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Chair
Barry Chernoff
Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental StudiesShow Bio and Photo![]() | Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies |
BS SUNY at Stony Brook
MS Adelphi University
PHD University of Michigan
BIOL312 - 01
Conservation Aquat Ecosystems
BIOL401 - 08
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
BIOL507 - 01
Evolution Journal Club I
BIOL591 - 02
Advanced Research, Graduate
BIOL508 - 01
Evolution Journal Club II
ENVS201 - 01
Research Methods in ENVS
http://bchernoff.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Fall 2011 M 10:30-12:00 COE 201 (284 High St.) Th 3:00-4:00 in in Exley 327 or 331 or by appointment
Scholarly Keywords:Systematics and biogeography of freshwater fishes of Latin America; morphological evolution; conservation of aquatic ecosystems.
Faculty
Frederick Cohan
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Professor of Biology |
BS Stanford University
PHD Harvard University
BIOL421 - 09
Undergraduate Research, Scienc
BIOL589 - 04
Advanced Research, BA/MA
BIOL591 - 07
Advanced Research, Graduate
BIOL182 - 01
Principles of Biology II
BIOL196 - 01
Honors Biology II
BIOL508 - 01
Evolution Journal Club II
http://fcohan.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:By appointment.
Scholarly Keywords:Evolutionary genetics, speciation, systematics, and biogeography of bacteria.
http://fcohan.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Marc Eisner
Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public PolicyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public Policy |
BA University of Wisconsin
MA Marquette University
PHD University of Wisconsin
CSS391 - 01
Sr Col: Political Economy
ENVS403 - 03
Senior Essay
GOVT206 - 01
Public Policy
GOVT221 - 01
Environmental Policy
GOVT374 - 01
Political Economy and Policy
http://meisner.web.wesleyan.edu/profile/eisner.htm
Office Hours:Tuesday 9-12
Research Interests:Books include: Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics (University of North Carolina Press, 1991), Regulatory Politics in Transition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 2nd ed., 2000), The State in the American Political Economy (Prentice-Hall, 1995), Contemporary Regulatory Policy (Lynne Rienner, 2000, 2nd. ed., 2006), From Warfare State to Welfare State (Penn State University Press, 2000), Governing the Environment (Lynne Rienner, 2007), and The American Political Economy (Routledge, 2011).
Scholarly Keywords:American political economy and public policy with a focus on regulation, environmental policy and governance.
American Political Science Association
Paul Erickson
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo![]() | Assistant Professor of History |
BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2011-2012
Giulio Gallarotti
Professor of GovernmentShow Bio and Photo![]() | Professor of Government |
BA Hunter College
PHD Columbia University
CSS409 - 25
Senior Thesis Tutorial
GOVT419 - 01
Student Forum
CSS330 - 01
Jr. Tut: Intl. Econ. Relations
CSS330 - 02
Jr. Tut: Intl. Econ. Relations
GOVT155 - 01
International Politics
GOVT155 - 02
International Politics
http://ggallarotti.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Monday, Wednesday 10:30-11:30 am
Lori Gruen
Professor of PhilosophyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Professor of Philosophy |
BA University of Colorado Boulder
PHD University of Colorado Boulder
COL409 - 38
Senior Thesis Tutorial
PHIL215 - 01
Humans, Animals, and Nature
PHIL250 - 01
History of Political Philosoph
PHIL409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
PHIL278 - 01
Topics in Political Philosophy
http://lgruen.web.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:I will be in my Russell House office from 12-1 on Thursdays and alternate Tuesdays and am available by appointment. Please contact me by e-mail.
Research Interests:My research lies at the intersection of ethical theory and ethical practice. I have written on a range of topics in practical ethics and am currently concentrating on the ethical implications of human interactions with non-human animals and the rest of nature.
