Education
Ph.D. Sociology
University of Notre Dame
About
Justin Farrell is a professor and author at Yale University. His research tackles questions of environment, politics, human culture, and policy using a mixture of methods, blending ethnographic fieldwork with large-scale computational techniques from network science and machine learning.
His research has been published by Princeton University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change, the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, among others, and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER). His books and articles have won national awards from the American Sociological Association, American Library Association, used on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and covered by major media outlets such as The Economist, Washington Post, HBO, WIRED, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times.
National Science Foundation CAREER award, $400,000, “The Effect of Energy Transition on Rural America: Innovative Methods to Study Cultural, Technological, and Economic Change”, 2018-2023
See website for publications, policy/media engagement, and lab information for prospective students:
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Billionaire Wilderness The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West  "Justin Farrell explores a bold new understanding of nature and people in America's wealthiest county. This startling, provocative, and respectful analysis of conservation and the Teton community will ignite important future scholarship. A must-read."—Thomas E. Lovejoy "This important and innovative book offers a rarely seen glimpse into the lives of the ultra-wealthy, exploring the ways in which they think about status, social inequality, privilege, and the environment in a context where all of these factors collide on a regular basis."—David Naguib Pellow |
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The Battle for Yellowstone Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict "The most original political book of early 2015" |
Courses
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764 Nature, Rationality, and Moral Politics |
Farrell Th - 9:00-11:50 |
Farrell TBA - TBA |
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769 Seminar on Public Lands and Policy in the American West |
Farrell Th - 2:30-4:20 |
Farrell TBA - TBA |
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783 |
Farrell TBA - TBA |
