Affiliated Faculty
environmental studies
William Armstrong
Email: william.armstrong@bc.edu
Department: Chemistry
Areas of Specialization: Transition metal catalysis of multi-electron reactions at the oxidizing and reducing limits of the redox scale
Course related to ES minor:
G. Michael Barnett
Email: barnetge@bc.edu
Department: Education
Areas of Specialization: Urban science education, educational technology, trust-building in university-school partnerships
Course related to ES minor:
Martha Carlson Mazur
Email: martha.carlsonmazur@bc.edu
Areas of Specialization: ecohydrology, plant-hydrology interactions, wetland and stream ecology, coastal ecosystems, Great Lakes rivermouth ccosystems
Courses related to ES minor:
- GE 202 Environmental Systems: Ecosystems
- GE 203 Environmental Systems: Water Resources
- GE 420 Ecohydrology
- GE 580 Environmental Seminar
Paul Davidovits
Email: paul.davidovits@bc.edu
Department: Chemistry
Areas of Specialization: The role of cloud and aerosol chemistry in atmospheric processes such as acid rain formation and stratospheric ozone depletion. The current work in the Davidovits laboratory is focused on the study chemical and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols including soot aerosols. Such aerosols have been shown to have important effects on climate and present serious health hazards
Rosanna Demarco
Email: rosanna.demarco.1@bc.edu
Department: School of Nursing
Areas of Specialization: Women, marginalization, and health behaviors including women living with HIV/AIDS and nurses in the workplace. Community-based intervention mixed methods research with vulnerable populations; conceptualizing family and community as client; research design methodologies and knowledge development that is gender sensitive and culturally relevant to women
Course related to ES minor:
Charles Derber
Email: derber@bc.edu
Department: Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Climate change, capitalism, globalization, terrorism, the culture of hegemony, and the power of multinational corporations
Courses related to ES minor:
David Deese
Email: david.deese@bc.edu
Department: Political Science
Areas of Specialization: The politics and institutions of international economic relations
Course related to ES minor:
John Ebel
Email: john.ebel@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Earthquake Seismology, Exploration Seismology, Theoretical Seismology
Courses related to ES minor:
Brian Gareau
Email: brian.gareau@bc.edu
Department: Sociology and International Studies
Areas of Specialization: Environmental Sociology; Science, Knowledge and Technology; Globalization; Political Sociology; Rural Sociology/Agrofood Studies; Global Environmental Governance
Courses related to ES minor:
- SC 031 Society and Environmental Transformations
- SC 348/IN 348 Environmental Sociology
- SC 530/IN 530 International Studies Senior Seminar
- SC 349 Environmental Studies: Select Topics
Bani Ghosh
Email: bani.ghosh@bc.edu
Department: Economics
Areas of Specialization: Environmental economics
Course related to ES minor:
Frank Gollop
Email: gollop@bc.edu
Department: Economics
Areas of Specialization: Industrial organization
Course related to ES minor:
Laura Hake
Email: hakel@bc.edu
Department: Biology
Areas of Specialization: Translational regulation and signal transduction during meiosis and in early animal development
Courses related to ES minor:
Colleen Hitchcock
Email: colleen.hitchcock@bc.edu
Department: Biology
Areas of Specialization: Ecology, evolution, biodiversity and climate change. Focus on Lepidoptera, tritrophic interactions and climate change
Courses related to ES minor:
- BI 147 Biodiversity Connections
- BI 407 Ecology of Plants
- BI 145 Ecology of a Dynamic Planet
Rudolph Hon
Email: rudolph.hon@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Igneous Geochemistry, Petrology, Mineralogy, GIS
Courses related to ES minor:
- GE 192 Earth Under Siege
- GE 204 Environmental Systems: The Critical Zone
- GE 250 Environmental Geology
- GE 480 Applications of GIS
Alan Kafka
Email: alan.kafka@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Seismology, Earthquake Hazards, Science Education, Science and Public Policy
Course related to ES minor:
T Frank Kennedy, S.J.
