UMass Boston

Stacy VanDeveer, Graduate Program Director/Professor, Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Governance

Stacy VanDeveer

Department:
Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Governance
Title:
Graduate Program Director/Professor

Biography

Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor of Global Governance and Human Security in the John C. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. During the 2023-24 academic year he was Zennstrom Visiting Professor of Climate Change Leadership in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Area of Expertise

Global resources and energy politics, global environmental and resource governance, comparative politics, European Union, environmental change, human security and transnational climate change and biodiversity governance

Degrees

PhD, University of Maryland, Government and Politics

MA, University of Maryland, Government and Politics

BA, University of Illinois, Political Science

Professional Publications & Contributions

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Additional Information

Professor VanDeveer's research interests include transnational climate change and biodiversity governance, EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental politics and institutions, comparative environmental politics, connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over 130 articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he has co-edited or coauthored 12 books.

He is Co-Investigator in the ClimBio Frontiers research project, with Professor Michele Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley, funding by the Independent Research Fund Denmark

He was previously awarded fellowships from Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC. He received research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Union, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), and the Research Council of Norway, among others. He co-edited the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press) from 2013-17, which is among the highest ranked academic journals by impact factor in both political science and environmental studies.