Scholarly Keywords:Ethics (normative and practical), Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy
Mary Alice Haddad
Associate Professor of GovernmentShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Government |
BA Amherst College
MA University of Washington
PHD University of Washington
EAST409 - 10
Senior Thesis Tutorial
GOVT297 - 01
Politics in China
GOVT304 - 01
Environmental Politics
GOVT157 - 02
Democracy & Dictatorship
GOVT296 - 01
Politics in Japan
http://mahaddad.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Wednesday 1-2:30, Thursday 11-12 and by appointment
Elijah Huge
Assistant Professor of ArtShow Bio and Photo![]() | Assistant Professor of Art |
BA Yale University
MAR Yale University
ARST407 - 03
Senior Tutorial
ARST409 - 10
Senior Thesis Tutorial
ARST435 - 01
Architecture I
ARST491 - 03
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
ARST435 - 01
Architecture I
ARST436 - 01
Architecture II
http://www.peripheryprojects.com
Office Hours:Fall 2011 Thursday 4:00-5:00 and by appointment ehuge@wesleyan.edu 104 Studio North
Scholarly Keywords:Elijah Huge is an architect and director of the design firm Periphery. Exploring the interactions between landscape, regulatory systems, and architecture, his work includes award-winning competition entries for the High Line (New York, NY), the Bourne Bridge|Park (Bourne, MA), and the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial (Tangshan, China). His writings and design work have been featured in Praxis, Thresholds, Perspecta, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Dwell, Journal of Architectural Education, and Competitions.
A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, he received the AIA Henry Adams Medal and was editor of Perspecta 35: Building Codes. His current scholarly research examines the historical emergence of architectural emergency devices, from the automatic sprinkler head to the Vonduprin panic bar.
At Wesleyan, Elijah Huge leads the architecture studio track and the atelier North Studio within the Department of Art & Art History. Focused on developing and producing research and conceptually driven projects with real-world clients, North Studio is both a locus for architectural design education within the context of Wesleyan University's liberal arts curriculum and a laboratory for design research and fabrication.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/northstudio
Katja Kolcio
Associate Professor of DanceShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Dance |
MA University of Georgia Athens
PHD Ohio State University
MA Ohio State University
DANC215 - 01
Modern Dance II
DANC377 - 01
Perspectives In Dance As Cultu
DANC409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
DANC111 - 02
Introduction to Dance
Fall 2012 office hour: Tuesday 1:30-3 and Thursday 11-12. CFA Dance and Theater room 110. Please call/email ahead.
Research Interests:Katja Kolcio, PhD. is Associate Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University. Her research is in social somatic theory and research methodology, investigating the role of physical engagement and creativity in practices of knowledge production, and in twentieth century dance history. Katja's choreography engages the community and environment within which it occurs. Her interests include integrating traditional arts into contemporary performance. Publications: Movable Pillars Creating a Foundation for Dance Studies in the Academy, 1956-1978 (2010, Wesleyan University Press), Faking It: The Necessary Blind Spots of Understanding (2009, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies), A Somatic Engagement of Technology (2005, International Journal for Performance Art and Digital Media), Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founding of Six National Dance Organizations (2000, American Dance Guild, nominated for the De La Torre Bueno Prize), and book reviews in the Dance Research Journal and the New England Theater Journal. Choreography: Katja has received choreographic fellowships from the New York State Council of the Arts and Meet the Composer, and has been commissioned to create original choreography for Yara Arts Group (NYC), Ukrainian Stage Ensemble, Wittenberg College, Duke University, Ohio State University (Slavic Studies Program), Antioch College, New York University (Department of Music). Choreography has been presented at Judson Church, New York University Black Box Theater, St. Marks Church, The Ukrainian Museum of New York, The Bridge for Dance, La Mama Experimental Theatre, the Ukrainian Institute of America, various community gardens throughout NYC, the Honchar Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine), Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and in colleges around the United States. Katja received her PhD in Somatics/Cultural Studies and her MA in Dance from Ohio State University and her MA in Political Science from University of Georgia.
Scholarly Keywords:Social somatic theory.
Research methodology.
Radical pedagogy.
Modern dance technique.
