Health, Wellbeing, and Communities

Catalina Freixas, MArch
Associate Professor, Architecture
- Email: Freixas@wustl.edu
- Resilience in natural, built, and social environments
- Social and environmental consequences of urban segregation

Bret Gustafon, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Email: gustafson@wustl.edu
- Corruption in the fossil fuel industry
- Community resistance to polluting corporations
- Corporate and academic greenwashing
- Fossil fuel industry interference in local and state policy making

Patty Heyda, MArch
Associate Professor, Urban Design and Architecture
- Email: heyda@wustl.edu
- American cities
- Redevelopment, Race and Inequality
- Cities and climate change
- Mapping
- Urban Design
- Architecture
- Planning and Public policy

Elizabeth Hubertz, JD
Director/Associate Prof of Practice, Clinical
- Email: ejhubertz@wustl.edu
Client-service organization working on:
- Pollution (air, water, land)
- Environmental justice issues (home heating costs, mold, vacancies)

Lora Iannotti, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health
- Email: liannotti@wustl.edu
- Nutrition
- Sustainable healthy diets
- Food security

Tristram R. Kidder
Chair and Professor of Anthropology
- Email: trkidder@wustl.edu
- Historical ecology
- Landscape and environmental archaeology
- Climate’s impact on human societies

Johnelle Lamarque, PhD
Lecturer, Anthropology
- Email: lamarque@wustl.edu
- Environmental and housing issues

Suzanne Loui, PhD
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
- Email: sloui@wustl.edu
- Environmental humanities
- Environmental modernism
- Public perception of energy technologies
- Science communication
- Environmental History

Edward McPherson, MFA
Associate Professor of English
- Email: emcpherson@wustl.edu
- Environmental justice
- Climate Change
- Radioactive/nuclear legacy
- Fracking/oil & gas production

Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, PhD
Associate Professor, Fashion Design
- Email: mrupper@wustl.edu
- Sustainable fashion

Linda Samuels, PhD
Associate Professor in Urban Design
- Email: lcsamuels@wustl.edu
- Urban Design
- Sustainable Urbanism
- Next Generation Infrastructure
- Alternative Metrics

Betsy Sinclair, PhD
Professor, Political Science
- Email: bsinclair@wustl.edu
- Changes in attitudes and opinions surrounding climate change

Jennifer R Smith, PhD
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: jensmith@wustl.edu
- Understanding the interaction between humans and their environment as recorded in the archeological record
- Effects of climatic and environmental changes on resources available to people through time
- Effects of changes in population and technology on human environmental impact

Joseph Steensma, EdD
Professor of Practice, Public Health
- Email: jsteensma@wustl.edu
- Sustainable food systems
- Leveraging enterprise to solve environmental problems
- Food/climate/ecology/enterprise nexus

Jian Wang, PhD
Professor, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Enginnering
- Email: jian@wustl.edu
- Aerosols
- Effects of aerosols on radiation, clouds, climate, and air quality

Leyao Wang, PhD
Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Email: leyao.wang@wustl.edu
- Impact of extreme climate events on human health
- Disaster exposure in early life and human microbiome
- Chronic diseases
- Human health
- Microbiomes

Brent Williams, PhD
Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished InCEES Career Development Associate Professor
- Email: brentw@wustl.edu
- Composition, Chemistry, and Physics of Earth’s Atmosphere
- Role of Biogenic and Anthropogenic Gases and Particles
- Impacts on Human Health