Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

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Mary Davis

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Environmental health; occupational health; economic analysis
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Peilei Fan

Professor and Associate Chair of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
(1) human-natural interactions and their impact on environment and social equity at multiple spatial scales, particularly in cities; (2) technology and development
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Julian Agyeman

Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate
Sustainability policy and planning; environmental and food justice; intercultural cities
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Aggeliki Barberopoulou

Lecturer
Natural Hazards, hazard mitigation, historical earthquakes and tsunamis
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Christine Cousineau

Lecturer
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Kathryn Davies

Lecturer
Human dimensions of environmental change; socio-ecological system governance; equitable sustainability transformations; community resilience; coastal and marine systems
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Deborah Frieze

Professor of the Practice
Impact investing, solidarity economy, community finance, systems thinking
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Laurie Goldman

Senior Lecturer
Social welfare and housing policy; policy implementation; public and nonpro.t management
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Justin Hollander

Professor
Land use planning; urban redevelopment; urban design; big data; shrinking cities
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Lorlene Hoyt

Research Professor
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Shan Jiang

Eileen Fox Aptman, J90, and Lowell Aptman Assistant Professor
Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;
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Hassaan Furqan Khan

Assistant Professor
water systems analysis, urban water management, environmental justice and equity
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Penn Loh

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
• Solidarity economies and economic democracy • Community land trusts • Popular education, social movements, community organizing • Community and climate resilience.
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Jeffrey Rosen

Jason and Chloe Epstein Term Professor of the Practice
Catalytic Capital Community Investing Sustainable Finance Impact Measures Impact Investing for Racial Equity
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Rebecca Shakespeare

Lecturer
Geographic information system; urban geography; housing; critical GIS
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Shomon Shamsuddin

Associate Professor
Housing; Education; Inequality; Policy Implementation; Community Development
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Kristin Skrabut

Assistant Professor
Urban Anthropology and Ethnography; Global Poverty and Development; Housing and Infrastructure; Gender and Kinship; Latin American Studies; Political and Legal Anthropology
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Sumeeta Srinivasan

Senior Lecturer
Transportation; Health; Spatial models; Geographic Information Systems
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Jon Witten

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Land use planning; local government law; natural resources policy

Affiliate Faculty

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John Durant

Professor
Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology
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Patrick Florance

Director of Research Technology
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geospatial technology, the Open Geoportal (OGP), visualization, GPS, cartography, international mapping especially the developing world, humanitarian assistance, open source applications, digital humanities, ecology, data mining, human security, crisis mapping, business intelligence/analytics, geospatial new media, remote sensing, natural disasters, historical modeling, 3D GIS, public health, geospatial social network tools, data science, urban modeling, open data, geospatial data sources, geo portals, web mapping, UAV - Drones, Spatial Data Infrastructure, geospatial education, natural language processing (NLP), text analysis, etc.
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Timothy Griffin

Associate Professor
Agriculture and the Environment: This is the constant theme of my work since my undergraduate days. Within the AFE program, this incudes assessments of resource use (land, water, etc.) by current and future production strategies and systems. My current efforts are informed by having conducted decades of field and laboratory research on crop management, alternative crop development, short- and long-term effects of cropping systems on potato yield and quality, management strategies to improve soil quality, manure nitrogen and phosphorus availability, soil carbon sequestration and cycling, emission of greenhouse gases from high-value production systems, and grain production for organic dairy systems. Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems: Environmental outcomes are one of several realms or domains that are encompassed by a Sustainable Food System. The Friedman School is uniquely placed to link agriculture, nutrition and health, economics, and individual and societal well-being. Of particular interest is the role of diets as a driver of sustainability outcomes, and includes policy-oriented efforts such as my role advising the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, to include sustainability in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Interdisciplinary Education and Mentoring: The AFE program is inherently interdisciplinary, as is the Friedman School. My particular interest is to provide education and research opportunities so that students can develop the specific skills necessary to work at the interface of different disciplines or domains.
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Magaly Koch

