JoAnn Carmin was a Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University’s Center for Environmental Solutions where she conducted comparative international research on the role and impact of civil society actors in environmental policy and transboundary risk management.

Dr. Carmin received her B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University in management and organizational behavior and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in environmental policy and planning. She received additional training as a John D. Rockefeller Fellow at Yale University’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations and as a participant in the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar. She has received research support from the National Science Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Carmin formerly was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech and is a Fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.