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Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Fox-Dichter, S., Brown, C. T., Gassman-Pines, A., Rothwell, D., & Nikolova, K. (in press). A racial equity analysis of state TANF caseload trends: Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Population Research and Policy Review.

Brown, C. T. (2026). Social inclusion, welfare states, and ecosocial adaptation: A global analysis. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, First View, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2026.10090

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2026). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the US ecosocial safety net. Journal of Social Policy, 55(2), 522–541. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000126

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2025). Hotspots of inequity in climate adaptation: Explaining the stratification of U.S. ecowelfare using space-time and machine learning analysis. Climate, 13(12), 244. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13120244

Brown, C. T. (2025). Contradictions of the ecowelfare state: The state, the human, and nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2587871

Brown, C. T. (2025). Ecosocial adaptation and the care professions: A systems-ecological approach to climate risk. Social Work in Public Health, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664

Brik, A. B., & Brown, C. T. (2025). A critical review of conceptualization and measurement of social inclusion: Directions for conceptual clarity. Social Policy and Society, First View, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746425000302

Brown, C. T., & Ben Brik, A. (2025). Welfare regime typologies: The six worlds of social inclusion. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2024.14

Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (2025). Temporary measures or lasting reform? Examining Gulf States’ evolving welfare policies in response to the global health crisis. Social Policy & Society, First Look, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746424000630

Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (2024). Global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy: A systematic review and research agenda. Social Policy & Society, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474642400054X

Gounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (2024). Limitations of ecomodernist climate change mitigation: The case of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the (un)just transition. Critical Social Policy, 45(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241281349

Brown, C. T., Mehta, M., Ryali, M., Dong, C., Shadfar, I., Dominguez Davalos, J., Culich, A., & Suen, A. (2024). The Data Science Discovery Program: A case for data science consulting in higher education. Stat, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.677

Miller, S., Roll, S., Brown, C. T., Brugger, L., & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2024). Which side (of the balance sheet) are you on? Household financial resources and participation in the 2020 protests. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 50(4). https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4671

Brown, C. T., Ocampa, M. G., & Drake, B. (2022). The politics of child welfare: Are child welfare policies, budgets, and functioning a red/blue issue? Children and Youth Services Review, 132, 106282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106282

Brown, C. T., & Harrold, J. (2021). Widowhood and mental health issues: Predictors of anxiety, depression, and PTSD among those who have been widowed. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373211054189

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (in press). United States: An evolving liberal welfare state—deepening workfare and fragmentation. In Wang, J. S.-H. & Marx, I. (Eds.), Worlds of Welfare: Comparing Safety Nets Across the Globe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Brown, C. T. (in press). Ecosocial policy. In Aspalter, C. (Ed.), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy. Edward Elgar.

Brown, C. T. (in press). Computational social policy. In Aspalter, C. (Ed.), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy. Edward Elgar.

Hamilton, G., & Brown, C. T. (2025). What is environmental justice? In Rogerson, C. & Vandergrift, K. F. (Eds.), Introduction to Social Justice. Solana Beach: Cognella.

Perone, A., Brown, C. T., Fletcher, K., & Urrutia, L. (2025). The five C’s of climate change and caregiving: Moving from catastrophe to cohesive caregiving for older adults. In Pillemer, K. & Ayalon, L. (Eds.), Aging and Climate Change. Bristol: Policy Press.

