Steven Schwartz
Steven Schwartz, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores how the climate crisis and the global rise of renewable energy intersect with Indigenous peoples’ environmental relations, practices of resistance, and political and economic life in Latin America. Dr. Schwartz is developing his first book […]
Henrik Selin
Henrik Selin, Affiliated Faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Dean for Studies and Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global politics, regional politics, and policy-making for the environment and sustainable development. […]
Sahar Sharifzadeh
Sahar Sharifzadeh, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), leads a research group focused on understanding and predicting functional material properties using first-principles electronic structure methods. They develop and apply these methods, which can predict, with quantitative accuracy, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials from the basic laws of […]
Andre Sharon
Andre Sharon, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), has accumulated over 20 years of experience, both academic and industrial, conducting research, developing, and deploying computer-controlled automation systems, devices and instruments for several industries, ranging from sub-micron, high-precision machinery for optoelectronics, biotech/biomedical, and semiconductor fabrication to high-speed assembly of consumer products. […]
Kayoko Shioda
Kayoko Shioda, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian working at the intersection of global health, One Health, vaccine epidemiology, and Bayesian statistics. Her research integrates veterinary medicine, epidemiological methods, mathematical modeling, and Bayesian statistics to tackle issues in infectious disease epidemiology, with two […]
Benjamin Siegel
Benjamin Siegel, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a historian of modern economic life and politics, agriculture, and the environment, with a geographic focus on South Asia and its entanglements with the wider world. His first book, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University […]
Tawnya Smith
Dr. Tawnya D. Smith, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an interdisciplinary researcher who explores expressive arts principles to promote holistic learning, wellbeing, and sustainability in music education settings. Her current research bridges across trauma and mental health, LGBTQIA+ studies, and ecopsychology and ecojustice informed music learning. Dr. Smith […]
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an assistant professor and program director, city planning and urban affairs, at Metropolitan College. Her research uses urban conflicts to examine how planning and policy shape cities and regions. Planning initiatives and policies redistribute land, resources, and power, often sparking tensions […]
Remi Trudel
Remi Trudel, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Trudel’s research focuses on consumer well-being with translational implications for business. Specifically, he explores three consumer behaviors that he believes are destructive and unsustainable to […]
Irena Vodenska
Irena Vodenska, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Finance and Director of Finance Programs at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. She is also a chair of the Administrative Sciences Department at Metropolitan College, Boston University. Her research focuses on network theory and complexity science in macroeconomics. She […]