The Sustainability Graduate Program’s core curriculum and electives are taught by faculty from multiple departments in the Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, as well as the School of Law and the School of Business. Our program’s inclusion of leading faculty members from a majority of the University’s schools and academic units makes it distinct among all other sustainability focused graduate degrees.
Lead Faculty
Elise Barrella, Ph.D., P.E.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, WFU Entrepreneurship Program
Design Educator, Researcher, Engineer, Planner at DfX Consulting LLC
James Cooper JR., P.E.
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Vice President of Apparel & Retail, WSP USA
Dr. Eric Stottlemyer
Director
Associate Dean for the Engaged Liberal Arts
Associate Teaching Professor
Supporting Faculty
Dr. Keith Bonin
Professor and Chair of Physics
Dr. Saylor Breckenridge
Associate Professor of Sociology
Justin Catanoso
Director of Journalism, Senior Lecturer
Professor of Practice
Dr. Robert Erhardt
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Dr. Steve Folmar
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associate Chair of the Department of Cultural/Applied Anthropology
Dr. Michael Gross
Associate Professor of Chemistry
John Knox
Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights and the environment
Dr. Judith Madera
Associate Professor of English
Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Stan Meiburg, Ph.D.
Executive Director, The Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability (formerly CEES)
Alan Palmiter
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
William T. Wilson, III Presidential Chair for Business Law
Dr. David Phillips
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Rotating Core Faculty
Sidney Shapiro
Frank U. Fletcher Chair of Administrative Law
Dr. Miles Silman
Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Presidential Chair in Conservation Biology at Wake Forest University
Founding Director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability (formerly CEES)
Steve Virgil
Clinical Professor of Law, School of Law
Executive Director of Experiential Education
Dr. Amy Wallis
Professor of Practice, Organizational Behavior
School of Business
Bern Beatty Faculty Fellow
Dr. Robert Whaples
Professor, Department of Economics
Hough Family Faculty Fellow
Graduate Program Staff
Dr. Eric Stottlemyer
Director
Associate Dean for the Engaged Liberal Arts
Associate Teaching Professor