Congress on Research in Dance
American Dance Guild
Society of Dance History Scholars
Shevchenko Ukrainian Society of Knowledge
http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6911-9.html
Daniel Krizanc
Professor of Computer ScienceShow BioProfessor of Computer Science |
BS University of Toronto
PHD Harvard University
COMP133 - 01
Cryptography
COMP351 - 01
Cryptography &Network Security
COMP421 - 01
Undergraduate Research, Scienc
COMP589 - 02
Advanced Research, BA/MA
COMP591 - 01
Advanced Research, Graduate
BIOL265 - 01
Bioinformatics Programming
COMP112 - 01
Introduction to Programming
http://dkrizanc.web.wesleyan.edu
Scholarly Keywords:Analysis of algorithms
Clement Loo
Mellon Fellow, College of the EnvironmentShow BioMellon Fellow, College of the Environment |
BA University Calgary
MA University Calgary
PHD University Cincinnati
ENVS201 - 01
Research Methods in ENVS
PHIL270 - 01
Environmental Philosophy
Elizabeth Milroy
Professor of Art HistoryShow Bio and Photo![]() | Professor of Art History |
BA Queens University
MA Williams College
PHD University of Pennsylvania
AMST205 - 01
Managing the Past
AMST409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial
ARHA270 - 01
Rebellion & Representation
ARHA409 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial
ARHA276 - 01
The First Gilded Age
Tuesdays 1-2:30 (drop in hours) 201 Davison Art Center
Research Interests:Elizabeth Milroy teaches the history of art and material culture in North America. Her courses range from general surveys of art in the United States and Canada from First Contact to 1945, to courses treating the history of sculpture and courses in the history of cultural landscapes and historic preservation to advanced seminars in cultural institutions and exhibitionary practices as well as the work of individual artists such as Thomas Eakins and Georgia O'Keeffe. She also teaches a junior colloquium on material culture studies for the America Studies program. A specialist in the history of cultural institutions and cultural landscapes in the United States, in particular those in Philadelphia, she has organized exhibitions and has published numerous articles and catalogue essays. Her most recent publications include "For the like Uses, as the Moore-Fields: The Politics of Penns Squares,"in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2006); "Repairing the Myth and Reality of Penn's Squares: 1800-1850," in Change Over Time (2011). Her essay, Pro Bono Publico: Ecology, History and the Creation of Philadelphias Fairmount Park System is forthcoming in Natures Entrepot: Philadelphias Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds, edited by Michael Chiarrappa and Brian Black (University of Pittsburgh Press; for 2012). Her current book project is "The Grid and the River: A History of Philadelphia's Green Spaces, 1682-1876."
Scholarly Keywords:American Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries
Canadian Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries
Cultural Landscape Studies
Material Culture Studies
College Art Association
American Studies Association
American Society for Environmental History
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
External Examiner, Sothebys Institute of Art (University of Manchester, UK), 2007-10
Winterthur Portfolio Editorial Board
NEH Research Fellowship, 2002 Project Grant, Wesleyan University, 2001 Pedagogical Grant, Wesleyan University 1997/98 Keck Mentorship Grant. Wesleyan University 1997 Charles Peterson Fellowship in Architectural History. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1996/97 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1996 Mellon Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia 1995 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1992 Mellon Residential Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society 1992 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 1992 NEH Summer Stipend 1992 NEH Travel to Collections Grant 1992 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Grant 1991 NEH Exhibition Planning Grant 1989 Penfield Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1983
J. Donald Moon
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social StudiesShow Bio and Photo![]() | Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies |
BA University of Minnesota Minneapolis
MA University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of Minnesota Minneapolis
CSS409 - 31
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CSPL201 - 01
Foundations Civic Engagement
GOVT159 - 01
The Moral Basis of Politics
http://www.wesleyan.edu/gov/moon.html
Office Hours:Fall, 2010. Mondays 10:30 to 11:30 and Wednesdays, 4:10 to 5:30, and by appointment. Please e-mail me to make an appointment.
