Dr. Jennifer Hadden

Biography

Jennifer Hadden conducts research on politics and climate change, focusing on NGOs and social movements. Her book, 'Networks in Contention: Divisive Politics of Global Climate Change,' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and has received four book awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association. She is also the author of 'Crowded Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs,' published in 2025 and available as open access from Cambridge University Press. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, and she has held a Fulbright Fellowship. Hadden's work has appeared in notable outlets such as Nature Climate Change, British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, and Foreign Affairs. In the academic year 2015-2016, she held the International Affairs Fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations, which supported her work on the Paris Climate Conference in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State.

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