CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics and Sociology (Joint), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2023-Present
  • Pre-candidate for Ph.D.
  • GPA: 4.0
  • Courses: Social Theory 1 & 2, Social Demography, Economic Sociology, Intro. to Adaptive Systems, Network Science, Econometrics 1 & 2
• Sc.B. in Physics (Honors), Brown University, 2016-2020
  • GPA: 3.93
  • Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, nominated for Sigma Xi
• Visiting Student, Oxford University, 2018-2019
  • GPA: 4.0 (converted)
  • Focus: Physics and Philosophy

Work experience

• March 2020 - July 2023: Researcher (Full-time)
  • Climate and Development Lab, Brown University
  • Supervisor: Professor Timmons Roberts
• July 2019 - March 2020: Researcher (Part-time)
  • Climate and Development Lab, Brown University
  • Supervisor: Professor Timmons Roberts
• June 2018 - September 2018: Researcher (Part-time)
  • The Ethics of Geoengineering Project
  • Harvard University
  • Supervisor: Professor Lucas Stanczyk
• March 2017 - March 2018: Researcher/Software Developer (Full-time)
  • Brown Graphics Lab
  • Brown University
  • Supervisor: Professor Andy Van Dam

Publications

Where Ideology Meets Private Interest: The Three-part Composition of Climate Obstruction in the United States

Hall, G., Loy, L., Brulle, R. J., Schell-Smith, K., Hu, M. M., & Trollback, S. (2024). Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States. Environmental Research Communications, 6(8), 081003.

Climate Coalitions and Anti-coalitions: Lobbying across State Legislatures in the United States

Hall, G., Culhane, T., & Roberts, J. T. (2024). Climate coalitions and anti-coalitions: Lobbying across state legislatures in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 113, 103562.

CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States

Hall, G., Basseches, J. A., Bromley-Trujillo, R., & Culhane, T. (2024). CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 1-26.

Climate Policy Conflict in the US States: A Critical Review and Way Forward

Basseches, J. A., Bromley-Trujillo, R., Boykoff, M. T., Culhane, T., Hall, G., Healy, N., Hess, D. J., & Stephens, J. C. (2022). Climate policy conflict in the US states: a critical review and way forward. Climatic Change, 170(3), 32.

Who Delays Climate Action? Interest Groups and Coalitions in State Legislative Struggles in the United States

Culhane, T., Hall, G., & Roberts, J. T. (2021). Who delays climate action? Interest groups and coalitions in state legislative struggles in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 79, 102114.

Obstructing Action: Foundation Funding and US Climate Change Counter-Movement Organizations

Brulle, R. J., Hall, G., Loy, L., & Schell-Smith, K. (2021). Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations. Climatic Change, 166(1-2), 17.

Ethical Choices Behind Quantifications of Fair Contributions Under the Paris Agreement

Dooley, K., Holz, C., Kartha, S., Klinsky, S., Roberts, J. T., Shue, H., Winkler, H., Athanasiou, T., Caney, S., Cripps, E., Dubash, N. K., Hall, G., Harris, P. G., Lahn, B., Moellendorf, D., Müller, B., Sagar, A., & Singer, P. (2021). Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change, 11(4), 300-305.

The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation

Galen Hall, Tom Nicholas, Colleen Schmidt, "The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation." openDemocracy, 2020.

Talks

Climate Coalitions and Anti-coalitions: Lobbying in the U.S. States

August 01, 2023

Conference Presentation at American Sociology Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA

Disentangling Politics and Policymaking: Interest Group Coalitions and Parties in the American States

January 01, 2023

Conference Presentation at Southern Political Science Association Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL

Power in numbers: insights from new data on lobbying in the United States

January 01, 2023

Seminar/Workshop Presentation at Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Unveiling Interest Group Preferences in the American States

June 01, 2022

Conference Presentation at Consortium for American Political Economy Conference, Online

Unveiling Interest Group Preferences in the American States

May 01, 2022

Conference Presentation at State Politics and Policy Quarterly Conference, Tallahassee, FL

Grants

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
  • Amount: $147,000
  • Fellowship funding three years of graduate school stipend and tuition
• CSSN Research Grant (2021)
  • Amount: $26,000
  • PI: Galen Hall
  • Coauthors: Joshua Basseches (University of Michigan), Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo (Christopher Newport University)
  • Project: Research on climate policy and interest groups at the state level
  • Funding source: Climate Social Science Network (www.cssn.org)
• Brown University SPRINT award (2020)
  • Amount: $2,000
  • PI: Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Project: Summer research extending undergraduate thesis results and preparing for academic article submission

Media Publications

• The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation (2020)
  • Published in OpenDemocracy
  • Co-authors: Thomas Nicholas and Colleen Schmidt
  • Critical response to “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy”
  • Featured in The New York Times