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A Partnership Among Tufts University's:
School of Arts and Sciences
School of Engineering
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Medical School
The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
School of Veterinary Medicine

 

WSSS FACULTY & RESEARCH AREAS

Name and School/Department Contact Information Research Interests
Co-Chairs  

Paul Kirshen (Director and Co-Chair)
Civil and Environmental Engineering

paul.kirshen@tufts.edu
(617) 627-5589
Integrated Management and Planning, Climate and Environmental Change, Water Resources Engineering

Beatrice Rogers (Co-Chair)
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Fletcher, Family Medicine and Community Health

beatrice.rogers@tufts.edu
(617) 627-2292

Implementing interdisciplinary graduate curricula, Economics, Food Policy 
School of Arts & Sciences  

Jonathan Kenny (School Coordinator)
Chemistry, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Chemistry (Director), and American Studies 

jonathan.kenny@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3397

Characterization of natural and contaminant organics in surface water and sediments 

Frank Ackerman
Global Development and Environment Institute

frank.ackerman@tufts.edu
(617) 627-6957

Environmental Economics.  The economics of climate change, energy, materials and waste, and the relationship between trade and the environment. 

Julian Agyeman
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

julian.agyeman@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3394

Environmental justice and sustainability; the characteristics of sustainable communities; social marketing and sustainability; community involvement in local environmental and sustainability policy and education for sustainability. 

Astier Almedom
Institute for Global Leadership
The Fletcher School

astier-m.almedom@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3249

Author of the widely disseminated and used field handbook Hygiene Evaluation Procedures now available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Editorial Advisory Board Member of Waterlines: International Journal of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation.

Lawrence Bacow
President, Tufts University, and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department

bacow@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3300

Environmental Economics and Policy 
Brett Baden
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
brett.baden@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3394

Urban and Environmental Economics and Policy

Dale Bryan
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

dale.bryan@tufts.edu
(617) 627-2261

Watershed Restoration, Environmental Justice, and Environmental Movements, and Environmental Leadership. 

Scott Horsley
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

shorsley@cape.com
(617) 627-3394

Wetlands Protection, Stormwater Management and Watershed Protection 

Sheldon Krimsky
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3394

Environmental Policy and Ethics, focusing on the linkages between science/technology, ethics/values and public policy. 

David O'Leary
University Chaplain, Chaplain's Office

david.oleary@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3427

Comparative Religion and Ethics 

Ann Rappaport
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

ann.rappaport@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-2269

Environmental Science and Management, focusing on enterprise-level decision making with respect to the environment, institutional responses to climate change, voluntary initiatives related to companies and the environment, and contemporary issues in corporate social responsibility. 

Michael Reed
Biology

michael.reed@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3544

Ecology and Conservation, Wetlands.  Identifying characteristics of species that put them at risk to human-caused threats, understanding why (or how) these characteristics put a species at risk, and determining how best to reduce the risk. 
Rusty Russell
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
rusty.russell@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3394
Environmental Law

Albert Robbat, Jr.
Chemistry

Albert Robbat
(617) 627-3474

Ecology and Conservation, Wetlands.  Identifying characteristics of species that put them at risk to human-caused threats, understanding why (or how) these characteristics put a species at risk, and determining how best to reduce the risk. 

Jay Shimshack
Department of Economics

Jay.Shimshack@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-5947

Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and Policy: the regulation and the monitoring and enforcement of environmental legislation. 

Sherman Teichman
Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship, EPIIC

sherman.teichman@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3314

Global Issues and Leadership 

David Walt
Chemistry

david.walt@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3470

Sensors and Pathogen Detection.  Application of enzymes and cells to organic synthesis; enzyme mechanistic studies; preparation of fiber optic chemical sensors; immunochemistry, polymeric microstructures, artificial sensing systems, combinatorial chemistry. 

Jon Witten
University of Environmental Policy and Planning

jwitte01@emerald.tufts.edu
(617) 627-3394

Land use planning, land use law and land use litigation. 
School of Engineering  

Paul Kirshen (School Coordinator)
Civil and Environmental Engineering

paul.kirshen@tufts.edu
(617) 627-5589
Integrated Management and Planning, Climate and Environmental Change, Water Resources Engineering
Richard Vogel
Civil and Environmental Engineering
richard.vogel@tufts.edu
(617) 627-4260
Hydrology and water resources engineering: optimal water allocation, decision support systems, hydromorphology, watershed modeling and management, and environmental statistics. 
Linda Abriola 
Dean, School of Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Department 
linda.abriola@tufts.edu
(617) 627- 3237
Mathematical Modeling and Laboratory Experiments Pertaining to the transport and Fate of Organic Chemical Contaminants in Porous Media, Aquifer Remediation Technologies
Steve Chapra
Civil and Environmental Engineering
steven.chapra@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3654
Surface water-quality modeling and advanced computer applications in environmental engineering
John Durant
Civil and Environmental Engineering
john.durant@tufts.edu
(617) 627-5489
Urban water quality, exchange of pollutants between sediment and water, river restoration, GIS
David Gute
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Family Medicine and Community Health
david.gute@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3452
Epidemiology, Public Health
David Kaplan
Biomedical Engineering
david.kaplan@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3251
Research at the interface between biology and materials science and engineering - aimed at understanding and controlling the biological synthesis and processing of polymers and polymer interfaces.

