Faculty

Timothy S. Griffin, Ph.D.
Program Director, Associate Professor
Agriculture, Food and the Environment

Ph.D. in Crop and Soil Science, Michigan State University

Phone: (617) 636-3613

Email: timothy.griffin@tufts.edu

Research Interests: Sustainable and organic production systems, environmental nutrient flows, climate change

Tim Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Agriculture, Food and the Environment program. Before coming to the Friedman School in 2008, he was Research Agronomist with USDA-Agriculture Research Service in Orono, ME, from 2000 to 2008. He conducted research on many aspects of agricultural production in the Northeast U.S., including nutrient cycling and grain production on organic dairy farms, crop management and long-term sustainability of high-value production systems. Dr. Griffin also initiated research in greenhouse has emissions, soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, and soil conservation in these systems. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Griffin was Extension Sustainable Agriculture Specialist with the University of Maine, the first such position in the U.S. He developed and delivered a wide-ranging educational and applied-research program on crop production, nutrient availability, and crop-livestock integration, and worked extensively with the USDA-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program in the Northeast. Dr. Griffin has published extensively in many peer-reviewed journals, and brings perspective from more than 25 years of field research and agricultural education to the Friedman School.

Affiliated Faculty

• Steven A. Block, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  Development economics, particularly food and agricultural policy, growth, and political economy. Geographic concentration: Sub Saharan Africa.
• Jeanne P. Goldberg, Ph.D., R.D.
  Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Communication strategies in health promotion, theory-based program interventions, mass media and effective nutrition communication
• David Gute, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  Associate Professor, Public Health and Family Medicine, School of Medicine
  Environmental and occupational epidemiology
• Paul Kirshen, Ph.D.
  Research Professor, Tufts University School of Engineering
  Co-director of Water: Systems, Science and Society Program (WSSS)
  Water resources planning and management, integrated assessment, climate change, water policy analysis, and hydrology
• Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D.
  Professor, Urban and Environmental Planning
  Linkages between science/technology, ethics/values, and public policy
• William R. Moomaw, Ph.D.
  Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  Quantitative indicators of environment and development, sustainable development, trade and environment, technology and policy implications for climate change, water and climate change, biodiversity, negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.
• Beatrice Lorge Rogers, Ph.D.
  Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Food policy and economics
• Paul Waldau, Ph.D., J.D.
  Director of Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
  Religion and animals, law and animals
• Patrick Webb, Ph.D.
  Dean for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Household food security, agricultural development, international organization
• Parke E. Wilde, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Domestic food policy, microeconomic analysis of food choices
• Hugh Joseph, Ph.D.
  Research Associate, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Project Developer for New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
• Jennifer Hashley, M.S.
  Lab Instructor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Director, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
  Email:jennifer.hashley@tufts.edu
  
  
• Willie Lockeretz, Ph.D.
  Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University
  Email: willie.lockeretz@tufts.edu

  Research Interests: Alternative agricultural systems, especially organic farming

  William Lockeretz has been at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy since 1981, where he co-founded the Agriculture, Food and Environment program in 1993. His main interest has been environmentally advantageous agricultural alternatives. His research has been published in journals as varied as American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Land Economics, Agronomy Journal, Agriculture and Human Values, and Rural Sociology. In addition, he is coauthor of Agricultural Research Alternatives (1993), editor of Visions of American Agriculture (1997), and coeditor of Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture (2004). From 1986 to 1997 he edited the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, which he helped to found. He has organized and edited the proceedings of several national and international conferences, including Agriculture and Energy (1976), Environmentally Sound Agriculture (1982), Sustaining Agriculture Near Cities (1986), Environmental Enhancement through Agriculture (1995), Agricultural Production and Nutrition (1997), and Ecolabels and the Greening of the Food Market (2002). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Section O, Agriculture) and a founding board member of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research. He also was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Alternative Farming Methods and the National Organic Standards Board. On four occasions he taught at the European Summer Course on Organic Farming.

  Read about how his book, Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Agriculture, came about in this article from the Tufts Journal.