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. He currently is a DRLA fellow at Tulane School of Social Work. 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.
