professor U Of M, Biology
- Stephanie Wood LaFond, Lecturer, Biology
- Stephen Curwood, Associate Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Timothy Werner, Hourly Research Fellow, School for the Environment
Instructional Faculty
- Christopher White, Associate Lecturer, School for the Environment
- David Merwin, Senior Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Justin Drew, Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Vijaya Jyoti, Lecturer, School for the Environment
Affiliated Faculty
- Alexander More, Associate Professor, Urban Public Health
- Amit Patel, Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Benyamin Lichtenstein, Associate Professor, Management
- James Woods, Director, INENAS, Institute for New England Native American Studies
- David Timmons, Assistant Professor, Economics
- Douglas Woodhams, Professor, Biology
- Luis Ramos, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Jarrett Byrnes, Associate Professor, Biology
- Jose Martinez Reyes, Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Kimberly Hamad, Graduate Program Director/Professor, Engineering
- Lisa Rivera, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Maureen Scully, Associate Professor, Management
- Michael Johnson, SpecAsst To Chanc, Professor A, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Pamela DiBona, Director, MassBays, School for the Environment
- Roberta Wollons, Professor U of M, History
- Rosalyn Negron, Professor, Anthropology
- Stephanie Wood LaFond, Lecturer, Biology
Staff
- Aimee Bonanno, Education Program Manager, School for the Environment
- Allison Novelly, Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
- Balakrishnan Balachandran, Director, Sustainable Solutions Lab, Sustainable Solutions Lab
- Elizabeth Boyle, Director, Academic Achievement Serv Center, School for the Environment
- Francesco Peri, Research Engineer/Project Manager, School for the Environment
- Helenmary Hotz, Director, School for the Environment, Academic Lab, School for the Environment
- Jennifer Bender, Program Coordinator, School for the Environment
- Jillian Carr, Staff Data Scientist, MassBays, School for the Environment
- Kimberly Starbuck, Senior Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
- Kristin Uiterwyk, Director of Urban Harbors Institute, Urban Harbors Institute
- Paula Cameron, Administrative Assistant II, School for the Environment
- Prassede Vella Foote, Senior Scientist, MassBays, School for the Environment
- Schanna James, Departmental Resrch Admin I, School for the Environment
- Yvonne Vaillancourt, Director, Nantucket Field Station, Nantucket Program
Contact Us
School for the Environment
McCormack Hall
2nd Floor, Room 615
Phone: 617.287.7440
Email the School for the Environment