Justin Farrell is a Professor and author at Yale University, School of the Environment

He studies how land and belief shape modern American life and its history. His writing crosses political and cultural divides.

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His work has won national awards and regularly appears in major media. He frequently presents work to policymakers, including the U.S. Senate, the White House, the Vatican, and the United Nations. His research has been published by Science, Princeton University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Sociological Review, Nature Climate Change, among others, and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. 

Justin is a first-generation college graduate and Wyoming native. With a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, he divides his time between Yale and the Mountain West, where he is Director of a research program on communities and landscapes.

*New book in progress. Expected 2026, W.W. Norton Press