Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Affiliated Faculty, University of Utah
Affiliated Faculty, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, University of Utah
Research Fellow, Earth System Governance (ESG) Network
Affiliated Researcher, The Griffith Criminology Institute and Global Risk Governance Program
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Genomic Medicine
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program

u0906188@utah.edu

Professional Membership

• AIR QUALITY: Topics Board Editor, Atmosphere, 01/01/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Research Fellow, Earth System Governence (ESG) Network, 01/14/2016
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Member, International Studies Association, 02/01/2008

Publications

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Amanda Bertana (2022). “Beyond Maladaptation: Structural Barriers to Successful Adaptation,”. Environmental Sociology (RENS)., 01/01/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel L. Mendoza, Tabitha M. Benney, Ryan Bares, Benjamin Fasoli, Corbin Anderson, Shawn A. Gonzales, Erik T. Crosman & Sebastian Hoch (2022). “Investigation of Indoor and Outdoor Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations in Schools in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA),”. Pollutants 2. Vol. no. 1, 82-97., 01/01/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel L. Mendoza, Tabitha M. Benney, Ryan Bares, Benjamin Fasoli, Corbin Anderson, Shawn A. Gonzales, Erik T. Crosman, Madelyn Bayles, Rachel T. Forrest, John R. Contreras & Sebastian Hoch (2022). “Air quality and behavioral impacts of anti-idling campaigns in school drop off zones,”. Atmosphere. Vol. 13, 706., 01/01/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Tabitha M. Benney, Devon Cantwell, Phillip Singer, Linda Derhak, Samuel Bey & Zahra Saifee (2021). “Understanding Perceptions of Health Risk and Behavioral Responses to Air Pollution in the State of Utah (USA),” 1373. Open access:. Atmosphere (MDPI). Vol. 12, 1373., 12/11/2021
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel L. Mendoza, Tabitha M. Benney, Rajive Ganguli, Rambabu Pothina, Cheryl S Pirozzi, Cameron Quackenbush, Sam Baty, Erik T Crosman & Yue Zhang (2021). The Role of Structural Inequality on COVID-19 Incidence Rates at the Neighborhood Scale in Urban Areas. COVID. Vol. 1, 186-202., 08/01/2021
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel Mendoza, Tabitha M. Benney & Sarah Boll (2021). Long-term Analysis of the Relationships between Indoor and Outdoor Fine Particulate Pollution: A Case Study Using Research Grade Sensors. Science of the Total Environment. Vol. 776, 145778., 07/01/2021
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel Mendoza, Tabitha M. Benney, Ryan Bares & Erik T Crosman (2021). Intra-city variability of fine particulate matter during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study from Park City, Utah. Environmental Research. Vol. 201, 111471., 06/01/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Michele Betsill, Tabitha Benney & Andrea Gerlak (2020). Agency in Earth System Governance. Cambridge University Press., 12/01/2020 GLOBAL
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel Mendoza, Martin Buchert & John Lin (2020). The Impact of Media and Environmental Variables on Transit Ridership. Vehicles. Vol. 2, 507-522., 08/12/2020
• AIR QUALITY: Daniel L Mendoza, Rajive Ganguli, Rambabu Pothina, Yue Zhang , Erik T Crosman, Cheryl S Pirozzi & Benjamin Krick (2020). Understanding the Relationship between Social Distancing Policies, Traffic Volume, Air Quality, and the Prevalence of COVID-19 Outcomes in Urban Neighborhoods. ArXiv., 07/16/2020
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Prasoon Singh, Galeotti, Marzio, Zimmer, Markus, Sedaoui, Radia, Otto, Christian & Lunga, Wilfred (2020). Policy Brief: Coastal Challenges: Mainstream Climate Action in the G20 Development Agenda. Task Force 2: Climate Change and Environment, G-20 Commission, Saudi Arabia., 03/02/2020 GLOBAL
• AIR QUALITY: Tabitha M. Benney, Robert Chaney, Phillip Singer & Chantel Sloan (2020). Utah Air Quality Risk and Behavioral Action Survey Dataset. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research., 02/24/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Gerlak, A., Betsill, M., Patterson, J., Chan, S., Benney, T., Brisbois, M., . . . Scobie, M. (2020). Conclusion: Policy Implications of ESG–Agency Research and Reflections on the Road Ahead. In M. Betsill, T. Benney, & A. Gerlak (Eds.), Agency in Earth System Governance (pp. 183-197). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108688277.015, 01/31/2020 GLOBAL
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Scobie, M., Benney, T., Brown, C., & Widerberg, O. (2020). Conceptualizing Agency and Agents in Earth System Governance. In M. Betsill, T. Benney, & A. Gerlak (Eds.), Agency in Earth System Governance (pp. 25-37). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108688277.002, 01/31/2020 GLOBAL
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Benney, T., Orsini, A., Cantwell, D., & Iozzelli, L. (2020). Theories and Methods of Agency Research in Earth System Governance. In M. Betsill, T. Benney, & A. Gerlak (Eds.), Agency in Earth System Governance (pp. 38-51). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108688277.003, 01/31/2020 GLOBAL
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Betsill, M., Benney, T., Gerlak, A., Brown, C., Chan, S., Enechi, O., . . . Widerberg, O. (2020). Introduction: Agency in Earth System Governance. In M. Betsill, T. Benney, & A. Gerlak (Eds.), Agency in Earth System Governance (pp. 3-24). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108688277.001, 01/31/2020 GLOBAL
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Michele Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney & Andrea K. Gerlak (2020). Agency in Earth System Governance Dataset. Earth System Governance Network., 01/01/2020 GLOBAL
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Froestad, Jan and Benney, Tabitha M. (2019) “China: A Green Energy Fulcrum?” in Environmental and Planning Law (Thomson Reuters) 36: 605-618., 09/30/2019 CHINA
• ENERGY: Tabitha Benney (2019). “Renewable Energy and the Varieties of Capitalism in Emerging Economies” . Journal of Economic Policy Reform., 08/14/2019 GLOBAL
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Tabitha Benney (2018). “Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Vulnerability" in Routledge Handbook on Ethics in International Relations.. (pp. Chapter 27). Routledge Press., 06/28/2018 GLOBAL
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tabitha Benney & Stacy D. VanDeveer (2018). “Review of Craig M. Kauffman’s Grassroots Global Governance: Local Watershed Managements Experiments and the Evolution of Sustainable Development”. (pp. 159-159). Vol. 18. Global Environmental Politics., 05/01/2018 ECUADOR

