Jack L. Markowitz is a doctoral candidate in Public Affairs (Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy) at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, Jack studies with Elke U. Weber (Behavioral Science for Policy Lab) and Benjamin H. Bradlow. As an interdisciplinary social scientist using qualitative methods from a breadth of disciplinary traditions, Jack conducts research on the factors that impact people’s environmental values and the environmental policy outcomes of social movements. He is interested in variations of policy outcomes in different regions of the world.
Jack holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale School of the Environment, where he graduated from the Success Lab with a thesis examining the environmental justice in the Chilean estallido social of 2019 and subsequent Constitutional Convention. He has also earned degrees in Sustainability Science, Spanish Language and Literature, and Latin American and LatinX Studies from Furman University, and an Associate of Arts from Greenville Technical College. His undergraduate research addresses geographic distribution of ecosystem services and their interactions and considers how policy mechanisms contribute to the success of multifunctional ecosystems.