Experts on public policy
Laureen Elgert
- Professor & Department Head The Global School
Professor Elgert is particularly interested in the environment-development nexus, examining how politics shapes global environmental policy that can have profound impacts on local livelihoods. She has worked in a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Site in the
Renata Konrad
- Professor The Business School
Professor Konrad recently returned from a Fulbright scholarship in Lviv, Ukraine, where she exchanged offices and homes with a professor at a Ukrainian university. She studies the application of industrial engineering and mathematical knowledge. Her
Robert Krueger
- Professor & Department Head of Social Science and Policy Studies Social Science & Policy Studies
Professor Krueger is a human geographer whose scholarship and teaching focus on creating sustainable, socially just, improvements to development projects in the global north and south. He has worked in countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa,
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Kent J. Rissmiller
- Associate Professor The Global School
Professor Rissmiller has served in a number of leadership positions associated with WPI's global studies. He also teaches government, law, and public policy. His own research is in energy policy. His studies have addressed the restructuring of the
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William San Martín
- Assistant Professor The Global School
Professor San Martin is a historian of science, environmental change, and public policy. His work examines the history of the science-policy interface to inform contemporary debates on environmental governance. I specialize in international development,
Elisabeth Anne Stoddard
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Professor Stoddard is a human-environment geographer who is interested in the intersection of nature, society, and social justice. She looks at the ways in which farmed animal production can create environmental hazards and injustice for local
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Yunus Dogan Telliel
- Assistant Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Telliel teaches a range of courses on ethics, rhetoric, religion and culture, and science and technology studies. His current research examines the ethical implications of technologist's work as designers and maintainers of socio-technical