Rate My Professor Janelle Knox-Haynes

Knox-Hayes joined MIT in 2015, following her tenure as Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2015 and as Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment from 2009 to 2013. Her research examines the political economy of environmental management, including the governance of social and environmental systems under globalization's shifting spatial and temporal scales, the interface of financial markets and environmental systems, and decision-making amid socio-economic uncertainty. She investigates how social and cultural values shape sustainable development, with fieldwork in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Iceland on Arctic sustainability. Among her awards are the SSRC Abe Fellowship for environmental finance in the Asia-Pacific, Fulbright Fellowship for sustainable decision-making in Iceland, Georgia Tech Class of 1969 Teaching Scholar in 2010, and Truman National Security Fellowship in 2009. She serves as editor of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and directs the Resilient Communities Lab. Key publications include 'The time and space of materiality in organizations and the natural environment' (Organization & Environment, 2013), 'Understanding attitudes toward energy security: results of a cross-national survey' (Global Environmental Change, 2013), 'The politics of carbon disclosure as climate governance' (Strategic Organization, 2011), and 'The developing carbon financial service industry: expertise, adaptation and complementarity in London and New York' (Journal of Economic Geography, 2009).