Caterina Scaramelli
Caterina Scaramelli, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), focuses her research on ethnographic and archival methods, how communities and individuals respond to environmental change and biodiversity loss. It also focuses on the varied ways in which competing claims about livability, justice, and ethics are entangled in visions and experiences of […]
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. […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
Richard Stuebi
Richard Stuebi, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Industry Relations Manager, Energy & Sustainability, and a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. His academic research interests relate primarily to the drivers of energy consumption, especially the antecedents of […]