Fellow
Ezra Markowitz
Fellow
Ezra Markowitz is a Fellow with the FrameWorks Institute and an assistant professor at UMass Amherst in the Department of Environmental Conservation. Prior to that, he completed post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton and Columbia Universities. His research centers on the intersection of social and moral psychology, environmental conservation, communications, and policy. Current projects include research on the consequences of communicating uncertain climate information with the public, an examination of the “environmental compassion fade” phenomenon, and an analysis of cross-national climate change threat perceptions. Ezra received his PhD from the University of Oregon in 2012 and was a graduate research fellow with the National Science Foundation; a scholar-in-residence at American University; and a staff member at PolicyInteractive.