Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Voss Postdoctoral Program Eligible Faculty

Voss Postdoctoral Program Eligible Faculty

The following faculty are eligible to serve as 2027 Voss postdoctoral mentors

  • Leslie Acton

    Associate Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
    Leslie_Acton@brown.edu
    Research Interests Coastal and oceans governance & politics, marine conservation, Political ecology, Common-pool resource theory

  • Rachel Baker

    John and Elizabeth Irving Family Assistant Professor of Climate Health, Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & Epidemiology
    Rachel_e_baker@brown.edu
    Research Interests Climate change impacts, Human health, Infectious disease

  • Kim Cobb

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

  • Bathsheba Demuth

    Dean's Associate Professor of Environment and Society & History
    bathsheba_demuth@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental history, Russian & North American Arctic, Climate, Energy

  • Scott Frickel

    Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology
    Scott_Frickel@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environment-society interactions, Experts and knowledge/ignorance, Social movements, Social theory, Risk and disaster, Urbanization

  • Elizabeth Fussell

    Professor (Research) of Environment and Society & Population Studies
    elizabeth_fussell@brown.edu
    Research Interests Human migration and environment, Weather-related disasters, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Social inequality

  • Meredith Hastings

    George Ide Chase Professor of Physical Sciences, Professor of Environment and Society & Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Meredith_Hastings@brown.edu
    Research Interests Atmospheric chemistry, Nitrogen biogeochemistry, Stable isotopes

  • Daniel Ibarra

    IBES Director of Early Career Development and Training, George H. Billings Assistant Professor of Environment and Society, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    daniel_ibarra@brown.edu
    Research Interests Water cycle, Paleoclimate, Carbon cycle, Isotope geochemistry, Modeling, Climate change, Critical Zone, Weathering

  • Allan Just

    Nazareth-Ferguson Family University Associate Professor of Public Health, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Environment and Society
    allan_just@brown.edu
    Research Interests Climate and health, Remote sensing, Air pollution, Epigenomics, Endocrine disruptors, Children's environmental health

  • 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
    Research Interests Conservation biology, Molecular ecology, Evolution of species interactions

  • James Kellner

    Professor of Environment and Society & Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Associate Provost for Corporate Engagement
    James_R_Kellner@brown.edu
    Research Interests Structure and dynamics of tropical forests, Remote sensing

  • Dawn King

    Deputy Dean of the College for Curriculum, Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
    Dawn_King@brown.edu
    Research Interests Local food policy and politics, US energy policy and politics, Climate change and agriculture

  • Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

    Professor of Epidemiology & Environment and Society
    marianthi_kioumourtzoglou@brown.edu
    Research Interests Air pollution, Climate and health

  • Myles Lennon

    Dean's Associate Professor of Environment and Society & Anthropology
    myles_lennon@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental anthropology, Sustainable energy policy

  • Amanda Lynch

    Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Amanda_Lynch@brown.edu
    Research Interests Polar climate modeling, Indigenous environmental knowledge, Climate policy analysis

  • Aparajita Majumdar

    Assistant Professor of History & Environment and Society
    aparajita_majumdar@brown.edu
    Research Interests historical significance of failed crops, multispecies history and ethnography, colonial and Indigenous notions of borderlands, heritage

  • Meredith Niles

    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Environment and Society
    meredith_niles@brown.edu
    Research Interests Food systems, Sustainable food security, Climate and health

  • Dev Patel

    Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Science
    dev_patel1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental issues in low- and middle-income countries, Adaptation to climate change, Nature-based solutions, Remote sensing, Weather insurance, Floods

  • Stephen Porder

    Acacia Professor of Ecology, Professor of Environment and Society & Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
    Stephen_Porder@brown.edu
    Research Interests Landscape-scale biogeochemistry in tropical forests, Tropical agriculture, Tropics

  • J Timmons Roberts

    Ittleson Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Sociology
    J_Timmons_Roberts@brown.edu
    Research Interests Climate change policy, Environmental social science, UNFCCC, Climate justice

  • Seda Şalap-Ayça

    Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences & the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
    seda_salap_ayca@brown.edu
    Research Interests Geography, GIS and spatial analysis

  • Dov Sax

    Professor of Environment and Society & Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
    Dov_Sax@brown.edu
    Research Interests Conservation biology, Species responses to climate change, Species invasions

  • Mindi Schneider

    IBES Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
    Mindi_Schneider@brown.edu
    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

  • Laurence C. Smith

    John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    laurence_smith@brown.edu
    Research Interests Arctic, Remote sensing, River hydrology

  • Kurt Teichert

    Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
    Kurt_Teichert@brown.edu
    Research Interests Sustainable design, Environmental stewardship

  • Mark Tracy

    Professor of the Practice of Sustainable Finance and Investing
    mark_tracy1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Entrepreneurship, Intersection of climate, food, finance, and technology

  • Rachel Wetts

    IBES Director of Research (Interim), Acacia Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology
    rachel_wetts@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political sociology, Environmental sociology, Race/Ethnicity, Sociology of culture, Social psychology, Organizational theory, Social theory, Computational methods, Experimental methods