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, SFE
Department: School for the Environment
Email: Carol.Thornber@umb.edu
Expertise:Core Faculty
- Antonio Raciti, Associate Professor, UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- Elizabeth Sweet, Associate Dean, School for the Environment
- Robert Chen, Dir, Grant Scholarly Initiativ, Provost's Office & Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs
- Carol Thornber, Dean, SFE, School for the Environment
- Christian Rivera, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Enrique Ramos, Assistant Professor, UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- 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, Assoc Dean, CSM & Assoc Prof, 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 of Urban Planning & Community Development , UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- Luis Santiago, Department Chair, UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- Marielle de Oliveira, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Michael Tlusty, Graduate Program Director/Professor, School for the Environment
- Chi-Kan Hung, Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor, UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- Shijuan Chen, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Sowmya Balachandran, Assistant Professor, UrbanPlanning&CommunityDevel
- Sua Kim, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
- Zong-Guo Xia, Professor, School for the Environment
Research and Adjunct Faculty
- Beth Kaplin, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
- Mark Borrelli, Hourly Research Fellow, School for the Environment
- Robert Stevenson, Associate Professor U Of M, Biology
- Stephanie Wood LaFond, Lecturer, Biology
- Stephen Curwood, Hourly Research Fellow, 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
- Lindsey Butler, Lecturer, School for the Environment
- Vijaya Jyoti, Lecturer, School for the Environment
Affiliated Faculty
- Alexander More, Associate Professor, Urban Public Health
- Amit Patel, Adjunct Faculty, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Benyamin Lichtenstein, Associate Professor, Management
- James Woods, Director, INENAS, Institute for New England Native American Studies
- David Timmons, Associate Professor, Economics
- Douglas Woodhams, Professor, Biology
- Jarrett Byrnes, Associate Professor, Biology
- José Martínez Reyes, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology
- Kimberly Hamad, Professor, Engineering
- Lisa Rivera, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Maureen Scully, Professor, Management
- Michael Johnson, Special Assistant to the Chancellor, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Roberta Wollons, Professor U of M, History
- Rosalyn Negrón, Professor of Anthropology, 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, 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, Director, MassBays, School for the Environment
- Schanna James, Departmental Resrch Admin I, School for the Environment
- Shannon Hogan, Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
- 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