DavidÌýCiplet
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair of Community Engagement
- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Address
SEEC S208
Office Hours
Tuesdays: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Students can email Dave with "Office hours: Name" in the subject line
Education
- Ph.D. 2015 Brown University
David Ciplet is a sociologist focused onÌýunderstandingÌýhow relationships of power and inequality in environmental governance shape efforts for a more socially just society.ÌýFrom the negotiating halls of the United Nations to community center meeting rooms, his research uses participatory qualitative methods to explore processes of social change in climate change politics.
He has current research projects in three areas. First, he collaborativelyÌýstudies the impacts of extreme temperatures on incarcerated individuals in the United States, and what is needed for a ‘just transition’ in this area. Second, he works to inform more equitable approaches to global climate change governance, including through the provision of global climate finance. Third, he conducts research on ‘transition tensions,’ which includes tradeoffs between sustainability and justice priorities as we shift to a low carbon economy.Ìý
CipletÌýis a founding member and Director of the Climate and Incarceration Research Collective at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. He previously founded and co-directed the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Just Transition Collaborative, which worked to ensure that transitions to sustainable energy are rooted in the leadership and needs of those most directly impacted by forms of social and environmental inequality. He works with his students and KGNU radio station to produce the series the Brink: Stories of Inequality, Struggle and Transformation.ÌýCiplet is an avid trail runner, mountain and gravel biker, and skier, lover of good fiction, and grateful husband and father.
CipletÌýis a founding member and Director of the Climate and Incarceration Research Collective at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. He previously founded and co-directed the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Just Transition Collaborative, which worked to ensure that transitions to sustainable energy are rooted in the leadership and needs of those most directly impacted by forms of social and environmental inequality. He works with his students and KGNU radio station to produce the series the Brink: Stories of Inequality, Struggle and Transformation.ÌýCiplet is an avid trail runner, mountain and gravel biker, and skier, lover of good fiction, and grateful husband and father.
A Note toÌýProspective Graduate Students
Professor Ciplet will not be accepting new graduate students in Fall 2026.
A Note to Prospective ENVS Honors Undergraduate Students
Professor Ciplet is a sociologist who studies issues of environmental justice.ÌýEnvironmental justice (EJ)Ìýrefers to the right to a safe and healthy environment for everyone, regardless of race, class, gender, ability, or other considerations.ÌýHe advises undergraduate students using qualitative social science methods to better understand how environmental problems unequally burden some social groups, and how environmental responses can advance social justice. If you are interested in doing an honors project in this area, please reach out to him with the subject heading "Prospective honors student."