Suzanne O'Connell
Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental SciencesShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
BA Oberlin College
MS SUNY at Albany
PHD Columbia University
CHEM241 - 01
Science Pedagogy for Elem Scho
E&ES121 - 01
Science on the Radio
E&ES491 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
E&ES199 - 01
Intro to Environmental Science
Tuesdays 2-2:30, in Exley. Other times by appointment. Email is the best way to contact me.
Peter Patton
Alan M. Dachs Professor of ScienceShow Bio and Photo![]() | Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science |
BA Franklin & Marshall
MS Colorado State University
PHD University of Texas Austin
MAA Wesleyan University
E&ES397 - 01
Senior Seminar
E&ES557 - 01
Advanced Research Seminars
E&ES317 - 01
Hydrology
E&ES319 - 01
Hydrology Laboratory
E&ES398 - 01
Senior Field Research Project
E&ES557 - 01
Advanced Research Seminars
Earl Phillips
Visiting Instructor in Environmental StudiesShow BioVisiting Instructor in Environmental Studies |
Spring 2012
ENVS285 - 01
Environmental Law & Policy
Helen Poulos
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Mellon Environmental Studies ProgramShow BioPostdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Mellon Environmental Studies Program |
BS Pepperdine University
MS Pennsylvania State University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
BIOL346 - 01
The Forest Ecosystem
ENVS201 - 01
Research Methods in ENVS
Joseph Rouse
Hedding Professor of Moral ScienceShow Bio and Photo![]() | Hedding Professor of Moral Science |
BA Oberlin College
MA Northwestern University
PHD Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHIL258 - 01
Post-Kantian European Phil
SISP409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Fall 2011: M 3-4 Russell House 202 W 11-12 Allbritton 209 Th 11-12 Allbritton 209 other meetings by appointment, usually in Russell House 202. Spring 2012: On sabbatical, but teaching one course postponed from fall and chairing SiSP
Research Interests:Professor Rouse specializes in the philosophy of science, the history of 20th C. philosophy, and interdisciplinary science studies. His primary foci within these areas include the philosophy of scientific practice; naturalism and anti-naturalism in 20th Century philosophy; connections between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy; relations between philosophy of science and philosophy of mind/language and metaphysics; cultural studies of science and feminist science studies. He is currently working on a book on conceptual understanding in science and in discursive practice generally.
Scholarly Keywords:Philosophy of Science
20th Century Philosophy
Social and Historical Studies of Science
American Philosophical Association
Philosophy of Science Association
History of Science Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
International Society for Phenomenological Studies
Society for Literature and Science
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/publication-list/
Dana Royer
Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental SciencesShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
BA University of Pennsylvania
PHD Yale University
E&ES397 - 01
Senior Seminar
E&ES409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial
E&ES229 - 01
Geobiology Laboratory
E&ES233 - 01
Geobiology
http://droyer.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours:open door policy and by appointment
Research Interests:I explore how plants can be used to reconstruct ancient environments, and the (paleo-) physiological underpinnings behind these plant-environment relationships. Recent and current projects include the reconstruction of early Paleogene and middle Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the stomatal distributions in plant leaves, and the development of mechanistically-grounded proxies for climate and leaf ecology from the size and shape of fossil leaves. I also compile Phanerozoic carbon dioxide records and investigate the strength of carbon dioxide-temperature coupling over multi-million-year timescales.
Scholarly Keywords:Global change; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; carbon cycle; paleobotany; plant physiology
Michael Singer
Associate Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Biology |
BS University of Southern California
PHD University of Arizona
BIOL220 - 01
Conservation Biology
BIOL507 - 01
Evolution Journal Club I
BIOL589 - 01
Advanced Research, BA/MA
BIOL591 - 16
Advanced Research, Graduate
E&ES419 - 01
Student Forum
BIOL316 - 01
Plant-Animal Interactions
BIOL508 - 01
Evolution Journal Club II
http://msinger.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Fall 2011: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3 PM and by appointment.
