ESSAYS, OP-EDS & OTHER WRITING

“The problem of compensation and moral economies of climate change,” essay in the European economic sociology electronic newsletter, March 2021.

“Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program show the moral and political dimensions of addressing Climate Change,” LSE US Centre blog on American Politics and Policy, February 19, 2021.

“The Useful Discomfort of Critical Climate Social Science,” Social Science Research Council Items blog. With Kasia Paprocki, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Liz Koslov, May 2019.

“After the flood, the flood map: uncovering values at risk,” ASA Work in Progress blog, October 8, 2018. Cross-posted at PreventionWeb.

"Elliott: Don't get back to normal," The Houston Chronicle, September 9, 2017.

"It’s not a lack of information that stops many Americans from adapting to flood risks; it’s a lack of cash," LSE US Centre blog on American Politics and Policy, September 7, 2017.

"In Hurricane Harvey's Wake, We Need a Green 'New Deal'," The New York Times, August 31, 2017.

"Conflicted calculation: Emotion and natural hazard risk," Risk & Regulation, Summer 2017.

"Stormy Waters: The Fight Over New York City's Flood Lines," Harper's Monthly, June 2017, with Elizabeth Rush.

"New Frontiers in Economic Sociology: Socio-Economic Approaches to Sustainability," essay in the newsletter for European Economic Sociology, March 2015.

"Flood Insurance Affordability and Availability," guest blog post for United Policyholders, April 8, 2015.

"Flood Insurance Sagas" blog series, Zone A New York, March - May 2014. This blog series, which helps homeowners in the New York City area navigate recent changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, was awarded the Berkeley Alumni Prize for Public Sociology in May 2014. Zone A is no longer operating, but the link here will take you to a pdf of the posted blogs.

“Coping with Big Flood Insurance Changes in NYC, Part IV: Mitigation,” guest blog post for the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, October 1, 2014. 

"Cities and People Project: A White Paper on Human Interaction with the Built Environment," a paper I co-authored as a Research Associate for the Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship in Berkeley, CA, March 2012.

“Ditch Your Laptop, Dump Your Boyfriend,” The New York Times, September 25, 2010. 

Film

‘Why Is the Climate Crisis Making Flood Insurance a Necessity?’ NowThisNews (Vox Media) video feature on flood insurance, Feb 2023.

“America’s Flood Insurance Problem,” Thomson Reuters Foundation, October 2021.

Hot Money, January 2021.

“Scarier than another storm,” LSE Research Film, May 2020.

PODCASTS

Guest on NewCities threesixtyCITY podcast, March 2021.

Guest on NPR’s Life Raft podcast, February 2021.

Guest on Episode 8 of Geographies of Risk podcast, October 2020.

Guest on Episode 2 on The Civic Sociologist podcast, April 2019.

Panelist on LSE IQ podcast, “Can we afford our consumer society?”, December 2018.

Guest on Episode 7 ('Housing') of Breached, May 2018.

EVENTS

“Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change,” MAS Context, May 2023.

Panelist on “New World Order 2035,” LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders, March 2019.

Social media champion for Sustainability as the Sixth Giant, LSE Research Festival: Beveridge 2.0, February 2018.