Dr. Kashwan received his Ph.D. in Public Policy (2011) from Indiana University, Bloomington with specialization in Public and Environmental Affairs and Research Methods. His research, scholarship, and teaching is concentrated in the areas of comparative politics, political economy, environmental politics, international environmental policies and institutions, and the politics of international development. Dr. Kashwan’s research has been published in Regional Environmental Change, Land Use Policy, International Journal of the Commons, Global Environmental Politics, and Journal of Theoretical Politics. His first book, Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico is being published by Oxford University Press (anticipated release in Jan 2017).