Tabitha M. Benney

Biography

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated faculty in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and the Center on Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Utah.  In addition, serve as the Editor of the Hinckley Journal of Politics.  Prior to joining the department, I was a researcher at the Earth Research Institute and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  In addition, from 2002-2007, she worked in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the US National Academy of Sciences.  

My work has been published in The Review of International Political Economy, Energy Policy, The World Financial Review and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.  My new book entitled, Making Environmental Markets Work:  The Varieties of Capitalism in Emerging Economies was published in December 2014 by Routledge Press.  

Education

PhD, Political Science, University of California
MA, International Affairs, Georgetown University

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

I currently teach in the fields of International Relations, International and Comparative Political Economy, Energy and Environmental Politics, Global Governance, and Comparative Research Methods.  

Books