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Allison Macfarlane

Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Contact:
Telephone: 703-993-9144
Fax: 703-993-1066
Email: amacfarl@gmu.edu

Experience

Allison Macfarlane is currently an Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University and an associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs' Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University. She was formerly an MTA/ISP postdoctoral fellow.

She was most recently a Research Associate at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Previously, she was Associate Professor of International Affairs and Earth & Atmospheric Science at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga. She received her Ph.D. in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. She has held the position of professor of geology and women's studies at George Mason University where she taught a wide variety of geology and environmental courses. She has also held fellowships at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. From 1998–2000 she was a Social Science Research Council–MacArthur Foundation fellow in International Peace and Security. From 1999–2001 she served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on the spent fuel standard and excess weapons plutonium disposition. Her research focuses on international security and environmental policy issues associated with nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Her book on the unresolved technical issues for nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Uncertainty Underground, was published in April 2006.