Presentations

• AIR QUALITY: Speaker, “Intra-city variability of fine particulate matter during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study from Park City, Utah,” Department of Geography, University of Utah, 10/01/2021
• AIR QUALITY: “COVID-19: Global Challenges to Global Transformation,” Joint Meeting of the Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata, India, 06/16/2021 INDIA
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: “Low Carbon Energy Transitions in the Westphalian System,” International Studies Association, Las Vegas NV (April 2021)., 04/13/2021
• AIR QUALITY: “Intra-city variability of fine particulate matter during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study from Park City, Utah.” Air Quality: Science for Solutions Conference (March 2021)., 03/25/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: “Prioritizing Equity in Climate Resilience Planning,” Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah (2021), 03/03/2021
• AIR QUALITY: “Impacts of Structural Inequality and Pandemic Policies on COVID-19 Outcomes at the Neighborhood Level in Salt Lake County” University of Utah, Nexus Center, 01/21/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Panelist, “Prioritizing Equity in Climate Resilience Planning,” Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah, 01/21/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “Social and Behavioral Perspectives on Negative Emission Technologies,” Carbon Storage in the Built Environment, University of Utah (December 2019)., 12/09/2020
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “COVID-19: Global Challenges to Global Transformation,” Joint Meeting of the Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata, India, 06/03/2020 INDIA
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: “Environmental Change in Social and Behavioral Sciences,” The Air We Breathe: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Air Quality, University of Utah , 03/12/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Social and Behavioral Perspectives on Negative Emission Technologies,” Carbon Storage in the Built Environment, University of Utah , 12/04/2019
• AIR QUALITY: “Environmental Change in Social and Behavioral Sciences,” The Air We Breathe: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Air Quality, University of Utah, 10/21/2019
• ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: • “China: A Global Renewable Energy Fulcrum?” Energy Transitions: Governing Unconventional Gas, Renewables and the Energy-Environment Nexus, the PLuS Alliance Workshop, UNSW Law, Sydney, Australia, 02/13/2019 CHINA
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “The ESG-Agency Harvesting Initiative,” Agency Harvesting Workshop, Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, (Nov 2018). , 11/08/2018 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Theories and Methods of ESG-Agency Research,” Agency Harvesting Workshop, Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, (Nov 2018)., 11/06/2018 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Theories and Methods of ESG-Agency Research,” Agency Harvesting Workshop, Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, (Nov 2018)., 11/01/2018 GLOBAL
• ENERGY: “Innovations in Comparative Capitalism" Working Group Co-Convener, International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, CA , 04/03/2018 AFRICA EASTERN EUROPE EGYPT TUNISIA
• ENERGY: “Renewable Energy in Emerging and Developing Economies” Innovations in Comparative Capitalism, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT , 09/28/2017

