Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Faculty Fellows and Affiliates

IBES Elected Fellows and Affiliates comprise recognized leaders from across Brown with an outstanding record of achievement and ability in diverse areas of environmental scholarship.

Elected Fellows and Affiliate Faculty

  • Linda Abriola

    Linda Abriola

    Elected IBES Fellow, Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering
  • Anna Aizer

    Anna Aizer

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics
  • Karianne Bergen

    Karianne Bergen

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Data Science, and Computer Science
  • Mark Blyth

    Mark Blyth

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of International and Public Affairs
  • Joseph Braun

    Joseph Braun

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of Children's Environmental Health
  • Kenny Iceland

    Kenny Breuer

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Engineering
  • Robert Brulle

    Robert Brulle

    Visiting Professor of Environment and Society
  • Eleanor Caves headshot

    Eleanor Caves

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
  • Xan Chacko

    Xan Chacko

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Society
  • Mark Cladis

    Mark Cladis

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religious Studies
  • Steven Clemens

    Steven Clemens

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research)
  • Jeff Colgan

    Jeff Colgan

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Director of the Climate Solutions Lab
  • Emily Cooperdock

    Emily Cooperdock

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • Lisa Di Carlo

    Lisa Di Carlo

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
  • Emanuele Di Lorenzo

    Emanuele Di Lorenzo

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • John Eason

    John Eason

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
  • Kevin Escudero

    Kevin Escudero

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies
  • Thalia Field headshot

    Thalia Field

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing
  • Rick Fleeter

    Rick Fleeter

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering
  • Andrew Foster

    Andrew Foster

    Elected IBES Fellow, George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center
  • Baylor

    Baylor Fox-Kemper

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • Tyler Franconi

    Tyler Franconi

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Archaeology & the Ancient World and Classics
  • Mara Freilich

    Mara Freilich

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • Friedhoff

    Stefanie Friedhoff

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Director of the Information Futures Lab
  • Matthew Fuxjager

    Matthew Fuxjager

    Elected IBES Fellow, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
  • Gomez-Barris

    Macarena Gomez-Barris

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Director of the Center for Environmental Humanities
  • patrick green

    Patrick Green

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
  • James Head with frozen mustache and red jacket

    James W. Head III

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research)
  • Timothy Herbert

    Timothy Herbert

    Elected IBES Fellow, Henry L. Doherty Professor of Oceanography, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
  • Peter Heywood

    Peter Heywood

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry
  • Alani Hicks-Bartlett

    Alani Hicks-Bartlett

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies
  • Blake Hodgin

    Blake Hodgin

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research)
  • Christopher Horvat

    Christopher Horvat

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Former Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Yongsong Huang

    Yongsong Huang

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
  • Robert Hurt

    Robert Hurt

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Engineering
  • Nancy Jacobs

    Nancy Jacobs

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of History
  • Agnes Kane

    Agnes Kane

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Michael D. Kennedy in an icy terrain

    Michael D. Kennedy

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
  • Matthew Kraft

    Matthew Kraft

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Education and Economics
  • Sharon Krause

    Sharon Krause

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science
  • Indrek Kulaots

    Indrek Kulaots

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Engineering
  • David Laidlaw

    David Laidlaw

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Computer Science
  • Harriet Lau

    Harriet Lau

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • Jung-Eun Lee

    Jung-Eun Lee

    Elected IBES Fellow, Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
  • Jeremy Lehnen

    Jeremy Lehnen

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Senior Lecturer in Language Studies and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • leila lehnen

    Leila Lehnen

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • Larisa Leventon

    Larisa Leventon

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Practice in the School of Engineering
  • John Logan

    John Logan

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Sociology
  • J. Brad Marston

    J. Brad Marston

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Physics
  • Kyle Denison Martin

    Kyle Denison Martin

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Patrick McHugh

    Patrick McHugh

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of the Practice of Engineering
  • Shanti Morell-Hart

    Shanti Morell-Hart

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • John Mustard

    John Mustard

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
  • Kevin Mwenda

    Kevin Mwenda

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Population Studies (Research)
  • Nitin Padture

    Nitin P. Padture

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Otis Everett Randall University Professor of Engineering, Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE)
  • G. Tayhas R. Palmore

    G. Tayhas R. Palmore

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering, Professor of Chemistry
  • Kurt Pennell

    Kurt Pennell

    Elected IBES Fellow, 250th Anniversary Professor of Engineering
  • Jessica Plavicki

    Jessica Plavicki

    Elected IBES Fellow, Manning Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Alex Poterack

    Alex Poterack

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Steven Rattner Senior Lecturer in Economics
  • Ron Potvin

    Ron Potvin

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Humanities and American Studies, Assistant Director and Curator of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study
  • Jason Protass headshot

    Jason Protass

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
  • Yue Qi

    Yue Qi

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering, Deputy Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy
  • Chris Rea headshot

    Christopher Rea

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Former Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Lukas Rieppel

    Lukas Rieppel

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of History, Director of Science, Technology, and Society
  • Jerome Robinson

    Jerome Robinson

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Chemistry
  • Gabriel Rocha

    Gabriel Rocha

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of Early Modern Portuguese History
  • Elizabeth Rush

    Elizabeth Rush

    Elected IBES Fellow, Assistant Professor of the Practice, English Nonfiction Writing Program
  • James Russell

    James Russell

    Elected IBES Fellow, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
  • Neil Safier

    Neil Safier

    Elected IBES Fellow, Associate Professor of History
  • David Savitz

    David Savitz

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Andrew Scherer

    Andrew Scherer

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World
  • Ankur Shah

    Ankur Shah

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Katherine Smith

    Katherine Smith

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Senior Associate Dean for Biology and Curricular Affairs, Associate Professor of Medical Science
  • Daniel Spade

    Daniel Spade

    Elected IBES Fellow, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Eric Suuberg

    Eric Suuberg

    Elected IBES Fellow, C.V. Starr Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship, Professor of Engineering
  • Ellen Tohn

    Ellen Tohn

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Practice of Epidemiology
  • Victor Tsai

    Victor Tsai

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
  • Matthew Turner

    Matthew Turner

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Economics
  • Peter van Dommelen

    Peter van Dommelen

    Elected IBES Fellow, Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology
  • N. Parker VanValkenburgh

    N. Parker VanValkenburgh

    Elected IBES Fellow, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology & the Ancient World
  • erica walker

    Erica Walker

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
  • Terrie Fox Wetle

    Terrie Fox Wetle

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Professor Emerita of Health Services, Policy and Practice
  • Monica Martinez Wilhelmus

    Monica Martinez Wilhelmus

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Thomas J. and Alice M. Tisch Assistant Professor of Engineering
  • Jon Witman

    Jon Witman

    Elected IBES Fellow, Professor of Biology
  • Ernesto R. Zaldivar

    Ernesto R. Zaldivar

    IBES Affiliate Faculty, Associate Professor of the Practice of Engineering and Computer Science