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Rachel Wetts is an Acacia Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Brown University. Her research examines how cultural and social psychological processes interact with systems of power and privilege to shape American politics. She focuses on areas within American politics that have profound consequences for contemporary American society and societies around the globe, such as white racial resentment and the challenges of stalled political action in addressing climate change. Wetts studies elite-public interactions that influence how the public understands, discusses, and responds to large-scale changes in social relations with the natural world. One line of her research investigates how American organizations frame climate change as an issue, and how the cultural and organizational processes affect which conceptions of climate change become dominant in mainstream media. Her work has been published in respected journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Social Forces, and has been covered by major news outlets including the Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR.
Department: Department of Economics