People

Faculty and Staff

Lauret Savoy, Chair Environmental Studies (leave/spring)
Professor of Environmental Studies
Phone: 413-538-2125
Office: 328 Clapp Laboratory
Office hours: Monday 10:30-12:00, Wednesday 10:00-11:45, or by appointment Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Donna McKeever
Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 413-538-2898
Office: 302 Clapp Laboratory
Office hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-1:00
Doug Amy
Professor of Politics
Phone: 413-538-2667
Office: 110 Skinner Hall
Research: Voting systems; proportional representation; American politics.
Leszek Bledzki
Senior Research Associate
Phone: 413-538-3075
Office: 10E Clapp Laboratory
Jill Bubier
Marjorie Fisher Professor of Environmental Studies
Phone: 413-538-2607
Office: 308 Clapp Laboratory
Office hours: By appointment
Research: Wetland ecology; biogeochemistry; northern peatlands; plant ecology; greenhouse gases (methane, carbon dioxide); feedbacks to climate change.
Jens Christiansen (leave/year)
Professor of Economics
Phone: 413-538-2750
Office: 112 Skinner Hall
Research: Comparative macroeconomic performance of advanced capitalist economies; women and the economy; economics and the environment.
Catherine Corson
Miller Worley Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Phone: 413-538-3458
Office: 325 Clapp Laboratory
Office hours: Wednesday 9:30-10:30, or by appointment
Steven Dunn
Professor of Geology
Phone: 413-538-2531
Office: 309 Clapp Laboratory
Research: Metamorphic petrology; stable isotope geochemistry; calcite-graphite isotope thermometry; favorite field area = Grenville Province, Ontario.
Timothy Farnham
Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Phone: 413-538-3286
Office: 210 Dwight Hall
Office hours: Monday 2:00-3:30, Wednesday 10:00-11:30, or by appointment
Beth Hooker
Research Associate
Martha Hoopes (leave/year)
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Phone: 413-538-2210
Office: 214 Clapp Laboratory
Research: Conservation biology; invasion dynamics; the role of landscapes and spatial configurations in species interactions, particularly between plants and herbivores.
Girma Kebbede
Professor of Geography
Phone: 413-538-2004
Office: 408A Clapp Laboratory
Research: Ecological problems and their relationship to social, economic, and political development issues in the Horn of Africa.
Tuula Larmola
Postdoctoral Scholar
Phone: 413-538-3253
Office: 313A Clapp Laboratory
Thomas Millette (leave/fall)
Professor of Geography
Phone: 413-538-2813
Office: 411 Clapp Laboratory
Research: Remote sensing; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Environmental Planning.
Emily Monosson
Visiting Lecturer, Environmental Studies
Phone: 413-538-2898
Stan Rachootin
Professor of Biological Sciences
Phone: 413-538-2093
Office: 3D Clapp Laboratory
Research: Relation of evolution and development; comparative anatomy of invertebrates and vertebrates; projects in reconstructing nineteenth- and twentieth-century biology.
Robert Schwartz
E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History
Phone: 413-538-2465
Office: 206 Skinner Hall
Research: Environmental history of Europe from the seventeenth century to present; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; Victorian England and industrializing Britain.
Alan Werner
Professor of Geology and Geography
Phone: 413-538-2134
Office: 312A Clapp Laboratory
Research: Environmental geology; climate change; surface processes; Quaternary geology.