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About
me I have been Assistant Professor in
political science at Clarkson since 2009. My focus is mingled between energy
and environmental policy, social justice issues and activism, and network
analysis. Current work includes research on energy poverty, Howard Zinn and
activism, scholar activism, fracking, renewable portfolio standards, green
data centers, social influence, and policy learning. I completed my
dissertation on energy policy, social networks, and interest groups at Boston
University in 2009. I received my masters in government (with honors) from
Harvard (extension) in 2003, was the recipient of a Kennedy School Rappaport
Fellowship in 2004, and worked for Harvard’s Electricity
Policy Group
from 2001-2010. I taught as an adjunct or lecturer at BU, Simmons College,
and Northeastern University. My consulting experience includes work for the
U.S. State Department (electricity restructuring, U.S. and Japan) and Massachusetts'
Environmental Affairs (chemical risk assessment). I was president of the
board of directors at Mass Energy (a
consumer’s energy non-profit) from 2004-2009. I’m affiliated with Clarkson’s
Institute for a Sustainable Environment and the Center for
Sustainable Energy Systems and I’m also faculty advisor for
Clarkson’s Synergy student energy club. I love climbing (rock and ice; I’m
also faculty advisor for Clarkson’s Outdoor Club, CUOC), and
playing electric bass (fretted/fretless; jazz & rock). In a previous life (i.e. 1984-2001, and
currently again), I worked as a professional musician, and I graduated
Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1988. I also worked for years as an art
installer, preparator, and lighting designer in museums.
* Network image above courtesy of Seth Crawford; Energy
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