Teaching

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Health, Air Pollution and Population Initiative in Education and Science Training (HAPPIEST), 07/01/2021-06/30/2022

Internal Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: "Environmental Justice", 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ENERGY: “Energy Equity and the Obstacles to Energy Resilience in Vulnerable Communities.” , 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: "Dialogue on Disparities: Policy and Economic Implications of Environmental Inequalities": NEXUS Center, 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• AIR QUALITY: “Understanding the Air Quality Policy Interface,” SUST 6000 (February 2022) , 02/08/2022-02/11/2022
• AIR QUALITY: "Intra-city variability of fine particulate matter during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study from Park City, Utah” , 10/01/2021-10/31/2021
• AIR QUALITY: “Understanding Air Pollution,” Introduction to Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Utah , 03/03/2021-05/03/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: “Prioritizing Equity in Climate Resilience Planning,” Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah (2021), 01/10/2021-02/10/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Economics Impacts, University of Utah Climate Resilience Report Committee , 10/07/2020-04/30/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Economics Impacts, University of Utah Climate Resilience Report Committee, 07/2020-06/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: College of Behavioral and Social Science Representative, Global Change and Sustainability (GCSC) Executive Committee, 07/01/2019-06/30/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Go Learn - India, 01/01/2019-12/31/2020 INDIA

Professional Service

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Beyond maladaptation: structural barriers to successful adaptation, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK Ministerial Office of Government, 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: "Air Quality in Utah", CLIMATE: Keep Growing Tuesday, Maven District, 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: "Energy Equity and the Obstacles to Energy Resilience in Vulnerable Communities.", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society Grid Resilience Workshop, 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• AIR QUALITY: "Climate and the Air We Breathe", Maven District: Grow Event, Salt Lake City, Utah, 07/01/2022-06/30/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “Government Responses to Climate Change,” International Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, International Studies Association, 04/05/2021-04/12/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “The Environment, Climate Change and the Dynamics of Peace and Conflict,” International Studies Association, Las Vegas NV , International Studies Association, 04/05/2021-04/12/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Climate Change Management: Institutional and Policy Responses, International Studies Association, Las Vegas NV, 04/2021
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Contesting Carbon and the Struggles for Clean Energy, International Studies Association, Las Vegas NV, 04/2021
• ENERGY: Secretariat of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) , REN21, 01/01/2021-05/31/2021 GLOBAL
• AIR QUALITY: Topic Board Editor, Atmosphere, 09/01/2020-10/01/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Reviewer, Sustainability, 05/06/2020-06/06/2020
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Secretariat of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), REN21, 01/01/2020-05/31/2020 GLOBAL
• ENERGY: Reviewer, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 03/02/2019-12/31/2019
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Advisory Committee, G-20 Commission. Task Force 2: Climate Change and Environment, Saudi Arabia Ministry (2019-2020)., G-20 Commission, 03/01/2019-12/31/2020 GLOBAL
• WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Task Force 2: Climate Change and Environment, G-20 Commission Saudi Arabia Ministry , G-20 Commission, 01/01/2019-12/01/2020 GLOBAL
• ENERGY: GSR 2019 Expert Contributor for the Secretariat of the Renewable energy Policy Network for the the 21st Century., REN21, 11/05/2018-06/21/2019 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Panel, “Transnational Governance & the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring New Frontiers,” Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, Earth System Governance Network, 11/05/2018-11/09/2018 GLOBAL
• CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Panel, “Theoretical and Methodological Foundation of Science, Knowledge and Uncertainty,” Earth System Governance Annual Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, Earth System Governance Network, 11/05/2018-11/09/2018 GLOBAL
• CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Discussant on panel, "What is Agency." ESG Annual conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, Earth System Governance Network, 11/05/2018-11/08/2018 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Harold & Margaret Sprout Award Committee, Environmental Studies Section (ESS) , International Studies Association (ISA), 01/01/2018-12/31/2018 GLOBAL
• ENERGY: Reviewer, Energy Politics , 01/01/2016
• ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: ESG Researcher, Earth System Governance Network, 01/01/2016 GLOBAL
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Reviewer, Global Politics , 01/01/2016
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Reviewer, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science , 01/01/2016-11/23/2016

