Daniel Driscoll is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia (UVA), focusing on decarbonization, economic policy, and finance. He is currently completing a book titled Why Carbon Taxes Failed, under contract with Oxford University Press.
His research has been published in journals such as Social Problems and Review of International Political Economy and has garnered attention from outlets such as the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Driscoll has received funding from organizations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Before joining UVA, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He has held visiting researcher positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Driscoll earned his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.