Email: frkenned@bc.edu
Department: Jesuit Community, Music Department
Areas of Specialization: Early Music, Opera
Course related to ES minor:
Robert Kern
Email: robert.kern@bc.edu
Department: English
Areas of Specialization: 19th and 20th century American poetry, American nature writing and Ecocriticism, and the Whitman tradition
Courses related to ES minor:
- EN 633 Cross Cultural American Fiction
- EN 857 American Nature Writing
Gail Kineke
Email: gail.kineke@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Marine sediment transport, coastal oceanography and estuarine processes
Courses related to ES minor:
- GE 157 Oceanography
- GE 206 Environmental Systems: Oceans
- GE 380 Environmental Oceanography
- GE 535 Coastal Processes
Marc Landy
Email: marc.landy@bc.edu
Department: Political Science
Areas of Specialization: American Political Development, American Presidency, Environmental Politics and Policy
Course related to ES minor:
Marina McCoy
Email: marina.mccoy@bc.edu
Department: Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: Ancient Philosophy (Plato, rhetoricians, ancient Greek literature), Gender and ecology
Course related to ES minor:
- PL 521 Women, Nature, and Ecology
Katherine McNeill
Email: kmcneill@bc.edu
Department: Education
Areas of Specialization: Science education; supporting students in scientific inquiry, explanation and argumentation; design and enactment of science curriculum materials
Course related to ES minor:
Clare O'Connor
Email: clare.oconnor@bc.edu
Department: Biology
Areas of Specialization: Role of protein carboxyl methyltransferase in the repair of proteins during the aging process
Course related to ES minor:
Zygmunt Plater
Email: zygmunt.plater@bc.edu
Department: Law School
Areas of Specialization: Environmental, property, land use, and administrative agency law
Course related to ES minor:
- UN 256 Environmental Law and Policy
Prasannan Parthasarathi
Email: prasannan.parthasarathi@bc.edu
Department: History
Areas of Specialization: Modern South Asian history; British Empire; labor history; economic history
Course related to ES minor:
Juliet Schor
Email: juliet.schor@bc.edu
Department: Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Consumer culture, consumption and sustainability
Courses related to ES minor:
- SC 025 People and Nature: History and Future of Human Impacts/Planet
- SC 560 Consumption and Sustainability
Noah Snyder
Email: noah.snyder@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Earth surface processes; river management; water resources
Courses related to ES minor:
- GE 132 Exploring the Earth I
- GE 170 Rivers and the Environment
- GE 201 Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint
- GE 400 Watershed Geomorphology
- GE 580 Environmental Seminar
Min Hyoung Song
Email: min.song@bc.edu
Department: English
Areas of Specialization: Specializes in Asian American, ethnic American, and twentieth-century American literature, with a special interest in cultural studies and literary theory
Course related to ES minor:
Bill Stevenson
Email: stevenw@bc.edu
Department: Organizational Studies, Carroll School of Management
Areas of Specialization: Environmental management, organizational research, and leadership
Course related to ES minor:
Paul Strother
Email: paul.strother@bc.edu
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Specialization: Paleobotany, palynology, Precambrian paleobiology, and the origin of land plants. I study terrestrialization, which includes both the evolutionary processes and the fossil record associated with the origin and early establishment of terrestrial ecosystems on Earth
Courses related to ES minor:
- GE 146 Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth
- GE 335 Topics in Geobiology
Holly Vandewall
E-mail: holly.vandewall@bc.edu
Department: Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: History and Philosophy of Science, Environmental Ethics
Course related to ES minor:
- Environmental Ethics
Judith Vessey
Email: vessey@bc.edu
Department: Philosophy
Areas of Specialization: The effect of chronic teasing and bullying on psychological and physical health of children and adolescents; evidence-based school health services and school nursing practices; bullying in the workplace
Course related to ES minor:
Sandra Waddock
Email: sandra.waddock@bc.edu
Department: Carroll School of Management
Areas of Specialization: Sustainability, Responsibility, Community at Boston College and the Initiative for Responsible Investing
Courses related to ES minor:
- MD 310 Corporate Responsibility
- UN 548 Leadership and Mindfulness
David Wirth
Email: david.wirth@bc.edu
Department: Law School
Areas of Specialization:
Courses related to ES minor:
- Environmental Law
- International Environmental Law
- Climate Change and the Law
Robert Wolff
Email: robert.wolff@bc.edu
Department: Biology
Areas of Specialization: Behavioral Ecology, Marine Ecology, Pre-Health Careers
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