Michael Cox is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. In his research he explores sources of resilience and vulnerability in human-environment interactions. He has conducted empirical fieldwork-based analyses of irrigation systems in the Southwest United States and Kenya. He is currently conducting a synthetic analysis of large-scale environmental governance, and is involved in developing a diagnostic approach to natural resource and environmental policy analysis. Before coming to Dartmouth, he worked under Lin Ostrom at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. His dissertation, under Ostrom’s direction, was on the Taos Valley acequias.