GJE Conference Opening Panel: Ed Balleisen and Kay Jowers in conversation with Kerilyn Schewel

A conversation between Ed Balleisen, Kay Jowers and Kerilyn Schewel on Community Engaged Research at Duke.
Edward Balleisen is Professor of History and Public Policy. Arriving at Duke in 1997, Professor Balleisen’s research explores the historical intersections among law, business, politics, and policy in the modern US, with a focus on the origins, evolution, and impacts of the modern regulatory state. He has pursued projects with historians and other social scientists who study regulatory governance in industrialized and industrializing societies. From 2010-2015, Balleisen directed the Rethinking Regulation Project, sponsored by Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. Since 2015, Prof. Balleisen has served as Duke’s third Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, working with university-wide institutes and initiatives to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement.
Kay Jowers is Director for Just Environments at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Her work focuses on analyzing state regulatory and policy approaches to addressing environmental issues and engages with
environmental equity, ethics, and justice in particular. She co-directs the Environmental Justice Lab, a collaboration with the Duke Economics Department.
Kerilyn Schewel is a sociologist, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and faculty director of the GJE Fellowship. Her research examines the root causes of human migration and immobility, with an emphasis on the themes of gender, youth, rural development, and climate
change. Her work has been published in Social Forces, Population and Development Review, and International Migration Review, among others. Her book, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Video by Devon Henry with Academic Media Production at Duke University
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