Brown, C. T., & Gilbert, N. (2024). Comparative social policy. Encyclopedia of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.879

Brown, C. T., White, R., Pevitz, A., & Martin, J. (2023). Civic education and social justice: Moving toward a pedagogy of community organizing and community-based participatory methods. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (Eds.), Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

White, R., Brown, C. T., Pevitz, A., & Martin, J. (2023). Contextualization of transformative civic education. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (Eds.), Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

Davidson, T., Brown, C. T., Rathbun, H., Jerolleman, A., Awbrey, M., Guerke, M., Leahy, C., Feliscar, L., Logan, A., Patton, N., & Ferreira, R. (2025). Practitioner perspectives on disaster assistance reform: A roadmap of obstacles to avoid. Full report—Part I of III. Consortium for Emergent Disaster Resilience. https://cedrhub.org/publications/

Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., & Keh, M. (2025). Geographic and racial disparities in employment, earnings, sanctions, and reentries in CalWORKs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. https://escholarship.org/content/qt9z39r8kv/qt9z39r8kv.pdf

Bandaru, S., Brown, C. T., Goldstein, E., Serwin, A., & Taylor, P. (2021). CLT Policy Playbook. Center for Social Development.

Brown, C. T. (2025, Sep.). Banners across the West Coast call out Chevron’s ties to genocide and climate change. California Red, California Democratic Socialists of America. https://www.californiadsa.org/news/boycottchevron2025sep

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024, Oct.). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. The Social Policy Blog. https://socialpolicyblog.com/2024/10/24/ecosocial-policy-and-the-social-risks-of-climate-change-foundations-of-the-u-s-ecosocial-safety-net/

Brown, C. T. (2023, Sep. 2). Facing climate disasters, young Americans deserve a strong ‘ecosocial’ safety net. The Messenger. https://themessenger.com/opinion/facing-climate-disasters-young-americans-deserve-a-strong-ecosocial-safety-net

Rivkin-Fish, Z., Fichman, B., & Brown, C. T. (2021, Jul. 8). New opportunities from the Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband to connect your community to the internet. CTC Technology & Energy. https://www.ctcnet.us/blog/new-opportunities-from-the-maryland-office-of-statewide-broadband/

Brown, C. T. (2020). We are the cure: How to help our democracy recover from the pandemic. Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement. https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/university-wide-initiatives/this-civic-moment/thiscivicmomentseries/thiscivicmoment-taylor-brown/

Statecraft (in development). A computational tool that scrapes, classifies, and summarizes legislation and administrative policy across every level of U.S. government using open large language models.

Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., & Keh, M. (2025). CalWORKs WTW Racial Equity Dashboard, Version 2. https://fssrn.shinyapps.io/CalWORKS-WTW-Racial-Equity-Dashboard/

Brown, C. T., Nepomnyaschy, L., & Patel, A. S. (R&R). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs. Journal of Social Policy.

Brown, C. T., Wang, J., Chang, Y.-L., Krmpotic, C., dos Santos Ronzoni, R., Prá, K. R. D., Peng, N., Henley, J., Lee, Y., Kajai, S., Cho, S., Colin, S., & Rodriguez, R. (under review). Fueling ecowelfare: A global comparative analysis of energy and utility assistance. Accepted special issue, Social Policy & Administration.

Brown, C. T. (under review). Do welfare states adapt?: Eco-social risk and welfare in European and U.S. climate adaptation plans. Accepted special issue, Journal of European Social Policy.

Brown, C. T., Dolsak, N., Prakash, A., & Adolph, C. (under review). Does mitigation delay planning for adaptation? A panel analysis, 1995–2020.

Brown, C. T. (under review). Technocare: A critical theory of technology and care.

Brown, C. T., Rakasi, M., & Singhvi, A. (under review). The divided ecowelfare state: The political economy of public-private U.S. disaster relief.

Ben Brik, A., Brown, C. T., & Liang, Q. (under review). Social inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa: Methodology for the A-SCOPE survey in 11 MENA countries.

Awbrey, M., Davidson, T., Feliscar, L., Rathbun, H., Brown, C. T., Ferreira, R. J., Leahy, C., Jerolleman, A., Logan, A., Guerke, M., Contillo, C. M., Bamba, L. A. M., Vermilyea, J., Rose, K., & Buttell, F. P. (under review). A scoping literature review on FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program.

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (working). Adapting the safety net: The role of climate-adapted and ecowelfare programs amid climate change.

