Lara Briggs

Bio

Lara Briggs is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Her research interests are in comparative and environmental politics using quantitative methods. She focuses on relationships between politics and energy, studying questions of political influence, distributive conflicts, collective action, and regime stability from the perspectives of energy transitions, energy security, climate change, and environmental justice. She holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in Political Science (comparative politics & quantitative methods concentrations) and Environmental Analysis. While a student at Washington University, she worked for several years as an associate for the WashU Climate Change Program (now under the Center for the Environment) and interned in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

Contact

• lara.briggs@yale.edu

Education

• B.A., Political Science and Environmental Analysis (Summa Cum Laude), Washington University in St. Louis, 2024