People

Peter Alagona

alagona@es.ucsb.edu

Beagle Environmental Fellow: 2006-2008

PhD History, UCLA, 2006

Current Position: Associate Professor of History & Environmental Studies and Director of the lnterdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society, UC-Santa Barbara

Peter Alagona's research focuses on the cultural and political histories of ecology and the related life, environmental, and conservation sciences. Peter received his PhD in history, with emphases in environmental history and the history of science, from...

Anna Lea Albright

annaleaalbright@fas.harvard.edu

Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025

PhD, Climate Physics, Sorbonne University

Anna Lea Albright uses models, theory, and observations to improve understanding of how clouds and rainfall change as a result of a warming planet. Anna Lea received her AB/AM from Harvard College in 2017 in Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary...

Meir Alkon

meiralkon@fas.harvard.edu

Environmental Fellow: 2020-2022

PhD, Politics, Princeton University

Meir Alkon researches political economy with a focus on the politics of large-scale energy and economic transitions. Meir received his PhD jointly from Princeton's Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...

Karl Aspelund

karlaspelund@fas.harvard.edu

Environmental Fellow: 2025-2027

PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karl M. Aspelund uses models grounded in economic theory, paired with spatial and administrative data, to design environmental policies that advance equity, efficiency, and sustainability.​ ​ Karl received his AB from Harvard College in 2017 in...

Daniel Barber

Daniel.Barber@uts.edu.au

Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2010-2012

PhD Architecture, Columbia University

Current Position: Head of School, Architecture, University of Technology Sydney

Daniel A. Barber is an architectural historian analyzing affinities between the history of architecture and the emergence of environmentalism in the 20th century. Daniel received a BA in comparative history of ideas from the University of Washington, and...

Kelvin Bates

kelvin_bates@fas.harvard.edu

Kernan Brothers Environmental Fellow: 2017-2020

PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Current Position: Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University

Kelvin Bates is an atmospheric chemist who investigates the interactions between biogenic and anthropogenic emissions and their contributions to smog formation. Kelvin earned his BS in chemistry and economics from Davidson College in 2012 and his PhD in...

Alyssa Battistoni

abattistoni@barnard.edu

Environmental Fellow: 2019-2021

PhD, Political Science, Yale University

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College

Alyssa Battistoni is a political theorist working at the intersection between environmental politics, political economy, and feminist thought. Alyssa earned a BA in Political Science from Stanford University, a MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental...

Etienne Benson

ebenson@sas.upenn.edu

Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010

PhD History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society, MIT, 2008

Current Position: Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair, Science, Technology & Society, University of Pennsylvania

Etienne Benson is a historian of the environmental sciences with a particular interest in the field practices of late twentieth-century conservation biology. Etienne received an AB in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard College in 1999 and an MA in...

Hélène Benveniste

helenebenveniste@fas.harvard.edu

French Environmental Fellow: 2021-2023

PhD, Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Princeton University

Hélène Benveniste uses interdisciplinary approaches to answer research questions directly relevant to climate change policy. Hélène received her PhD in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and...

Marie-Abèle Bind

ma.bind@mail.harvard.edu

Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2014-2016

ScD Environmental Health and Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health

Current Position: Associate, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow, Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University

Marie-Abèle Bind is an environmental biostatistician interested in health effects from environmental exposures. Marie-Abèle earned an MSc in engineering (specialization in energy and environment) in 2007 at one of France's Grandes Ecoles. She then...

Nathan Black

nwblack@gmail.com

French Environmental Fellow: 2012-2014

PhD Political Science, MIT

Current Position: Vice President of Solutions, Chronicle Graphics

Nathan Black is a political scientist interested in the future relationship between climate change and violent civil conflict. Nathan earned a BA in history from Rice University in 2006, and received a PhD in political science from MIT in June 2012. His...

Gil Bohrer

bohrer.17@osu.edu

French Environmental Fellow: 2007-2009

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 2007

Current Position: Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University

Gil Bohrer is an atmospheric physicist who focuses on atmosphere-biosphere-hydrosphere interactions. Gil received his PhD in civil and environmental engineering in June 2007 from Duke University. Before coming to Duke, he earned an MS in ecology and a BS...