Impacts on Vulnerable Communities

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

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

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

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

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

Edythe Weeks, PhD
Adjunct Faculty and Fulbright Specialist, Political Science
- Email: eweeks@wustl.edu
- Outer Space and Polar Law & Politics

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