Brown, C. T. (working). Growth, degrowth, and regrowth: The dialectic of adaptation and ecowelfare.

Brown, C. T., Dolsak, N., & Prakash, A. (working). Climate and inequality: A distributional capacity framework for mitigation and adaptation.

Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., & Keh, M. (working). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California.

Liang, Q., Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (working). County racial distribution and racial disparities in welfare sanctions: Exploring group threat and contact theories in California’s TANF system.

Gounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (working). Climate policy (in)equity: Analyzing private incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act for investments in climate-vulnerable communities.

2024–2026 Research Associate, Consortium for Equitable Disaster Resilience, Tulane University (PI: Regardt Ferreira)

2023–present Senior Data Science & AI Fellow, Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab) & Data Science Discovery Program, UC Berkeley

2023–2025 Fellow, Working Group in Black/Africana Critical Theory, UC Berkeley

2023–2024 Congressional Doctoral Fellow (CSWE-SSWR-GADE Social Work Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship), Social Work Democracy Project (Dr. Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University)

2023 Fellow, PhD Workshop on Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective, UC Berkeley & Norwegian University of Science and Technology

2023 Fellow, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, UC Los Angeles

2023 Fellow, Data Science for Social Justice Workshop, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

2023–2025 Research Assistant, Racial Equity in the TANF Service Delivery Path to Family Stability and Self-Sufficiency, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley (PI: Yu-Ling Chang)

2023–2025 Research Assistant, Global Welfare Regime Project, National Taiwan University & University of Hong Kong (PI: Julia Shu-Huah Wang)

2023–2025 Research Assistant, Global Social Inclusion Project, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (PI: Anis Ben Brik)

2020–2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Voter Access and Engagement Initiative, Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis (PIs: Gena Gunn McClendon & Michael Sherraden)

2019–2021 Master’s Research Fellow, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Washington University in St. Louis (Supervisor: Jillian A. Martin)

2018–2019 Research Assistant, Beyond Professional Identity, Harding University (PI: James Huff)

2026 Quantitative Methods (DRLS 6032); Research and Evaluation (DRLS 6110) — Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy & School of Social Work, Tulane University

2026 Social Work as a Profession (SOCWEL 110) — School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2021–2022 General Sociology (SOC 2030); Social Work Research (SWK 3300); Field Seminar (SWK 4510); Field Placement (SWK 4520) — Harding University

2025 Social Welfare Policy (SOCWEL 112) — Fall and Spring

2024 Seminar in Social Welfare Research II (SOCWEL 282B)

2023 Poverty and Economic Justice (SOCWEL 116)

Observational and quasi-experimental designs in program evaluation. Seminar in Social Welfare Research, UC Berkeley (2024).

Social work, environmental justice, and ecosocial policy. Introduction to Social Welfare Policy, UC Berkeley (2023).

Statistics in social science research. Community-Based Research, California State University, East Bay (2023).

Introduction to data analysis using SPSS. Research-Informed Practice, University of the Pacific (2022).

Sociology of markets, class, and poverty. Microeconomics, Harding University (2022).

Social work careers and education: Lessons for BSW graduates. Community Practice, Harding University (2021).

How to influence social and public policy. Social Welfare Policies and Services II, Harding University (2020).

Advising child welfare administrators. Transdisciplinary Problem Solving: Child Maltreatment Prevention, Washington University in St. Louis (2020).

Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (2025). Social inclusion in transition: A crossroads of conceptualization, measurement, and policy in global contexts. International Public Policy Association.

Brown, C. T. (2026, Oct.). From welfare reform to ecowelfare reform: Designing equitable climate-era social protection. Council on Social Work Education Annual Meeting.

Brown, C. T. (2026, Sep.). Inequality and the political economy of climate mitigation and adaptation. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Brown, C. T. (2026, Aug.). From welfare reform to ecowelfare reform: The (neo)liberal regime under climate pressure. Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) Annual Conference.

