Michele Betsill is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University, where she teaches courses in international relations, global environmental politics and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, with particular emphasis on the politics of climate change. Her books include:

  • Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (with Harriet Bulkeley; Routledge, 2003),
  • Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (co-edited with Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis; Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and
  • NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations (co-edited with Elisabeth Corell; MIT Press, 2008).

She received her PhD in political science from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Prior to coming to CSU, she was a post-doctoral fellow with the Global Environmental Assessment project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2005, she was the CSU Faculty-in-Residence at the Central and East European Studies Program, Economics University of Prague. Professor Betsill spent her sabbatical (2006-07 academic year) as a Visiting Scientist with the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 

CSU Affiliations
Institute for Society, Landscape and Ecosystem Change (ISLEC)
Changing Climates @ CSU
Center for Multiscale Modelling of Atmospheric Processes
Clean Energy Supercluster
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future (ISEOF)
Political Economy Graduate Certificate
Environmental Affairs Certificate