Simone Pulver
Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor (Research) of International Studies and Environmental Studies:
Watson Institute for International Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 9735
Simone_Pulver@brown.edu
I study international environmental politics; environment and development; the sociology of global governance institutions; social movements; firm environmental decision-making and performance; climate change and energy policy in the United States, European Union, Brazil, India, and Mexico.
Biography
My research focuses on global environmental governance, firm-environmental decision-making, and environmental social movements. In particular, I have studied the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy networks in the UN climate change negotiations. I joined the faculty of the Watson Institute in 2003. I hold a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor (Research) of international studies and of environmental studies. I received my doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and also hold an M.A. in energy and resources from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in physics from Princeton University.
Interests
My current research investigates the emergence of carbon markets in India and Brazil with a specific focus on the participation of Indian and Brazilian firms in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. I am also working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Power in the Public Sphere: Conflict and Cooperation between Oil Companies and Environmental Groups in the UN Climate Change Negotiations, 1991–2003,which examines the roles played by transnational oil corporations and transnational environmental advocacy networks in the UN climate negotiations.
Degrees
PhD in Sociology, MA in Energy and Resources
Awards
2007-09 Joukowsky Family Assistant Professorship
2002-03 University of California, Dean's Normative Time Fellowship
2002-03 Switzer Foundation, Environmental Leadership Fellowship
2001-02 Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship
2001-02 UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, Dissertation Fellowship
2000-02 SSRC/Sloan Foundation, Fellow for Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution
1997-01 U.S. Department of Education, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
1996-97 University of California, University Regents Fellowship
1993-95 Winslow Foundation, Award for Science Education in Namibia
1991 Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi
Affiliations
American Sociological Association
International Studies Association
Teaching
My research on global governance and firm-civil society relations is paralleled and enriched by teaching on these topics.
ENVS 0510: International Environmental Politics. Based on the course content, the course is cross-listed in Environmental Studies and Sociology. It also serves as the capstone course for the environmental option within the undergraduate International Relations concentration.
INTL 1800G: The Environment-Development Connection
Funded Research
National Science Foundation, "Creating Carbon Markets in Brazil and India – A comparative study of firm environmental investment decisions under the Clean Development Mechanism," Principal Investigator, January 2009 – August 2011.
U.S. Department of State, J. William Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship, India Program, "Do Green Markets Produce Green Politics? The drivers and implications of environmental entrepreneurship in Indian sugar firms," January – July 2009.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Publication support for Environmental Research Letters special issue "Where Next with Global Environmental Scenarios?" December 2008
Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies, "Global Regimes and Inequality," Co-Principal Investigator, Principal Investigator Patrick Heller, January 2008 – January 2010
Brown University, Center for Environmental Studies, Humanities Research Fund, Principal Investigator, January – December 2008
Luce Foundation, "Land-Use Change: Designing and Implementing New Global Environmental Curricula," Senior Personnel, June 2006 – July 2008
Brown University, Salomon Faculty Research Award, "Marketizing Environmental Regulation," Principal Investigator, January 2005 – December 2006, Extended to June 2007
National Intelligence Council, "Global Environmental Futures: Interrogating the Practice and Politics of Scenarios," Principal Investigator, support for workshop in March 2007
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, "Global Environmental Futures: Interrogating the Practice and Politics of Scenarios," Principal Investigator, support for workshop in March 2007
Brown University, Romer Undergraduate Research and Teaching Assistantship (UTRA) with Zarah Rahman, 2005
National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2002-03
UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship Office, Humanities Research Grant, 2001
Social Science Research Council/Sloan Foundation, Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution Research Grant, 2000
MacArthur Program on Multilateral Governance, 1997-98
