Ankit Bhardwaj
College Fellow
- ankit.bhardwaj@northwestern.edu
- Website
- 1810 Chicago Ave, Room 221
- Office Hours: by appointment
Area(s) of Interest
Climate Change
Relevant Links
Biography
Ankit Bhardwaj is an environmental sociologist who uses qualitative methods to research how democracies respond to climate change.
Alongside studying how cultural norms of deliberation shape climate action, his work contributes to debates on the relationship between democracy and expertise, infrastructure governance, and environmental racism.
His dissertation details the case of New York, as it pursued one of the world’s most ambitious emission-reduction mandates, building on his research on expertise on decarbonization, India’s climate governance, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s environmental theories.
This work has received awards and honorable mentions from the American Sociological Association's sections on Environmental Sociology, Culture, and Theory. It has been published in Sociological Theory and Environmental Research Letters, amongst other venues. He received his PhD from New York University in 2025.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 306 - Sociological Theory