Robert Darrow works primarily on environmental and energy policy, climate change, and energy transitions. His current research explores how industrial societies are reducing their reliance on fossil fuels and building sustainable alternatives. He engages with cutting-edge scholarship on ecological democracy and the political dynamics of technological change, but also aims to speak to wider audiences of policymakers, community organizations and concerned citizens. Both his research and teaching stress active engagement in public life.
Darrow has previously conducted research on Appalachian coal mining and state and local renewable energy policies. He has worked in the electric utility industry on nuclear power issues and as a journalist reporting on local politics. Darrow鈥檚 scholarship has appeared in Energy Research & Social Science and Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology. He was a fellow in the National Science Foundation鈥檚 IGERT Offshore Wind Energy Program at UMass Amherst.
At 欧美AV, he regularly teaches courses on Comparative Politics, American Politics, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Science Policy and Political Theory.
Areas of Expertise
Environmental politics, renewable energy, science and technology policy, political theory
Education
- Ph.D., UMass Amherst
- M.A., M.S., Virginia Tech
- B.A. Michigan State University