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Geoffrey Henderson
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About
Geoffrey Henderson is an assistant professor in the Environmental Policy and Planning specialization. He joined SEAS from Colby College, where he was a visiting assistant professor of environmental studies. His research interests include how to make democracy work better in the context of large-scale environmental problems, primarily climate change.
His work considers how civic organizations and social movements stimulate political participation and form coalitions, with a focus on the climate justice movement. He has studied efforts to engage people in small-dollar campaign finance and environmental activism, how environmental attitudes affect behavior, and how members of Congress learn their constituents’ opinions. His current research examines state- and federal-level coalitions of environmental and labor groups advocating policies to address climate change.
After receiving his PhD in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Prior to academia, he worked as a climate policy researcher at the World Resources Institute. He received his BA in political science from Haverford College.