Brown, C. T. (2026, June). The divided ecowelfare state: A network analysis of the political economy of public-private U.S. disaster relief. The New Political Economy of Welfare Systems in Times of Climate Change, Sciences Po.

Brown, C. T. (2026, June). Do welfare states adapt? Discursive convergence and hazard selectivity in national adaptation plans. Sustainable Social Policy Workshop, London School of Economics.

Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Climate risk and the welfare state: Climate-adaptive welfare and ecowelfare and U.S. welfare enrollment after natural hazards. Society for Social Work Research.

Gounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Climate policy (in)equity: Private incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act for investments in marginalized communities. Society for Social Work Research.

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Welfare-to-work requirements and sanction-lifted policies following the COVID-19 pandemic through an equity lens. Society for Social Work Research.

Brown, C. T. (2025, Nov.). Climate risk and the welfare state: Enrollment moderation after natural hazards. Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM).

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2025, Nov.). Welfare-to-work requirements and sanction-lifted policies following COVID-19 through an equity lens. APPAM.

Brown, C. T. (2025, Oct.). When helping hurts: Growth, adaptation, and a critique of ecowelfare. Extreme Weather Events, Climate Adaptation and Eco-social Policies Colloquium, Sustainable Welfare & Eco-social Policy Network.

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2025, Oct.). Leveraging Cal-OAR data insights to improve employment and earnings for Welfare-to-Work participants with an equity lens. County Welfare Directors Association of California Annual Conference.

Brown, C. T. (2025, June). Climate risk and the welfare state. Sustainable Social Policy Workshop, London School of Economics.

Brown, C. T. (2025, June). Climate risk and the welfare state. Social Ecological Transitions Workshop, Sciences Po.

Perone, A., Brown, C. T., Fletcher, K., & Urrutia, L. (2025, June). The five C’s of climate change and caregiving. Transforming Care Conference.

Brown, C. T., Nepomnyaschy, L., & Patel, A. S. (2024, Nov.). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable? Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs. APPAM.

Chang, Y. L., Keh, M., & Brown, C. T. (2024, Nov.). Racial disparities in welfare sanctions and employment outcomes across California counties through the COVID-19 pandemic. APPAM.

Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Gassman-Pines, A., Nikolova, K., Rothwell, D., Fox-Dichter, S., & Brown, C. T. (2024, Nov.). Did TANF policy changes during COVID-19 matter? APPAM.

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024, Oct.). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change. Global Welfare Regime Conference, National Taiwan University.

Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Gassman-Pines, A., Nikolova, K., Rothwell, D., Fox-Dichter, S., & Brown, C. T. (2024, May). Did TANF policy changes during COVID-19 matter? Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency.

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2024, Jan.). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to COVID-19 in California. Society for Social Work Research.

Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2023, Dec.). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change. University of Jyväskylä.

Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2023, Nov.). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to COVID-19 in California. APPAM.

Davidson, T., Ferreira, R., Leahy, C., Rathbun, H., Lyttle, M., Brown, C. T., & Buttell, F. (2026, Jan.). Understanding barriers to equitable disaster recovery: A concept mapping study. Society for Social Work Research.

Brown, C. T., Nepomnyaschy, L., & Patel, A. S. (2025, Jan.). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable? Society for Social Work Research.

Brown, C. T. (2023, May). Sustainable social inclusion through eco-social policy. Sustainability Science Days, University of Helsinki.

Brown, C. T. (2023, May). Natural hazards as temporal opportunities for policy change. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Environmental Justice and Time, University of Stirling.

Brown, C. T. (2023, April). Social work and the U.S. eco-social safety net. Virtual Environmental Justice and Social Work Conference, Adelphi University.

Brown, C. T. (2023, Jan.). Understanding American welfare state retrenchment through the lens of public opinion toward welfare spending. Society for Social Work Research.

