Sustainability Studies Directory

Administration Bios

Heidi Hutner

Director, Sustainability Studies / Faculty Director, Environmental Humanities

Environmental literature and film; ecofeminism; environmental justice; feminism; race studies; women’s literature; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Kim Knoll

Staff Assistant

MRAC / Sustainability Studies

631-632-8656 / 631-632-5365

Christina Ozelis

Academic Advising Assistant

MS, 2015, LIU Post W0511 Melville Library 631-632-9404

Faculty Bios

Katherine Aubrecht

Associate Professor / Faculty Director, Coastal Environmental Studies

chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry

Arlene Kons Cassidy

Lecturer / Faculty Director, Sustainability Studies

Anthony Dvarskas

Assistant Professor

Environmental economics, ecosystem services and resilience of coastal ecosystems, economics of restoration, natural capital accounting

Donovan Finn

Assistant Professor

community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking

Sung-Gheel (Gil) Jang

Lecturer / Faculty Director, Geospatial Center

Geospatial Sciences and geographic information systems

Elizabeth Terese Newman

Associate Professor

Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, and Environmental Archaeology with a specialty in Zooarchaeology.

Sharon Pochron

Lecturer / Faculty Director, Ecosystems and Human Impact

ecotoxicology and soil ecology

H. James Quigley Jr.

Lecturer / Faculty Director, Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning

Tara Rider

Lecturer

Maritime and Environmental History

Donna Selch

Visiting Assistant Professor

Remote Sensing and GIS; water quality modeling; hyperspectral remote sensing; object-based image analysis; environmental and vegetation; digital image analysis; coastal changes; unmanned aerial vehicles