Climate Solutions Lab
People
Director
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Jeff Colgan
Director, Climate Solutions Lab, Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public AffairsJeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Professor in the Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. His research focuses on international order, especially as related to energy and the environment.
His book, "Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War," was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He has published work in International Organization, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, International Security and elsewhere. He also occasionally blogs at the Monkey Cage and Foreign Affairs. On Twitter, he is @JeffDColgan
Professor Colgan previously taught at the School of International Service of American University 2010-2014, and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 2012-13. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Berkeley, where he earned a Master's in Public Policy. Colgan has worked with the World Bank, McKinsey & Company and The Brattle Group.
Program and Research Assistants
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Caitlyn Carpenter
Student Research Assistant -
Vivian Chiu
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Alexia Embiricos
Student Research Assistant -
Jude Farley
Student Research Assistant -
Marsella Johnson
Student Research Assistant -
Eva Kappas
Student Research Assistant
Affiliates
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Nadje Al-Ali
Director, Middle East Studies, Robert Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies -
Margaret Babirye
Visiting Research Fellow, Doctoral Researcher in Politics, University of KasselResearch Interests Climate Politics: Conservation, Displacement and Indigenous Knowledge among the Batwa of Uganda -
Gian Pietro Bellocca
Affiliate, past visiting research fellow -
Mark Blyth
Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of Political Science and International and Public AffairsResearch Interests International and Comparative Political Economy, Banks and Finance, Europe, Monetary Policy -
Kathryn Chelminski
Affiliate, past CSL postdoctoral research fellow -
Alexander Gard-Murray
Affiliate, past CSL postdoctoral research fellow -
Deborah Gordon
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Former Director, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceResearch Interests Energy innovation, climate policy, oil and gas sector, science and technology -
Jennifer Hadden
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public AffairsResearch Interests Energy & Environment, Environmental Justice, Social Movements, Politics of climate change, social movements, NGOs -
Mizan Khan
Technical Lead of the LDC Universities’ Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC), Independent University, Bangladesh -
Patsy Lewis
Research Interests Regional integration studies, small states development, Caribbean political economy -
Katelyn Moretti
Global Health Fellow, MS Candidate, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University -
Christopher Rea
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public AffairsResearch Interests Political Economy, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Public Policy, Social Movements, Environmental Justice, Energy & Environment, Bureaucracy -
Jan Stockbruegger
Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Political Science -
Dustin Tingley
Professor of Government, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Collaborators
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Kim Cobb
Lawrence and Barbara Margolis Director of IBES, Professor of Environment and Society & Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences -
Nitin Padture
Otis Everett Randall University Professor of Engineering, Director, Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE) -
Stephen Porder
Associate Provost For Sustainability, Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society -
Timmons Roberts
Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Professor of Sociology
Staff
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Alexander Batten
Program Manager, Climate Solutions Lab and The Rhodes Center