Jack N. Barkenbus Associate Director
Climate Change Research Network/
Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment
154 Buttrick Hall
Nashville, TN 37240
jack.barkenbus@vanderbilt.edu
(615) 343-1041
Short Bio
Ph.D., International Studies, University of Denver
B.A., Political Science, Kalamazoo College
Dr. Barkenbus, a political scientist and researcher, joined Vanderbilt in 2006.He is currently an Associate Director of the Climate Change Research Network, affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment.
His research career has focused on the interface of energy technologies and institutions.Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was Executive Director of the Energy, Environment and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Dr. Barkenbus also served 10 years as senior scientist for the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Prior to moving to East Tennessee, he was employed by Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and at the Scripps Institute 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 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 is currently the Executive Director of the Tennessee Higher Education Sustainability Association (THESA), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing sustainability within higher education institutions in Tennessee.
Selected Publications
Jack Barkenbus, “Our Electric Automotive Future: CO2 Savings through a Disruptive Technology,” Policy and Society (27), 2009.
Jack Barkenbus, “Supersizing the American Dream in an Era of Climate Change,” Environmental Law Review: News&Analysis, December, 2008.
Jack Barkenbus (co-author), “Individual Carbon Emissions: The Low-Hanging Fruit,” UCLA Law Review (55), August 2008
