ADVISORY BOARD FACULTY PROFILES

Members of the CLF Faculty Advisory Board and other JHU faculty members inspire us with their ideas, their research, and their dedication to a livable future. The following profiles are the first of an ongoing project to highlight the work and ideas of these faculty members from different fields, department and parts of the University.To see the complete list of advisory board members, go to About CLF.

Grace S. Brush, Ph.D.
Professor, Geography and Environmental Engineering, JHU

Among her many honors, Dr. Brush was also the recipient of the 1998 CLF Award for Leadership in Environment Stewardship in recognition of her paleoecologic documentation of the impact of human settlement on the Chesapeake Bay and the guidance her work provides for sustainable land use policies. Read more....

Sidney W. Mintz, Ph.D.
William L. Straus Jr. Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, JHU 

When asked what anthropology has to offer the mission of the Center, Dr. Sidney Mintz replied this way: “Anthropology is useful to Center programs because of its attention to human cultural variability. Attitudes toward living: nature, resource use, food and drink, and all else, vary from one society to another. So it’s not enough to talk about ‘human nature,’ or what’s ‘natural’ to people, or what’s instinctive or biologically forecast; we need to study their cultures. Read more...

Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH
Professor Emeritus, Community Health and Health Systems
Department of International Health, JHSPH
UNICEF representative in China from 1984 to 1987

"The only solution to the dilemma of balancing development for people living now, population growth and preserving the environment for future generations is to increase community awareness that will preserve local environmental heritages for future generations. A bottom-up empowerment process is needed for sustainable action." (Taylor, Carl, "Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures", April 2002, JHU Press) Read more...