Brown, C. T., Huff, J. L., & Helpenstill, K. (2021). “I wasn’t wantin’ to go in the streets”: A case study of trauma and identity in chronic homelessness. International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry.

Brown, C. T. (2020). Does automatic voter registration increase voter turnout? Research Without Walls, Washington University in St. Louis.

Brown, C. T. (2020). How healthy is our democracy and does it really matter? Research Without Walls, Washington University in St. Louis.

Panel Discussant. Social Protection for Low-Income Populations in East Asia. APPAM (2024).

Neimanas, N., Brown, C. T., Vidal, C. G., & Forbes, R. (2026, Jan.). Advocacy in a policy void: Climate and environmental justice in a deregulated policy environment. Society for Social Work Research (roundtable).

Brown, C. T., Martin, J., Pevitz, A., & Shapiro, R. (2021). Understanding students’ voting behaviors. Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting (workshop).

Brown, C. T., Martin, J., Pevitz, A., & Shapiro, R. (2021). Assessing experiences of public safety as a catalyst for community engagement. Assessment Institute, IUPUI (workshop).

Pevitz, A., Brown, C. T., Martin, J., & Shapiro, R. (2021). Measuring equity: An inside look at creating an instrument. Assessment Institute, IUPUI (workshop).

Shapiro, R., & Brown, C. T. (2021). Not just for voters: Including ineligible voters in a civically engaged campus climate. Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting (workshop).

Shapiro, R., Brown, C. T., Martin, J., & Pevitz, A. (2021). Graduate student civic engagement: A case study in data, assessment, and evaluation. Assessment Institute, IUPUI (workshop).

Brown, C. T. (2022). Can young social workers make a difference? Student Advocacy Day & Social Work Day on the Hill, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.

Brown, C. T., Harris, J., Soto, J. M., Lozano, A., Jean-Louis, R., Cotlone, D., Wollen, S., & Edelman, M. (2021). Young social workers speak out on the future of democracy. Social Work Day on the Hill, CRISP.

Soto, M., & Brown, C. T. (2021). Can social work save democracy? Student Advocacy Day & Social Work Day on the Hill, CRISP.

McClendon, G., & Brown, C. T. (2020). Local leadership in turbulent times: Ferguson Mayor Ella Jones and St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell.

2025–present Founding Executive Director, The Ecosocial Center

2022–2023 Data Science Consultant, Social Science Data Laboratory (D-Lab), UC Berkeley

2021–2022 Senior Policy Analyst, CTC Technology & Energy (Supervisors: Joanne Hovis; Andrew Afflerbach)

2021–2022 Caregiver, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch

2020–present Founder & CEO, Brown Strategic Consulting

2020–2021 Program Analyst, Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families (Supervisor: Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson)

2017–2019 Minister, River City Ministry

2022–2023 Congressional Intern, Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee

2019–2020 Legislative Aide, Missouri State Senate and House

2019–2020 Racial Equity Fellow, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis

2019–2020 Graduate Policy Scholar, Clark-Fox Institute & Social Policy Institute

2019 Child Policy Fellow, Arkansas Governor’s Office

2019 Legislative Aide, Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services

Keaggy, D. T., & Schoenherr, N. (2020, Nov. 22). Three Washington University scholars were Rhodes finalists. The Source. https://source.wustl.edu/2020/11/three-washington-university-scholars-were-rhodes-finalists/

Poor, T. (2020, June 11). New student fellowships assess racial equity across organizations. Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School. https://brownschool.wustl.edu/News/Pages/New-Student-Fellowships-Assess-Racial-Equity-Across-Organizations.aspx

Schoenherr, N. (2021, June 2). Brown School works with Webster Groves to improve housing equity. The Source, Washington University in St. Louis. https://source.wustl.edu/2021/06/brown-school-works-with-webster-groves-to-improve-housing-equity/