Morgan Edwards
Credentials: Assistant Professor
Email: morgan.edwards@wisc.edu
Address:
2442 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
About
Morgan Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs. Her research and teaching focus on human-centered energy responses to the climate crisis across policymaking scales. She draws on mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, combining large datasets and community knowledge with systems modeling, to assess and track the multi-dimensional impacts of human energy use. Current projects focus on fixing leaks in natural gas distribution systems, accelerating the phase-out of coal power plants, and assessing the equity implications of large-scale use of negative emissions technologies.
Professor Edwards received her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and her B.S. in Environmental Science and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to Madison, she was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland.
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Education
- PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Data, Systems, and Society
- S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy
- BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science, Economics
Courses
Public affairs courses taught by Morgan Edwards:
PA 240 Evidence-Based Policy Making