Shafiqul Islam
Civil and Environmental Engineering

shafiqul.islam@tufts.edu
(617) 627-4290
Hydroclimatology/meteorology, Remote Sensing, Scale Issues
Andrew Ramsburg
Civil and Environmental Engineering
andrew.ramsburg@tufts.edu
(617) 627-4286
Innovative Remediation Technologies, Fate and Transport in Porous Media
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

William Moomaw (School Coordinator)
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy/Tufts Institute of the Environment

william.moomaw@tufts.edu
(617) 627-2732

Quantitative indicators of environment and development; sustainable development; trade and environment; technology and policy implications for climate change; water and climate change; biodiversity; negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.

Leila Fawaz
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies 

leila.fawaz@tufts.edu
(617) 627-3941

Social and political history of the modern Middle East; late Ottoman Arab history; wars and civil wars; relations of city and state, culture and society from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean circa 1890-1920.

Adil Najam
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

adil.najam@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-2706

 
Medical School

Jeff Griffiths (School Coordinator)
Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts Medical School

jeffrey.griffiths@tufts.edu
(617)-627-6941

Water Borne Diseases, National Policy.  The epidemiology and biology of Cryptosporidium, an emerging protozoan pathogen that usually causes mild disease in normal hosts, but that can be lethal in the immunocompromised (e.g. people with AIDS) and/or in the malnourished. 

Elena Naumova
Family Medicine and Community Health,
Tufts Medical School

elena.naumova@tufts.edu
(617)-627-2462

Development of analytical tools for time series/longitudinal data and analysis applied to disease surveillance, exposure assessment and growth studies; research projects that include infectious disease, environmental epidemiology, molecular biology and immunogenetics, nutrition and growth.

Beth Rosenberg
Family Medicine and Community Health,
Tufts Medical School

Beth.Rosenberg@tufts.edu
(617) 636-6651

Occupational and environmental health; creating systems of production that do not harm workers or the environment; focusing now on silica in abrasive blasting operations and how to encourage the use of safer substitutes; public health improvements as social change.

Patricia Hibberd
New England Medical Center

Patricia.Hibberd@tufts.edu 
(617) 636-2215

Infectious Diseases
Veterinary School

Mark Pokras (School Coordinator)
School of Veterinary Medicine

mark.pokras@tufts.edu
(508) 839-7918

Functional and surgical anatomy of birds and reptiles (including imaging techniques); Environmental pathology (including toxicology) of wildlife species; Captive management of aquatic reptiles, birds and mammals; Allometric scaling as a tool for understanding comparative clinical medicine; and Development of minimally invasive field techniques for wildlife health studies.

Acacia Warren
School of Veterinary Medicine

acacia.warren@tufts.edu
(508) 839-7970

 

Saul Tzipori
School of Veterinary Medicine

saul.tzipori@tufts.edu
(508) 839-7955

Enteric infections and the host response; this includes viral, bacterial and protozoan pathogens of veterinary and medical importance causing acute or chronic diarrhea in the immunocompetent or the immunodeficient host.

Giovanni Widmer
School of Veterinary Medicine

giovanni.widmer@tufts.edu
(508) 839-7944 x87944

Molecular biology of protozoan parasites, molecular epidemiology of C. parvum; genetics of C. parvum; molecular detection and viability methods for waterborne Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts.
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Beatrice Rogers (School Coordinator)
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Fletcher, Family Medicine and Community Health

beatrice.rogers@tufts.edu
(617) 627-2292

Implementing interdisciplinary graduate curricula, Economics, Food Policy 

Patrick Webb
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Fletcher 

patrick.webb@tufts.edu
(617) 627-2507

Household Water Security, Flooding and other natural disasters, Water policy in agrarian societies, Agricultural policy in relation to irrigation, 'virtual water' and high reliance on rainfed crops

Kathleen Merrigan
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Fletcher 

kathleen.merrigan@tufts.edu
(617) 636-3791

Sustainable development, negotiation theory, policy implementation, interest group politics.

Peter Walker
Feinstein International Famine Center

peter.walker@tufts.edu 
(617) 627-3423

Climate change and disasters, humanitarian accountability, organisational change.