I am a political sociologist, currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University. My research examines how efforts to bring about environmental change become contested and socially and politically constrained. I approach this question primarily through the case of climate change, studying how state and non-state actors, including governmental institutions, organized economic interests, and media institutions, shape public understandings and policy responses. My research has been published in Social Problems, Science and Public Policy, Climatic Change, and Climate Policy, among others.