Media

• ENERGY: New center brings U-EPIC research power to the energy transition, At the U by Paul Gabrielson and Staff, 10/07/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Anti-idling campaign reduces idling time at elementary schools - 'Nerdmobile' sampled air quality in pick-up/drop-off line during the study, 05/03/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Study measures indoor air quality in two Salt Lake City high schools, 03/08/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Interviewed and quoted by Ellen Cowley (Jan 28, 2022) “Air Pollution is Not a New Cause of Death,” The Daily Utah Chronicle. , 01/28/2022
• ENERGY: “New center brings U-EPIC research power to the energy transition,” At the U, by Paul Gabrielson and Staff , 01/07/2022
• AIR QUALITY: The Air We Share – University of Utah Home Coming Event, 01/2022
• AIR QUALITY: The Air We Share – University of Utah Home Coming Event, 01/2022
• AIR QUALITY: Andrew Weyrich (Sept 20, 2021) “How COVID-19 is spurring research on campus,” Good Notes Blog., 09/20/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Interviewed live on ABC In Focus (ABC4) on August 19, 2021 about “Societal Inequality and COVID-19 Outcomes” , 08/19/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Salt Lake Tribune on August 9, 2021, “Study: Residents of poorer neighborhoods got COVID at 10 times the rate of those in affluent neighborhoods” , 08/09/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Fox News (Fox 13) on July 15, 2021 about “Study shows how Park City air pollution changed during pandemic” , 07/15/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: “How air pollution changed during COVID-19 in Park City, Utah,” Science Alert, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) , 07/08/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: “How air pollution changed during COVID-19 in Park City, Utah” by Paul Gabrielson (July 2021) At the U News. , 07/01/2021
• AIR QUALITY: Carter Williams (2021) “Poor air quality outside can produce higher levels of pollution indoors, Utah study finds,” KSL, 02/23/2021
• AIR QUALITY: “How outdoor pollution affects indoor air quality,” Science Alert, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 02/22/2021
• AIR QUALITY: Interview and article about recent publication, “Weather messaging, air quality and how they may impact transit ridership” KSL, 09/08/2020
• AIR QUALITY: “Weather messaging, air quality and how they may impact transit ridership,” by Amy Joi Donoghue for Deseret News., 09/07/2020
• AIR QUALITY: How weather news impacts public transit ridership,” Science Daily , 08/31/2020
• AIR QUALITY: Utah Air Quality Survey Interview, “Utah Insights,” on PBS, 03/17/2020
• AIR QUALITY: Quoted in Salt Lake Tribune, “Op-Ed: “Dan Reed and Mike Good: It’s not too late to clean up the air in Utah,” by Dan Reed and Mike Good, 10/13/2019
• AIR QUALITY: Air Quality Interview, KSL News , 10/02/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Commentator, "Utah's Public Lands," for Energy and Environmental News., 07/03/2018

Grants

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: “The Compounding Impacts of Climate Change, Air Quality, and Environmental Injustice on Health Outcomes in SLCo Schools” . PI: Tabitha Benney. Co-PI(s): Brett Clark, 01/31/2022-03/31/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Intermountain West Rural Climate and Air Quality Sensor Network Pilot. PI: Daniel Mendoza. Co-PI(s): Tabitha Benney, 12/01/2021-03/01/2023
• CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Intra-city variability of fine particulate matter following COVID-19: A Case Study of Park City, UT (USA). PI: Tabitha Benney. Co-PI(s): Daniel Mendoza, 03/01/2021-03/01/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: What We Know (and Need to Know) to Avoid Climate Change Maladaptation. PI: Tabitha Benney. Co-PI(s): Amanda Bertana, 03/31/2020-08/31/2020 GLOBAL