Part-time Lecturer
Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards
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Tama Leventhal

Professor and Department Chair of Child Study & Human Development
Neighborhood and community context; housing context; family context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy; adolescence; immigrant young children
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Diana Martinez

Assistant Professor
American architecture history, global architecture history, post-colonial studies, materiality
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Colin Orians

Professor and Director of Environmental Studies
Agroecology, climate change, climate adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions
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Brian Roach

Senior Research Associate
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Cathy Stanton

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Tourism, museums, myth and ritual, cultural performance, culture-led redevelopment, mobilities, farm history/heritage I am an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of cultural anthropology and public history. My published work focuses largely on the uses of history, heritage, and culture in redevelopment projects, particularly in former industrial settings. I am particularly interested in foregrounding the presence and contributions of knowledge producers and cultural workers within processes of postindustrial transformation. My 2006 book The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City explores the role of those who helped to reframe a New England textile city for the "new economy" of the late 20th century. My current research and writing asks about the potential for workers in these settings to engage productively with the realms of advocacy and activism, particularly around issues of energy use and food production. A book project in progress, co-authored with Michelle Moon and subtitled How History Can Help Reinvent the Food System, sets out a rationale and methodology for nudging historic sites and practice into closer dialogue with the contemporary "food movement," with the goal of bringing greater historical nuance and critical complexity to present-day understandings of the dominant industrial food system and other possible models. As an engaged scholar, I have served as a consultant to the U.S. National Park Service's Ethnography Program for more than 15 years, producing a number of peer-reviewed, publicly-accessible book-length studies of military reenactments, farming, and ethnic, avocational, and seasonal communities associated with national parks. I also have an interest in digital scholarship and publication, mostly through my involvement with the National Council on Public History and its evolving digital publications (particularly its History@Work blog, of which I was the founding editor).
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Thomas Stopka

Professor
Dr. Stopka's current research focuses on the intersection of opioid use disorder, overdose, and infectious diseases (HCV, HIV, STIs, COVID-19). He employs GIS, spatial epidemiological, qualitative, biostatistical, and laboratory approaches in multi-site, interdisciplinary studies and public health interventions. He currently leads and contributes to clinical trials and observational studies funded by the NIH, CDC, and SAMHSA to assess the effectiveness of a mobile, telemedicine-based HCV treatment and harm reduction model for rural opioid users in Northern New England, to reduce opioid overdose deaths by 40% in Massachusetts, and to evaluate the overdose prevention impacts of administration of medication for opioid use disorder in houses of correction. Dr. Stopka is also Co-PI of the Tufts research priority group focused on equity in health, wealth, and civic engagement. He teaches courses in GIS and spatial epidemiology, research methods for public health, and epidemiology. He enjoys mentoring research assistants, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty in ongoing research studies and collaborative publications.

Part-time Faculty

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Amy Laura Cahn

Lecturer
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Mark Chase

Lecturer
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Mariah Contreras

Lecturer
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Charles Creagh

Lecturer
Sustainability, conservation, urban ecological systems, commute mode shift, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure planning and design
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Rosalind Greenstein

Lecturer
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Kari Hewitt

Lecturer
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Scott Horsley

Lecturer
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Ariel Kraten

Lecturer
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May Louie

Lecturer
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David Orlinoff

Lecturer
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Melissa Peters

Lecturer
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Earl Phillips

Lecturer
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Julie Salganik

Lecturer
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Sonja Spears

Lecturer
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Robert Terrell

Lecturer
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Joanna Troy

Lecturer
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Erica Walker

Lecturer

Emeriti Faculty

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Rachel Bratt

Professor Emerita
Housing and community development
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Robert Hollister

Professor Emeritus
International university civic engagement
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Francine Jacobs

Associate Professor Emerita
Child and family policy program evaluation
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James Jennings

Professor Emeritus
Urban and neighborhood politics; social welfare; community development
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Ann Rappaport

Senior Lecturer Emerita
Environmental management and policy