Ben Levy
Sociology PhD Candidate
Benjamin Levy is a Fellow at the Global Center for Climate Justice, where he specializes in the study of environmental justice movements; the linkages between global capitalism and the fossil fuel industry; as well as corporate attempts to influence political processes at the local, state, and national levels. He has taught courses for the department on Social Movements, and Class, Power, and Social Change. For his dissertation, Ben is currently researching struggles against the siting of liquefied natural gas infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest and the attempts on the part of regional utility companies to frustrate the implementation of environmental policies in the cities of Seattle and Tacoma.
Dissertation Committee: Chair: Danny Faber, Members: Liza Weinstein, Valentine Moghadam, Charles Derber