Faculty & Staff

  • Professor of Geosciences

    B.S., M.A., Binghamton University; Ph.D., Brown University

    Research interests: GeoHealth, biogeochemistry, environmental geochemistry, research and collaborative project-based learning to support inclusive excellence in STEM education

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  • Lecturer in Environmental Studies & Geosciences

    B.A., Williams College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

    Research Interests: Earth Surface Processes, Paleoclimate, Ice Sheet History, Sedimentary Provenance Studies

    More about Elizabeth Pierce Davis

  • Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies

    B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Harvard University

    Focuses on environmental politics, international environmental law, ocean and atmospheric issues, and protection of the global commons.

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  • Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

    B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)

    Ecologist focusing on invasive plant population dynamics and environmental influences.

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  • Research & Instruction Librarian

    I provide research and instructional support to Wellesley students and faculty in the social sciences.

    More about Daria Hafner

  • Program Coordinator

    B.Sc. McGill University, M.A. in Environmental Studies, Brown University

    Facilitates internship and job opportunities for students and coordinates curricular and extracurricular events and activities across campus and beyond.

    More about Jessica Hunter

  • Director, Wellesley College Botanic Gardens; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences; Director, The Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment

    B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California

    Ecologist with a dual Wellesley role: Director of the Botanic Gardens and faculty member in Biology and Environmental Studies.

    More about Kristina Niovi Jones

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy

    B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Researches and teaches the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of cultural heritage, art, and the environment.

    More about Erich Hatala Matthes

  • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

    A.B., Bowdoin College ; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara)

    Marine ecologist seeking to understand past, present, and future changes to marine ecosystems and the human communities that rely on them.

    More about Becca Selden

  • Frost Associate Professor in Environmental Science; Associate Professor of Chemistry

    B.S., Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research on inorganic environmental chemistry, especially gas tracers and climate change. Teaching  includes inorganic, introductory, and aquatic chemistry.

    More about Rachel H. R. Stanley

  • Professor of Environmental Studies

    B.S., Washington and Lee University; A.M., Brown University; Ph.D., Princeton University

    Researcher on the recent history of U.S. environmental politics and policy, including climate change, the clean energy transition, and public lands management.

    More about James Morton Turner