Overview
Talbot M. Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. She studies how policy design and the changing environment interact with individuals’ attitudes to shape their behavior related to environmental policy. She is also more broadly interested in the ability of the public to hold their elected officials accountable. While most of her work is based in the United States, she also works with a team studying climate change literacy across Africa. Her book, Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster uses lab experiments to examine how the strategic features of climate change help and hinder successful disaster prevention. Her work has also been published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
Prior to joining Cornell, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut (2021-2024), and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University (2020-2021). She completed her PhD in political Science at Stony Brook University in 2020.
