The Institute for Environment and Society supports research to understand the interactions between natural, human and social systems. Our teaching programs prepare future leaders to envision and build a just and sustainable world. Our engagement programs take research from the lab to the statehouse, the hospital and the public sphere.
Undergraduate and graduate students can study conservation science and policy, water and food security, environmental health, climate science and meteorology, biogeography and evolution, and more. Research is conducted in laboratories, on supercomputers and at field sites around the world.
Cobb, KimDirector of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
King, DawnDeputy Dean of Environment and Society
Acton, Leslie DLecturer in Environment and Society
Baker, Rachel ElizabethAssistant Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society
Cobb, KimProfessor of Environment and Society and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Demuth, Bathsheba RDean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society
Fairbanks, LukeAssistant Professor of Environment and Society (Research)
Frickel, Scott AProfessor of Environment and Society and Sociology
Hastings, Meredith KGeorge Ide Chase Professor of Physical Sciences
Herbert, Timothy DProfessor of Environment and Society
Ibarra, Daniel EnriqueAssistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Environment and Society
Just, Allan CarpenterAssociate Professor of Environment and Society
Karp, Caroline ASenior Lecturer Emerita in Environment and Society
Kartzinel, Tyler RAssociate Professor
Kellner, James R.Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society
King, DawnSenior Lecturer in Environment and Society
Lander, Brian GAssociate Professor of History and Environment and Society
Lennon, MylesDean's Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Anthropology
Lummis, SarahResearch Associate in Environment and Society
Lynch, AmandaSloan And George Lindeman Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environment and Society and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Majumdar, AparajitaAssistant Professor of History and Environment and Society
Mustard, John FProfessor of Environment and Society
Porder, StephenProfessor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society
Roberts, J TimmonsIttleson Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology
Rudman, AlexieResearch Associate in Environment and Society
Sax, Dov FProfessor of Environment and Society
Schneider, MindiLecturer in Environment and Society
Smith, Laurence C.John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies
Teichert, KurtSenior Lecturer in Environment and Society
Tracy, Mark AtwoodAssistant Professor of the Practice of Environment and Society
VanWey, Leah KProfessor of Environment and Society and Sociology
Ward, Harold RProfessor Emeritus of Environment and Society
Wetts, RachelAcacia Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology