Professor Colgan is on sabbatical leave until July 1, 2025.

Jeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. His research focuses on international order, especially in relation to energy and the environment.

His latest book, "Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order," was published in September 2021 by Oxford University Press. He was awarded the 2021 Best Book Prize (Energy Policy, Non-Fiction) from the American Energy Society and two APSA book awards. His previous book, "Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War," was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He has published work in International Organization, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, International Security and elsewhere.

Colgan previously taught at the School of International Service of American University from 2010 to 2014 and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 2012-13.  He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University and was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at U.C. Berkeley, where he earned a master’s in public policy.  Colgan has worked with the World Bank, McKinsey & Company and The Brattle Group.