When Elsie Sunderland was 17, her hometown on the southern shore of Nova Scotia sought to create jobs for local fishermen—impacted by the collapse of local fisheries—by building a toxic waste incinerator. To alert the community to the potential health impacts of the plan, Sunderland petitioned local politicians, wrote Op-Eds, and launched a citizen’s group. “And that was it,” she was hooked on the environment. “I knew that’s what I was going to do with my life.”
The Center for the Environment brings together one of the largest and most varied faculty communities on campus. HUCE Faculty Associates participate in events, workshops, grant programs, and meet twice-monthly to discuss their research and environmental issues more broadly.
The directory below contains profiles of the more than 250 faculty affiliated with the Center. The directory is searchable by research area, School, and keyword.
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School; Formerly Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, [Leave of Absence]
Harvard Business School
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George Grant Maccurdy and Janet G.B. Maccurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology [Emeritus]
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School
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Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture; Co-Chair of the Sensory Media Platform
Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Norman B. and Muriel Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism; Co-Director - LCAU, MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
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Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology; Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard School of Public Health
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Instructor in Pediatrics (HMS); Interim Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE); Hospitalist, Division of General Pediatrics (Boston Children’s Hospital)
Harvard Medical School
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President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Lecturer, Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
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Reischauer Professor of Social Anthropology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
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Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography
Harvard School of Public Health
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Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics and Professor of Computational Science
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology; Director, Center for Children and Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
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Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics; Harvard College Professor
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Aramont Professor of the History of Science
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
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Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature [Emeritus]
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Professor of the Practice of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies
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