Justin Farrell

Justin Farrell is a social scientist and Professor at Yale University, School of the Environment. 

Farrell examines how modern civilizations interact with the natural world and each other.  He focuses on the causes and consequences of climate change, social class, rurality, morality, and epistemology. His studies blend large-scale computational methods with local qualitative fieldwork. 

His books and articles have won national awards and regularly appear in major media. He frequently presents to policymakers, including the U.S. Senate, the White House, the Vatican, and the United Nations. His research has been published by Science, Princeton University Press, the American Sociological Review, PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Social Problems, among others, and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. 

Justin is a proud first-generation college graduate and Wyoming native.

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