Christopher Taylor Brown, MSW
DRLA Senior Fellow
He/Him
Biography
Taylor Brown is a PhD Candidate in Social Welfare with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley and a Research Associate with Tulane’s Consortium for Emergent Disaster Resilience. His work theorizes ecosocial policy and evaluates how social protection and welfare institutions shape climate adaptation and inequality. His current projects span U.S. disaster programs—including FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program and the National Flood Insurance Program—and cross-national energy assistance programs and adaptation planning. Methodologically, he uses econometrics, computational social science, critical text analysis, and field-based survey and evaluation designs. Taylor is also a Senior Data Science Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Social Science Data Lab and founder of the Center for Ecosocial Policy. He holds an MSW from Washington University in St. Louis and a BSW from Harding University.
Education
- PhD (candidate) in Social Welfare with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California at Berkeley
- Certificate in Applied Data Science, University of California at Berkeley
- Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley
- Master of Social Work, Washington University at St. Louis
- Bachelor of Social Work, Harding University
Selected Publications
- Brown, C. T. (in press). Contradictions of the ecowelfare state: The state, the human, and nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism.
- Brown, C. T. (2025). Ecosocial adaptation and the care professions: A systems-ecological approach to climate risk. Social Work in Public Health, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664.
- Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net. Journal of Social Policy, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000126.
