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Core Faculty

Peilei Fan

Professor and Department Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

(1) human-natural interactions and their impact on environment and social equity at multiple spatial scales, particularly in cities; (2) technology and development

Shomon Shamsuddin

Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning

Housing; Education; Inequality; Policy Implementation; Community Development

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

Christine Cousineau

Senior Lecturer

Kathryn Davies

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

Mary Davis

Senior Associate Vice Provost for Education

Labor economics, public health, nursing

Laurie Goldman

Senior Lecturer

Social welfare and housing policy; policy implementation; public and nonpro.t management

Justin Hollander

Land use planning; urban redevelopment; urban design; big data; shrinking cities

Lorlene Hoyt

Research Professor

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;

Hassaan Furqan Khan

Assistant Professor

water systems analysis, urban water management, environmental justice and equity

Penn Loh

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

• Solidarity economy movements and economic democracy • Community land trusts • Popular education, social movements, community organizing • Community and climate resilience.

Jeffrey Rosen

Jason and Chloe Epstein Term Professor of the Practice

Catalytic Capital Community Investing Sustainable Finance Impact Measures Impact Investing for Racial Equity

Rebecca Shakespeare

Geographic information system; urban geography; housing; critical GIS

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

Sumeeta Srinivasan

Senior Lecturer

Transportation; Health; Spatial models; Geographic Information Systems

Jon Witten

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Land use planning; local government law; natural resources policy

Affiliate Faculty

John Durant

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

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.

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.

Magaly Koch

Part-time Lecturer

Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards

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

Diana Martinez

Assistant Professor

American architecture history, global architecture history, post-colonial studies, materiality

Colin Orians

Professor and Director of Environmental Studies

Agroecology, climate change, climate adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions

Brian Roach

Senior Research Associate

Cathy Stanton

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Food systems, farm history/heritage, myth and ritual, tourism, industrial heritage, culture-led redevelopment

Thomas Stopka

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

Amy Laura Cahn

Mark Chase

Mariah Contreras

Charles Creagh

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

Sulagna Datta

Rosalind Greenstein

Kari Hewitt

Scott Horsley

Patricia Kraeger

Ariel Kraten

Dennis Murphy

David Orlinoff

Melissa Peters

Earl Phillips

Julie Salganik

Sonja Spears

Robert Terrell

Joanna Troy

Erica Walker

Emeriti Faculty

Rachel Bratt

Professor Emerita

Housing and community development

Robert Hollister

Professor Emeritus

International university civic engagement

Francine Jacobs

Associate Professor Emerita

Child and family policy program evaluation

James Jennings

Professor Emeritus

Urban and neighborhood politics; social welfare; community development

Ann Rappaport

Senior Lecturer Emerita

Environmental management and policy

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