Scholarly Keywords:Evolution and ecology of plant-insect interactions (research focus), general ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity science, entomology, botany, animal behavior, evolutionary biology
Laura Stark
Assistant Professor of SociologyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
BS Cornell University
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
CHUM360 - 01
Social Life of the Modern Fact
SISP401 - 01
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
SISP409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial
SOC409 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial
SISP262 - 01
Sociology of Medicine
SOC212 - 01
Sociology and Social Theory
http://ljstark.faculty.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours:Monday, 2:30-3:30 p.m., or by appointment, Allbritton 207 X3205
Scholarly Keywords:Science and Medicine;
Sociology of Ethics and Morality;
Law and Regulation;
Healthcare;
Social Theory;
Ethnographic and Historical Methods
Brian Stewart
Associate Professor of PhysicsShow Bio and Photo![]() | Associate Professor of Physics |
BS Stanford University
PHD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PHYS113 - 01
General Physics I
PHYS123 - 01
General Physics Laboratory I
PHYS123 - 02
General Physics Laboratory I
PHYS123 - 03
General Physics Laboratory I
PHYS123 - 04
General Physics Laboratory I
PHYS421 - 06
Undergraduate Research, Scienc
PHYS591 - 08
Advanced Research, Graduate
PHYS313 - 01
Classical Dynamics
PHYS588 - 01
Seminar in Chemical Physics
http://bstewart.web.wesleyan.edu/stewartresearch.html
William Stowe
Benjamin Waite Professor of the English LanguageShow Bio and Photo![]() | Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language |
BA Princeton University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
ENGL201B - 01
Ways of Reading: Lit&Perfor
ENGL401 - 17
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
ENGL234 - 01
Scripts and Shows
Fall 2011: Tuesday 2:00-4:00PM and by appointment Location: 294 High Street, room 304.
Sonia Sultan
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo![]() | Professor of Biology |
BA Princeton University
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University
BIOL421 - 05
Undergraduate Research, Scienc
BIOL507 - 01
Evolution Journal Club I
BIOL557 - 01
Adv Research Seminars in Bio
BIOL591 - 12
Advanced Research, Graduate
BIOL290 - 01
Plant Form And Diversity
BIOL508 - 01
Evolution Journal Club II
Mondays 4-5 PM and by appointment.
Scholarly Keywords:Evolutionary ecology of plants
Ecological developmental biology
Evolutionary theory
http://sultanlab.research.wesleyan.edu/
Erika Taylor
Assistant Professor of ChemistryShow Bio and Photo![]() | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
BS University of Michigan
PHD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CHEM251 - 01
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 02
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 03
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 04
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 05
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 06
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 07
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM251 - 08
Organic Chemistry I
CHEM409 - 13
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CHEM421 - 12
Undergraduate Research, Scienc
CHEM587 - 01
Seminar In Biological Chem
CHEM589 - 07
Advanced Research, BA/MA
CHEM591 - 14
Advanced Research, Graduate
CHEM321 - 01
Biomedicinal Chemistry
CHEM588 - 01
Seminar in Biological Chem
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/taylor/
Office Hours:Tues 10-noon, Wed 10-noon or by appointment.
