Heller SID faculty bring a mix of area expertise, topical knowledge and field experience to their teaching and research. Most faculty members have held leadership positions in organizations that include United Nations agencies, private foundations such as the Ford Foundation, consulting groups such as World Education and John Snow Inc., and a range of non-governmental advocacy organizations such as Oxfam America.
Senior Lecturer and Director, MA Program in Sustainable International Development
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
Associate Professor
Expertise: Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; college access and other youth development programs; program evaluation; political advocacy, protest, and community organizing
Adjunct Professor of the Practice
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.
Professor
Expertise: Microeconomic theory; economics of the Middle East; managerial economics; development economics
Professor Emerita of the Practice
Expertise: Management and implementation of development policies, programs, and projects
Professor Emerita
Expertise: Planning and implementation, small island sustainable development, coastal and marine conservation, protected areas, community participation
Lecturer
Expertise: Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in international development projects; certified GIS Professional (GISP)
Adjunct Adviser
Expertise: analysis of agricultural, food, and nutrition policy on the well-being of nutritionally vulnerable populations
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Economic development; macroeconomic theory and policy; feminist economics
Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology
Expertise: Nationalism, sociology of religion, comparative and historical sociology
Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights and Social Change
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
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
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
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: effective management of development and fundraising programs
