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Core Faculty
Mark G. Becker
Jennifer G. Phillips
Mara A. Ranville
Monique Segarra
Gautam Sethi
Eleanor J. Sterling
Victor M. Tafur
Affiliated Faculty
Daniel Berthold
Sanjaya DeSilva
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Naomi Roslyn Galtz
Caroline Ramaley
Felicia Keesing
Elizabeth Smith
Visiting Lecturers
Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater
Andrew Revkin
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Faculty Biographies
Daniel Berthold
Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Professor of philosophy, Bard College. Teaches environmental ethics and technological applications of the Human Genome Project, including a focus on the ecological consequences of genetically modified agricultural crops. Areas of specialization include 19th-century Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and environmental ethics. Author of two books on the German idealist philosopher Hegel, essays in the Dictionary of Existentialism, and numerous articles and reviews. Scholarship on environmental ethics and the philosophy of ecology includes articles on Marxist ecology, 19th-century ecological thought, Aldo Leopold, and bioregionalism. Environmentally related public lectures include talks on the animal rights movement, bioregional politics, ecofeminism, and social ecology. B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University.
Mark G. Becker
Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Director, Geospatial Technology Section, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Earth Institute, Columbia University. Responsible for development of geographic information systems (GIS) applications for education, disaster mitigation, and public health research; overseeing project budgets; and managing GIS and remote-sensing specialists. Adjunct professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Founder of NorthStar Mapping, a GIS and global positioning system consulting group that assists local government and educators. Member, Meadowlands Conservation Board of Trustees (2000- ). Codirector, Bergen SWAN, a community-based watershed association (1988- ).
Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater
Visiting Lecturer, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Yale University; LL.M., S.J.D., University of Michigan. Professor, Boston College Law School. Member of the bar of the District of Columbia and Tennessee, and teaches and writes in the fields of environmental law, property and land use law, and administrative process, with further interests in comparative international law and public interest litigation. He has taught on seven law faculties; has been a consultant on environmental and land use law issues in Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nepal, and Japan; and has worked on national endangered species legislation and litigation in the USA -- most notoriously six years spent litigating the case of the endangered snail darter fish vs. TVA’s Tellico Dam in federal district court, appeals court, and in the Supreme Court, and through extended administrative and congressional hearings. Also served as chair of the State of Alaska’s Oil Spill Commission legal research task force responding to the Exxon-Valdez disaster and as a legal consultant in many environmental law cases. Author of many law review articles and the widely-adopted environmental law course book Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (3d edition 2004 from Aspen Publishing). In 2000 won Boston College Law School’s Faculty Excellence Award by vote of the graduating senior class, and in 2005 was awarded the 2005 David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23d International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene Oregon.
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Andrew Revkin
New York Times reporter covering the regional and global environment. Winner of an Investigative Reporters & Editors award and the inaugural National Academies Communication Award. Author of The Burning Season, which won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; and Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast. Former senior editor of Discover, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and senior writer at Science Digest. Articles in the New Yorker, Audubon, and Conde Nast Traveler. Adjunct professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Television appearances include Today, Good Morning America, and Charlie Rose, among many other programs. Fellow of The Explorers Club and invited member of the New York Academy of Sciences. B.S., Brown University; M.S., Columbia University.
Jennifer G. Phillips
Assistant Professor, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.S., Hunter College; M.S., Ph.D. in Soil, Crop, and Atmosphere Science, Cornell University; postdoctoral research, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Former research associate at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Areas of research: farming systems, climate change and seasonal climate variability, use of climate information in agricultural management, decision making under climate uncertainty, sustainable food-production systems. Regions of interest: east and southern Africa and the northeastern United States. Articles in Agricultural Systems; International Journal of Climatology; Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, and others. College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University.
E-mail: phillips@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-7845
Sanjaya DeSilva
B.A., Macalester College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Postdoctoral research, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2000–01). Honors and awards include Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Ford Foundation research grants, and Yale University fellowships. Publications include Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion papers "Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms" and "Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, The Philippines." Specialization in economics of development, applied microeconomics, and international economics. (2000– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.A., University of Virginia; M.S., University of South Carolina; Ph. D., University of Georgia. Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Research focuses on microbial ecology of subsurface stream sediments, functional assessment of wetlands, and the Hudson River ecosystem. Member, New Jersey Sea Grant Science Advisory Committee and Proposal Review Panel, Estuarine Research Federation, Hudson River Museum, and Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of Environmental Protection Agency. Publications include articles in Ecological Applications, Estuaries, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, and Limnology and Oceanography.
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Mara A. Ranville
Interim Director and Assistant Professor
B.A., Macalester College (cum laude); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. Research interests include industrial emissions to the atmosphere, policy implications of cross-border transport of atmospheric pollution, chemical oceanography and marine contamination, and economic geology. Former researcher, Flegal Lab, UC-Santa Cruz; has also worked with U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Taught earth science, aquatic toxicology, and environmental toxicology at UC-Santa Cruz. Articles in Applied Geochemistry; Marine Chemistry; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Member, American Geophysical Union and North American Association of Environmental Educators.