Research Interests:Biological Chemistry: Research focusing on enzyme mechanism determination, gene function assignment, transition-state and mechanism-based inhibitor design, and directed evolution of enzyme function
Academic Associations:American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Microbiology
Johan Varekamp
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth ScienceShow Bio and Photo![]() | Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science |
BS University of Utrecht
MS University of Utrecht
PHD University of Utrecht
SP
IT
GE
FR
DU
INF
E&ES409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
E&ES591 - 05
Advanced Research, Graduate
ENVS361 - 01
Living in a Polluted World
http://www.wesleyan.edu/ees/JCV/varekamp.html
Office Hours:open door policy
Research Interests:Volcanic Lakes (acid and hot lakes on active volcanoes, volcano monitoring, environmental impacts, relations with ore deposition) Environmental Geochemistry (Mercury pollution and dispersal, links with biosphere) Environmental History from sediment cores (Sea level rise records from salt marshes, water quality records from LIS, climate records from LIS) Modelling (energy budget models for lakes, lake mixing models, climate models, stable isotope models)
Scholarly Keywords:Environmental Chemistry
Volcanology
Climate Change
LIS research $128K, $123K Hg research $57K Metal pollution research $22K Public Science writing $2K
Publications:http://www.wesleyan.edu/ees/JCV/publications.html
Krishna Winston
Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and LiteratureShow Bio and Photo![]() | Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature |
BA Smith College
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
GE
GRST409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial
M 9/26 3-5 PM T 9/27 9-11AM W 9/28 12-2 PM Th 9/29 4-6 PM F 9/30 9-11 AM and by appointment
Research Interests:Literary translation; translator for the German authors Guenter Grass and Peter Handke; German literary exiles
Scholarly Keywords:--20th-century German and Austrian drama and fiction
--Thomas Mann, Oedoen von Horvath
--The German Volksstueck
--Literary translation
AATG
MLA
ALTA
PEN
Society for Exile Studies
Jamie Workman
Fellow of the College of the EnvironmentShow BioFellow of the College of the Environment |
BA Yale University
ENVS295 - 01
Unlocking the Worth of Water
Gary Yohe
Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental StudiesShow Bio and Photo![]() | Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies |
BA University of Pennsylvania
MA SUNY at Stony Brook
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
ECON110 - 02
Intro to Economic Theory
ECON401 - 10
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
ECON409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial
ECON491 - 02
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
ENVS310 - 01
Economics of Vulnerability
http://gyohe.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:Monday 10:30-noon; Wednesday 10:30am-noon & by appointment
Scholarly Keywords:GARY W. YOHE is the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University; he has been on the faculty at Wesleyan for more than 30 years. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1975. Most of his work has focused attention on the mitigation and adaptation/impacts sides of the climate issue. He is a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Involved with the Panel since the mid 1990s, he served as a Lead Author for four different chapters in the Third Assessment Report that was published in 2001 and as Convening Lead Author for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report. It that Assessment, he also worked with the Core Writing Team to prepare the overall Synthesis Report. Dr. Yohe is also a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the standing Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Hidden (climate change) Cost of Oil on March 30, 2006, the Senate Energy Committee on the Stern Review on February 14, 2007, and the Senate Banking Committee on Material Risk from Climate Change and Climate Policy on October 31, 2007. In addition to accepting an invitation to join the Adaptation Subcommittee of the Governors Steering Committee on Climate Change (CT), he is serving on the Adaptation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences initiative on Americas Climate Choices, National Research Council Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, The Sustainability Leadership Council of the Green Education Foundation and the National Research Council Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, 2009-2010
Member of the Earth Science Applications and Societal Objectives Panel of the Earth Science and Applications from Space Panel of the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council of the National Academies, 2005 2006.
Member of the Board of Editors (with H.J. Schellnhuber, W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, and T. Wigley), for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2005 the Proceedings of the Symposium on Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change hosted by Tony Blair in Exeter, UK in February of 2005. Consult http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue.
Member of Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee for the United States Department of Energy by the Secretary of Energy. 2006-present.
Convening Lead Author of Chapter 20 in the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability", Consult http://ipcc.ch.
Member of the Core Writing Team for the Synthesis Report of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Consult http://ipcc.ch.
Testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Hidden (climate change) Cost of Oil on March 30, 2006, the Senate Energy Committee on the Stern Review on February 14, 2007, and the Senate Banking Committee on Material Risk from Climate Change and Climate Policy on October 31, 2007.
Member of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Science, 2007-present.
Member of the New York (City) Panel on Climate Change, August 2008-present.
Member, Adaptation Subcommittee of the Governor's (CT) Steering Committee on Climate Change, 2008-2010.
Member, National Research Council Committee on America's Climate Choices: Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, 2008-2011.
Member, National Research Council Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2009-2010.
Member, The Sustainability Leadership Council of the Green Education Foundation since June of 2009; see www.greeneducationfoundation.org.
Member, National Research Council Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, 2009-2010.
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