- Phone:
- (812) 855-6990
- Email:
- dkonisky@indiana.edu
- Website:
- http://blogs.iu.edu/konisky/
- Room Number:
- 345
- Areas of Interest:
- Environmental politics and policy ,
- Regulation and compliance ,
- Public opinion on energy and climate change ,
- State politics and policy
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
- M.E.M and M.A., Yale University, 1998
- A.B, Washington University in St. Louis, 1995
Biography
David Konisky’s research focuses on U.S. environmental and energy policy, with particular emphasis on regulation, federalism and state politics, public opinion, and environmental justice.
His research has been published in various journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Politics, Nature Energy, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
He has authored or edited five books on environmental politics and policy, including Fifty Years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment and Opportunities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, with Jim Barnes and John D. Graham), Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2015), and Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2014, with Steve Ansolabehere). He has been the co-editor of the journal Environmental Politics since the beginning of 2021.
Konisky’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Konisky earned his Ph.D. in political science from MIT. He also holds two master’s degrees from Yale University: one in environmental management and one in international relations. At the undergraduate level, he studied history and environmental studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Prior to joining O'Neill in 2015, Konisky was on the faculty at Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, and served as a research associate at Resources for the Future.
Highlights
- Appointed as the Lynton K. Caldwell Professorship in International Environmental Studies, 2022
- Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2020
- Herbert Kaufman Award for best paper in public administration presented at the 2019 American Political Science Association conference, 2020
- O’Neill School Leader for Greater Good Award Student Choice Award, 2019
- Best Journal Article Award from the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, 2018
- Don K. Price Book Award, American Political Science Association, 2015
- Emerging Young Scholar Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2015
- Best Conference Paper Award from the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, 2014
- Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award for paper presented at the 2012 Southern Political Science Association conference
In the News
- “Low-income households are struggling to pay energy bills during pandemic,” Axios, August 4, 2020
- “Energy is a basic need, and many Americans are struggling to afford it in the COVID-19,” The Conversation, July 30, 2020 (with S. Carley)
- “EPA Weakens Controls on Mercury,” New York Times, April 16, 2020
- “David Konisky: Cut Global warming with earth-friendly commitment,”Indianapolis Business Journal, April 12, 2019
- “How the Weather Gets Weaponized in Climate Change Messaging,”New York Times, March 1, 2019
- “What Would the Green New Deal Mean for Business?”Harvard Business Review, February 28, 2019 (with S. Carley)
- “Trump Administration Reveals Greenhouse Gas Rule for Power Plants to Replace Obama-era plan,”CNBC, August 21 2018
- “Air pollution from industrial shutdowns and startups worse than thought,"The Conversation, February 14, 2018 (with A. Hollingsworth and N. Zirogiannis)
Selected Works
- "What we can Learn from the Green New Deal About the Importance of Equity in National Climate Policy," (with S. Carley), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (June 2, 2021)
- “The Justice and Equity Implications of the Clean Energy Transition,” Nature Energy vol. 5 (2020): 569-577 (with Sanya Carley).
- “Energy Policy and Public Opinion: Patterns, Trends, and Future Directions,” Progress in Energy 2(3) (2020): 032003 (with Parrish Bergquist and John Kotcher).
- “Energy Infrastructure, NIMBYism, and Public Opinion: A Systematic Literature Review of Three Decades of Empirical Survey Literature,” Environmental Research Letters, 15(9) (2020) (with Sanya Carley, Zoya Atiq, and Nick Land).
- “Racial, Ethnic, and Income Disparities in Air Pollution: A Study of Excess Emissions in Texas,” PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220696 (August 2, 2019) (with Z. Li and N. Zirogiannis).
- “A Framework for Evaluating Geographic Disparities in Energy Transition Vulnerability,” (with S. Carley, T. Evans, and M. Graff) Nature Energy (2018)
- “Understanding Excess Emissions from Industrial Facilities: Evidence from Texas,” (with N. Zirogiannis and A. Hollingsworth), Environmental Science and Technology (2018)
- “Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country,”(with T. Evans and S. Carley), Energy Research and Social Science (2018)
- “Regulatory Enforcement, Riskscapes, and Environmental Justice,” (with C. Reenock), Policy Studies Journal (2017)
- “The Greening of Christianity? A Study of Environmental Attitudes Over Time,” Environmental Politics (December 2017)
- “Extreme weather exposure and support for climate change adaptation,″ (with A. Ray, L. Hughes, C. Kaylor), Global Environmental Change (2017)
- “Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Location of Air Polluters,”(with N. Woods and J. Monogan III), American Journal of Political Science(2016)
- “Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Concern,” (with L. Hughes and C.H. Kaylor), Climatic Change (2016)
- “When Governments Regulate Governments,” (with M. Teodoro), American Journal of Political Science (2016)