Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Leadership

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Leadership

Leadership Team

IBES Leadership develops and implements the Institute’s ongoing research initiatives and educational programs, and provides intellectual guidance for its multidisciplinary community of affiliated scholars and students.

  • Kim Cobb

    Kim Cobb

    Lawrence and Barbara Margolis Director of IBES, Professor of Environment and Society & Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Kim_Cobb@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Tropical Pacific climate, Coral reefs, Global water cycle, Climate data-model intercomparison, Coastal climate resilience, Urban heat islands
  • Katie Silberman

    Katie Silberman

    Director of Strategic Operations
    katie_silberman@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Strategic initiatives, Communications, Public and alumni engagement, Advancement
  • Scott Frickel

    Scott Frickel

    Director of Research - IBES, Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology
    Scott_Frickel@brown.edu
    401-863-2139
    Research Interests Environment-society interactions, Experts and knowledge/ignorance, Social movements, Social theory, Risk and disaster, Urbanization
  • Daniel Ibarra

    Daniel Ibarra

    Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - IBES, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences & Environment and Society
    daniel_ibarra@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Water cycle, Paleoclimate, Carbon cycle, Isotope geochemistry, Modeling, Climate change, Critical Zone, Weathering
  • James Kellner

    James Kellner

    Director of Early Career Development and Training - IBES, Associate Professor of Environment and Society & Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
    James_R_Kellner@brown.edu
    401-863-5768
    Website
    Research Interests Structure and dynamics of tropical forests, Remote sensing
  • Mindi Schneider

    Mindi Schneider

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Lecturer in Environment and Society
    Mindi_Schneider@brown.edu
    401-863-5909
    Website
    Research Interests Agriculture, Agrarian change, Development sociology, Land, Land and environmental justice, Commodity studies, Historical sociology, Political ecology, Social reproduction and feminist political economy/ecology, Waste and discard studies

Curriculum Committee

The IBES Curriculum Committee modifies track options as needed, examines ways to improve and expand the curriculum, and assesses requests for substitutions.

  • Leslie Acton

    Leslie Acton

    Lecturer in Environment and Society
    Leslie_Acton@brown.edu
    Research Interests Coastal and oceans governance & politics, marine conservation, Political ecology, Common-pool resource theory
  • Tyler Kartzinel

    Tyler Kartzinel

    Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Associate Professor of Environment and Society, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
    tyler_kartzinel@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Conservation biology, Molecular ecology, Evolution of species interactions
  • Mindi Schneider

    Mindi Schneider

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Lecturer in Environment and Society
    Mindi_Schneider@brown.edu
    401-863-5909
    Website
    Research Interests Agriculture, Agrarian change, Development sociology, Land, Land and environmental justice, Commodity studies, Historical sociology, Political ecology, Social reproduction and feminist political economy/ecology, Waste and discard studies