The SDPEG graduate faculty members are diverse in their disciplinary backgrounds, areas of research, and forms of scholarship.
| Name/Bio link | Accepting New Students | Research/Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Anaka Aiyar | Yes (L4E only) | Food Systems, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Health Economics |
| Joe Ament | Yes (L4E only) | Monetary theory, ecological economics, degrowth, embeddedness, ecofeminist political ecology, labour theory, post-liberal theory. |
| Christina Barsky | No | Election Science and Administration, Public Service Delivery, Community-Engaged Scholarship, Pedagogy of Teaching and Learning, Public Policy and Governance, Elections |
| Brian Beckage | No | Forest ecology, theoretical ecology, and statistics |
| Pablo Bose | No | Refugee resettlement in non-traditional destinations, food and migration, environmental displacement, kolkata and Globalization, technology, education and representation. |
| David Conner | No | The intersection of food systems and community development. |
| Elizabeth Doran | Yes | Urban climate; water quality best management practices; land use and land cover change; social-ecological systems; complex dynamic systems modeling. |
| Joshua Farley | Yes | Ecological economics, the evolution of cooperation (multi-level selection theory), social dilemmas, essential resources (food, energy, knowledge, ecosystem services, etc.), the Commons, degrowth, agroecology, money and finance for a finite planet, non-monetary valuation, complex adaptive systems, and philosophy of science. |
| Kelsey Gleason | Yes | Global health, humanitarian crises, climate change, forced and climate-related displacement, refugee studies. |
| Donna Ramirez Harrington | No | Environmental economics and policy, environmental regulation, environmental innovation, technology adoption and technical change, and corporate environmental strategy. |
| Maki Hatanaka | No | Sociology of food and agriculture, Sustainability governance, Supply chain management, Political economy, and Sustainability advocacy. |
| Jason Konefal | Yes | Sociology of Food and Agriculture, Environmental Sociology, Governance and Sustainability, and Social Movements and Social Change. |
| Kate Mays | Yes (L4E only) | Human-machine communication, social impact of emerging technologies, human-centered artificial intelligence, AI governance and ethics, mixed methods. |
| Travis Reynolds | No | Food policy. food security, agricultural development, sustainable agriculture, and rural livelihoods |
| Gregory Rowangould | No | Transportation System and Land-use Modeling, Mobile Source Emissions and Air Quality Analysis, Regional Transportation Planning, Transportation Policy Analysis, and Active Travel (bicycling and walking). |
| Dana Rowangould | No | Rural travel behavior, transportation equity and justice, transportation and land use planning, energy use and air quality, and multi-modal transportation. |
| Stephanie Seguino | No | Macroeconomics and development, racial and gender inequality. |
| Trisha Shrum | No | Environmental behavior; Climate change; Climate narrative analysis; Environmental Policy |
| Daniel Tobin | No | Sociology of agriculture, Development Sociology, Political economy of agricultural development, Crop diversity conservation, and Seed Systems. |
| Andrew J. Van Leuven | No | Regional economics, community development, entrepreneurship, data science & visualization. |
| Qingbin Wang | No | Microeconomics, market analysis, econometrics, international trade |
| Asim Zia | No | Computational policy analysis, governance networks, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems. |
Director of the SDPEG Ph.D. Program
Director of the Sustainable Development Policy, Economics, and Governance Ph.D. program • Associate Professor • Graduate Faculty, Food Systems • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Daniel.Tobin@uvm.eduGraduate Student Support
Graduate Student Coordinator • CDAE MS Candidate • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Lindsey.Bouzan@uvm.edu