Rate My Professor Deserai Crow

Crow’s research examines community resilience to climate risks and disasters, local and state policymaking processes, stakeholder participation and influence, environmental policy, natural hazards, and crisis responses, including Colorado’s 2013 floods, 2021 Marshall Fire, and COVID-19 policy variations across states. She co-authored the book Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience (Cambridge University Press, 2021, with Elizabeth A. Albright) and edited Culture, Politics & Climate Change: How Information Shapes our Common Future (Routledge, 2014, with Maxwell T. Boykoff). Prominent articles include those in Policy Sciences, PNAS Nexus, Public Administration Review, and Review of Policy Research on policy learning during crises, visual narrative messaging for vaccine uptake, coalitions in disaster policymaking, and federalism in pandemic responses (2021-2024). Her scholarship has garnered the University of Colorado Denver Distinguished Honor Award (2021), Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Work Award (2021), School of Public Affairs Excellence in Faculty Research Awards (2021, 2023 honorable mention), Charles Redd Award from the Western Political Science Association (2016), and Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award from the American Political Science Association (2015). Crow has obtained NSF grants and contributes to editorial boards and professional service in policy and political science fields.