Our 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
Carol Thornber
Title: Dean of School for the Environment
Department: School for the Environment
Email: Carol.Thornber@umb.edu
Expertise:Core Faculty
- Elizabeth Sweet, Associate Dean, School for the Environment
- Robert Chen, Director of Grant Scholarly Initiatives, Provost's Office
- Boniface Fosu, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Carol Thornber, Dean of School for the Environment, School for the Environment
- Christian Rivera, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Enrique Ramos, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Georgia Mavrommati, Associate Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Gregory Koman, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Helen Poynton, Undergraduate Program Director & Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Holly Cronin, Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Jesse Farmer, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- John Duff, Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Juanita Urban-Rich, Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Karen Johannesson, Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Karen Ricciardi, Senior Associate Dean, College of Science & Mathematics
- Katherine Dafforn, Distinguished Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Laura Castro Diaz, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Lorena Estrada-Martinez, Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Luis Santiago, Department Chair, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Marielle de Oliveira, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Michael Tlusty, Graduate Program Director, Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Patrice Williams, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Chi-Kan Hung, Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Shijuan Chen, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Sowmya Balachandran, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Sua Kim, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Xiaofeng Liu, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Zong-Guo Xia, Interim Chair, EnvSci Sus, Environ Sci & Sustainability
Research and Adjunct Faculty
- Antonio Raciti, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Beth Kaplin, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Mark Borrelli, Hourly Research Fellow, School for the Environment
- Robert Stevenson, Associate Dean, College of Science & Mathematics
- Stephanie Wood LaFond, Lecturer, Biology
- Stephen Curwood, Hourly Research Fellow, School for the Environment
Instructional Faculty
- Christopher White, Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- David Merwin, Senior Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Jennifer Clifford, Senior Lecturer, Economics
- Justin Drew, Senior Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Lindsey Butler, Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
- Vijaya Jyoti, Senior Lecturer, Environ Sci & Sustainability
Affiliated Faculty
- Alexander More, Associate Professor, Urban Public Health
- Benyamin Lichtenstein, Professor, Management
- James Woods, Director of Institute for New England Native American Studies, Institute New England Native American
- David Timmons, Associate Professor, Economics
- Douglas Woodhams, Professor, Biology
- Jarrett Byrnes, Associate Professor, Biology
- Jose Martinez Reyes, Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Kimberly Hamad, Professor, Engineering
- Lisa Rivera, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Maureen Scully, Professor, Management
- Michael Johnson, Professor, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Roberta Wollons, Professor, History
- Rosalyn Negron, Professor, Anthropology
- Stephanie Wood LaFond, Lecturer, Biology
- Vesela Veleva, Senior Lecturer II, Management
Staff
- Aimee Bonanno, Assistant Dean for the School for the Environment, School for the Environment
- Allison Novelly, Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
- Balakrishnan Balachandran, Director of Sustainable Solutions Lab, Sustainable Solutions Lab
- Elizabeth Boyle, Director of Acad Achievement Serv Ctr, School for the Environment
- Francesco Peri, Research Engineer/Project Manager, School for the Environment
- Helenmary Hotz, Director of School for the Environment Academic Lab, School for the Environment
- Isabelle Freda, Student Success Specialist, School for the Environment
- Jennifer Bender, Program Coordinator, School for the Environment
- Jillian Carr, Habitat Program Manager, Ctr for Mass Bays Natl Estuary
- 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, MassBays NEP Director, Ctr for Mass Bays Natl Estuary
- Schanna James, Departmental Resrch Admin I, School for the Environment
- Shannon Hogan, Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
- Yvonne Vaillancourt, Director of Nantucket Field Station, Nantucket Field Station