E-mail: ranville@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-7321
Naomi Roslyn Galtz
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan (2000); J.D., Pace Law School, Environmental Law (expected 2008). Sociological research interests include: the social logics of consuming less; the commodification of simplicity in contemporary U.S. culture; and consumption, social class, and dachas (summer homes) in Russia from the late Imperial period to the present. Roz has authored or co-authored chapters in the Annual Review of Sociology and the edited collection, Living Through Soviet Russia, as well as book reviews and research reports. Currently, while completing her J.D., she contributes to sustainable urban planning efforts and writes on related issues.
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Caroline Ramaley
Academic Support Associate. Teaches graduate students to write clearly, persuasively, and reflectively for academic and lay readers. Taught basic and advanced composition, Shakespeare, and 18th- and 19th-century British literature at University of Virginia. Former assistant to the director of the UVA Science and Engineering Libraries. Currently also affiliated with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program. B.A., summa cum laude, Middlebury College; Ph.D., University of Virginia.
Felicia Keesing
Associate professor of biology, Bard College. Research interests are in community ecology and the consequences of interaction among species, such as in savanna communities suffering the loss of large herbivores, and in fragmented woodlands where interactions between mice and deer
influence human exposure to Lyme disease. Teaches within the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing and participates in several other academic programs. Awarded grants from the National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Awards and fellowships include Patricia Robert Harris Fellowship, Anna M. Jackson Award, United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000). Publications include contributions to Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology Letters, Ecology, BioScience, Oecologia, Conservation Biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, and Canadian Journal of Zoology, among others. B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Monique Segarra
Visiting professor, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. Areas of interest include politics of sustainable development, participatory environmental management, international environmental regimes, transboundary citizen networks, and policy analysis. Current research focuses on the role of international organizations in shaping domestic environmental policy in Latin America. Completing a yearlong project examining several cases of transnational policy making in Ecuador including a World Bank/Global Environment Facility project to promote a new system of participatory management in the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Program (SNAP); the struggle by local communities and their transnational allies to prevent mining in the midst of a cloud-forest preserve; and the mobilization of a national indigenous movement around “ethno-environmentalism.” In addition to research and teaching, she has worked with a range of international development and research institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council. B.A., Brandeis University; M.I.A., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University.
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Gautam Sethi
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.A., University of Delhi; M.A., Delhi School of Economics; M. Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, master’s thesis on the conflicts between utilitarianism and libertarianism; Fellow, University of Texas, Austin; Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley (Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award). Research interests include natural resources and environmental economics, applied microeconomics, game theory, philosophy of economics, and history of economic thought. Worked in India on energy-economy-environment linkages and associated policy issues. Doctoral work focused on fishery management under certainty. Designed and taught a Rethinking Economics course at the University of California, Berkeley. Author, working papers of climate change policy impacts at Redefining Progress, San Francisco, and a companion volume to Jeffrey Perloff’s Microeconomics; article in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Presented research talks at academic institutions (Binghamton University, University of California-Santa Barbara), research institutes (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, Tata Energy Research Institute, India), policy forums (OECD workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico), and numerous professional society meetings.
E-mail: sethi@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-7386
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Eleanor J. Sterling
Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Program director (1996-2002), director (2002- ), Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Spearheaded establishment of Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, with programs in Bolivia, Madagascar, Mexico, and the United States. Served as programming consultant and environmental education trainer with U.S. Peace Corps, Madagascar, and conservation education specialist, Ivoloina Zoological Park, Toamasina, Madagascar (1994-96). Board member, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Society for Conservation Biology, Lemur Conservation Foundation, others. Awards include Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship (1994-96), NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-94), John W. Mellon Fellowship (1991-92). Has taught conservation biology at Columbia University since 1997.
Elizabeth Smith
Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Visiting associate professor of theater, Bard College. Voice and speech consultant for film, television, regional theater, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions, including As You Like It, Road to Moscow, Henry IV, Engaged, Sight Unseen, and, at Glimmerglass Opera Company, Death in Venice, Patience, and Mines of Sulphur. Trains students in the art of public speaking and the development of an effective, cogent public speaking persona. Has taught at Yale School of Drama, Vassar College, Juilliard School, Fordham University, National Theater Institute, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin, Ireland), Moscow Art Theatre School, and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Recipient, John Houseman Award (1996).
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Victor M. Tafur
J.D., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia); LL.M. and S.J.D. in Environmental Law, Pace University. Adjunct professor of Energy, Natural Resources, and Climate Change Law at the Pace Law School, and former staff attorney for the Pace Law School’s Energy Project. Currently senior attorney, and formerly staff attorney, for Riverkeeper. Previously served as Deputy Director of the Program for Alternative Development for the Presidency of Colombia, and in private practice. Admitted to the bar of New York State and of Colombia. Contributing editor, to a recent book by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, through Cambridge University Press. Articles in the Pace Environmental Law Review and the Environmental Law Reporter.
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