Caterina Scaramelli
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short Gianotti’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to understand better how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with […]
Ian Smith
Ian Smith received a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University in spring 2023. He graduated from Boston University in 2017 with a major in Environmental Science and minor in Economics. Ian is a research scientist at Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department and is the instructor of BU URBAN’s Urban […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and 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 […]
Ian Sue Wing
Recent research by Professor Ian Sue Wing includes representing endogenous technological change in climate policy models through general equilibrium approaches. Findings include: The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution of knowledge in an intertemporal setting. The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and rate […]
Suzanna Sumkhuu
Suzanna Sumkhuu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Her research interests focus on climate change and energy economics, and their distributional impacts. Suzanna’s passion for interdisciplinary science materialized during her policy experience in the Government of Mongolia and UN agencies, where she contributed to the formulation of […]
Julia Wagner
Urban H Interests: Heat, Housing, Health Dr. Wagner’s research interests focus on how cities design and implement regulations and incentives to lower residential building emissions, particularly making residential decarbonization more accessible to low- and moderate-income households.