People
People
Meet the faculty and staff working on climate change at Emory.
To search by interest area, type a keyword in the box below. Examples: water, air pollution, health, atmosphere, resilience, agriculture, adaptation, mitigation, energy, policy, modeling, environmental ethics, environmental humanities, climate justice, adaptation
David Nugent
Professor; Department of Anthropology
Political and economic anthropology; race, ethnicity and nationalism; Latin America; agrarian society; and the anthropology of the state
Deanna Womack
Assistant Professor of Religious and Multifaith Relations
Interreligious studies
Dennis Creech
Adjunct Instructor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health; Fund Advisor for Sustainability at the Kendeda Fund
Built environment, climate and health
Eri Saikawa
Associate Professor, Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Environmental Sciences, Director of Emory Climate Talks; Department of Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric chemistry, environmental health, biogeochemistry, climate science, and environmental policy/politics
George S. Georgiev
Associate Professor of Law
Climate risk and adaptation, sustainability, and corporate governance
Hiram Maxim
Professor; Department of German Studies; Interim Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Environmental activism, food sustainability, bike commuting
Howard Chang
Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; jointly appointed in Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health
Exposure assessment for air quality and extreme weather events; health effect estimation and impact assessment
Jeremy Hess
Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Health; University of Washington
Clinical research on heat, health system preparedness, and extreme weather events; public health research health effects of climate change in disaster adaptation, global health impacts, and public health response
Jesse Bell
Adjunct Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health; Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and the Environment at University of Nebraska Medical Center
Air pollution, climate and health
Jessica Fairley
Assistant Professor, Global Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine
Planetary health, climate change, and leprosy
Jonathan R. Nash
Professor of Law
Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Courts and Judges, Environmental Law, Federal Courts, Law and Economics, Legislation and Regulation, Property Law
Justin Burton
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; Department of Physics
Experimental condensed matter physics, soft matter physics, non-equilibrium physics, fluid mechanics, jamming and granular physics, geophysics