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Megan Mullin, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy  

Office Location: Grainger Hall 4118, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: megan.mullin@duke.edu
Web Page: https://sites.duke.edu/mullin/

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 2005

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Bell, EV; Hansen, K; Mullin, M. "Assessing Performance and Capacity of US Drinking Water Systems." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 149.1 (January, 2023). [doi]  [abs]
    2. Bell, EV; Fencl, A; Mullin, M. "External drivers of participation in regional collaborative water planning." Policy Studies Journal 50.4 (November, 2022): 945-969. [doi]  [abs]
    3. MULLIN, M; HANSEN, K. "Local News and the Electoral Incentive to Invest in Infrastructure." American Political Science Review (October, 2022): 1-6. [doi]  [abs]
    4. Keeler, AG; Mullin, M; McNamara, DE; Smith, MD. "Buyouts with rentbacks: a policy proposal for managing coastal retreat." Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 12.3 (September, 2022): 646-651. [doi]  [abs]
    5. Mullin, M. "To adapt to climate impacts, come to grips with politics.." Nature 609.7925 (September, 2022): 9. [doi]

    Highlight:
    Megan Mullin is Professor of Environmental Politics at the Nicholas School. She has secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Sanford School of Public Policy.

    Mullin is a scholar of American political institutions and behavior, focusing on environmental politics. Current areas of research include the governance and finance of urban water services, public opinion about climate change, and the local politics of climate adaptation. Mullin's work has appeared in Nature, Science, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, among other journals, and she is author of Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water (MIT Press, 2009). Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Carnegie Corporation, the JEHT Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. 

    Mullin is the recipient of five awards from the American Political Science Association and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Duke Graduate School. She is a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

    Megan Mullin