Jennifer Jacquet

Jennifer Jacquet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Director of XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at NYU. She is also deputy director of NYU’s Center for Environmental and Animal Protection and Affiliated Faculty in the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science. Her research focuses on animals and the environment, agnotology, and attribution and responsibility in the Anthropocene. She also author of Is Shame Necessary? (Pantheon/Penguin, 2015) about the evolution, function, and future of the use of social disapproval in a globalized, digitized world, and of The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World (Pantheon/Penguin) forthcoming in June of 2022 — a work of ‘epistolary non-fiction’ that makes the business case for scientific denial. She is the recipient of a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship and a 2016 Pew fellowship in marine conservation.