Lucy McAllister

Education

Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder

Research Interests

Media and climate change communication; science communication; climate misinformation, corporate social responsibility 

Recent Publication:

McAllister, L., Vedula, S., Pu, W., & Boykoff, M. (2024). Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020). Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), 024046.

Biography

Lucy McAllister is an assistant professor of Sustainability and Environmental Studies at Denison University. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher of sustainability at the Technical University of Munich in the Center for Energy Markets. She holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Lucy’s current research focuses on 1) how the media, politicians, and individuals frame climate change and discuss solutions for public audiences in different parts of the world, 2) how those messages transform over time and place, and 3) how audiences take up and respond to varied climate change discourses. Her dissertation work was selected for a University of Colorado Boulder Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She has also received a Fulbright Teaching Assistant Award and a Boston College Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring Expense Grant. She has published her research in outlets such as Environmental Research Letters, the Health and Human Rights Journal, The Lancet, Science and Engineering Ethics, Sociology of Development, and the Population Reference Bureau. Lucy teaches courses on climate change, environmental justice, the Sustainable Development Goals, and interdisciplinary research methods, among others.