Jack N. Barkenbus
Senior Research Associate
401 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
jack.barkenbus@vanderbilt.edu
(615) 343-9797
Short Bio
Ph.D., International Studies, University of Denver
B.A., Political Science, Kalamazoo College
Dr. Barkenbus, a political scientist and researcher, joined VCEMS in 2006. He previously was Executive Director of the Energy, Environment and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for 15 years. His research has focused on the interface of technology and institutions, and he is currently engaged in climate change and energy policy research.
Before joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Barkenbus served 10 years as senior scientist and deputy director for the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Prior to moving to East Tennessee, Dr. Barkenbus was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey for three years in the late 1960s.
Dr. Barkenbus has traveled widely over the past decade. He was a Fulbright scholar to Greece and Turkey in 2005, and carried out a research fellowship at Hawaii’s East-West Center in 2000. He led a United States-Asia Environmental Partnership project to Hong Kong in 1999, and received an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in 1996 that allowed him to conduct research in Malaysia for two months.
Selected Publications
Benjamin Sovacool and Jack Barkenbus, “Necessary but Insufficient: State Renewable Portfolio Standards and Climate Change Policies,” Environment, July/August, 2007.
Jack Barkenbus, “Putting Energy Efficiency in a Sustainability Context: The Cold Facts about Refrigerators,” Environment, October, 2006.
Jack Barkenbus, “Reconciling Trade and Environment in East Asia,” in International Environmental Cooperation, Paul Harris (ed.), (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press), 2002.
Jack Barkenbus, “APEC and the Environment: Civil Society in an Age of Globalization,” AsiaPacific Issues, March 2001.
