Michael Lerner is a Dow Sustainability Fellow and Ph.D. student in the Political Science department and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on topics in comparative environmental politics, with a broad interest in questions related to adaptation to environmental change, the responsiveness of government, and disaster recovery and prevention.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.