Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short Gianotti, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Curriculum, Earth & Environment at Boston University where her research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, wildlife management, and urban climate action. Her work investigates how various socio-political and […]
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, core 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 […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics, energy security, energy justice, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses […]
Ian Sue Wing
Ian Sue Wing, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. He conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economic adjustment […]
Estelle Sun
Estelle Sun, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an associate professor at Questrom School of Business. Her recent work examines the consequences of and firms’ responses to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of extreme weather events on stock prices, disclosures, financial reporting, and auditing, the predictive power of climate […]
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 […]
Pamela Templer
Pamela Templer, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is chair and professor in the Department of Biology and director of the PhD Program in Biogeoscience at Boston University. She is broadly interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling and carbon exchange. Dr. Templer is […]
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 […]
Eli Tucker-Raymond
Eli Tucker-Raymond, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Research Associate Professor in Language and Literacy at Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. His research works toward creating and studying anti-racist, equity-oriented learning environments for Kindergarten-aged learners through adults. Those learning environments aim for collectivity, mutuality, and a […]