Thomas Marlow
  • Assistant Professor

Biography

Thomas's work sits at the intersection of environmental and urban sociology and data science. It seeks to use innovative computational social science methodologies to answer questions about environmental inequalities during global climate change and barriers to advancing policy to promote the just transition to a more sustainable future. Thomas received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2020 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) at New York University in Abu Dhabi for four years prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M. Thomas's work has been published in academic journals such as Socius, Sociological Science, and interdisciplinary journals such as Environmental Research Letters. His research has been covered in media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC, Washington Post, Scientific American, and Arstechnica.

Courses Taught at Texas A&M

  • SOCI 420: Advanced Methods of Social Research

Representative Media Coverage

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/sea-level-rise-may-flood-toxins-out-of-abandoned-industrial-sites/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/29/opinion/where-white-people-go-where-black-people-go-cellphone-data-reveals-how-segregated-bostonians-are-their-movements/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis

Research Interests

  • Environmental Sociology
  • Urban Sociology
  • Computational Social Science

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. Brown University

Selected Publications

    • Marlow, T. and Makovi, K. (2023) ‘Non-transformative climate policy options decrease conservative support for renewable energy in the US’, Environmental Research Letters, 18(2), p. 024002. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acaf3c.
    • Marlow, T., Makovi, K. and Abrahao, B. (2023) ‘Durable Change in U.S. Urban Mobility Networks, 2019–2022’, Socius, 9, p. 23780231231198857. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231198857.
    • Marlow, T., Elliott, J.R. and Frickel, S. (2022) ‘Future flooding increases unequal exposure risks to relic industrial pollution’, Environmental Research Letters, 17(7), p. 074021. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac78f7.
    • Marlow, T., Miller, S. and Roberts, J.T. (2021) ‘Bots and online climate discourses: Twitter discourse on President Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement’, Climate Policy, 0(0), pp. 1–13. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1870098.