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, School for the Environment
- Carol Thornber, Dean of School for the Environment, School for the Environment
- Christian Rivera, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Enrique Ramos, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- 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
- Holly Cronin, Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Jesse Farmer, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- John Duff, Professor, School for the Environment
- Juanita Urban-Rich, Professor, School for the Environment
- Karen Johannesson, Professor, School for the Environment
- Karen Ricciardi, Senior Associate Dean, College of Science & Mathematics
- Katherine Dafforn, Distinguished Professor, School for the Environment
- Laura Castro Diaz, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Lorena Estrada-Martinez, Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Luis Santiago, Department Chair, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Michael Tlusty, Graduate Program Director, Professor, School for the Environment
- Patrice Williams, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Chi-Kan Hung, Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Shijuan Chen, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Sowmya Balachandran, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Sua Kim, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
- Xiaofeng Liu, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- 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, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
Instructional Faculty
- Christopher White, Lecturer, School for the Environment
- David Merwin, Senior Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Jennifer Clifford, Senior Lecturer, Economics
- Justin Drew, Senior Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Lindsey Butler, Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Vijaya Jyoti, Senior Lecturer, School for the Environment
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, 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, MassBays NEP Director, School for the Environment
- 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