
SID Faculty


Joan Dassin '69
Professor of International Education and Development and Director, MA Program in Sustainable International Development
Expertise: International and comparative education policy; educational opportunity and social mobility; youth leadership development; social policy and democratic governance in developing countries; project design, management, implementation and evaluation; extensive field experience in Brazil, Latin America and East Africa

Rajesh Sampath
Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights and Social Change and Associate Director, MA Program in Sustainable International Development
Expertise: General topics in applied moral and political philosophy; philosophy of development; comparative religions; theories of justice; development ethics; philosophy of law, comparative constitutional law, human rights and theories of democracy

Jeffrey Ashe
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Micro-enterprise programs with a focus on reaching the poorest through savings groups, research, program design

Joseph Assan
Assistant Professor
Expertise: International political economy, sustainable development, international development, development studies, development management, sustainable livelihoods, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction, environmentally-induced vulnerabilities and human security, resilience to climatic variability, environmentally-induced migration and development policy analysis, environment, health and human well-being

Francisco Rolfsen Belda
Feldman Engaged Scholar and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communications (FAAC) at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Bauru Campus, Brazil
Expertise: Editorial management, science journalism and digital media and technologies for education and local development

Joshua Ellsworth, MA SID'07
Lecturer
Expertise: Project planning and implementation; theory of change; payment for environmental services (PES) and other environmental economic incentive programs; sustainable agriculture; dynamics of forest disturbance; forest and watershed management and restoration; invasive species prevention and control

M. Cristina Espinosa
Associate Professor
Expertise: Gender, culture and sustainable development/conservation; gender, livelihoods and social differentiation; globalization, gender and livelihoods; indigenous peoples and ethnicity in development; ethnic spirituality and health

Stephen Fournier
Senior Lecturer in the Heller School and Adjunct Professor in the International Business School
Expertise: Teaching (statistics, econometrics), data analysis and applied causal modeling and data maintenance. Special expertise in both Stata and SPSS

Ricardo Godoy
Professor
Expertise: Acculturation; inequality; social capital; econometrics; research design; Bolivia; indigenous peoples; native Amazonians; panel studies; randomized controlled trials
Dr. Godoy manages the Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study that conducts annual measures of socioeconomic, demographic, health, and psychological indicators.

Anita F. Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Anti-discrimination law and policy (gender and race)

Marion Howard, MA SID'04
Associate Professor of the Practice
Expertise: Planning and implementation, small island sustainable development, coastal and marine conservation, protected areas, community participation

Ravi Lakshmikanthan, MA SID'99
Lecturer
Expertise: Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in international development projects; certified GIS Professional (GISP)

Richard Lockwood
Instructor
Expertise: analysis of agricultural, food, and nutrition policy on the well-being of nutritionally vulnerable populations

Eric Olson
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Ecological consequences of invasive species, and the policy framework to protect and restore wild habitats; tropical forest food webs; climate change and adaptation; major ecological threats; water; ecology of health; environmental impact assessment; ecotourism

Pierrette Quintiliani
Adjunct Lecturer

Brian Roach
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: economic analysis of environmental policies, economic inequality, human development, corporate power, tax policies

Donald Shepard
Professor
Expertise: Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, health financing in the United States and globally, and their application to drug and alcohol abuse, cardiovascular disease, dengue and malaria

Laurence R. Simon
Professor and Director, Center for Global Development and Sustainability
Expertise: Philosophy of development, political/cultural geography, psychological and cultural barriers to poverty alleviation, agrarian reform, project planning and implementation, organizational management, post-harvest technology transfer, social exclusion and emancipatory development, qualitative evaluation

David Whalen, MBA'00
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: effective management of development and fundraising programs

Chandler Rosenberger
Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology
Expertise: Nationalism, sociology of religion, comparative and historical sociology

Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Political philosophy, philosophy of law, democratic theory, philosophy of art, liberty and equality, natural kinds and human kinds, internationalization of human rights, duty to rescue law, responsibility to protect, criminal attempt law, felony murder, international rules of war and micro-legal systems, civil engagement and civil resistance, philosophy of John Stuart Mill, the case against the secret ballot, representation in painting, photography and film