Tim Wood

PhD New York University in Media, Culture, and Communication, 2018

Professor Wood researches promotional culture, corporate political advocacy, and theories of transparency and communicative power. He approaches much of his research and teaching through the lens of fossil fuels and environmental politics.

Media and the Environment
Promotional Culture
American Political Communication
Strategic Communication
Public Interest Media: Theory and Practice
Communication and Culture: History, Theory, and Methods

Wood, Tim. 2026. People For Oil: Mobilization in the US and Canadian Fossil Fuel Industries. Cambridge University Press. 

Hill, S., Nemes, N., Montgomery, A.W., Scanlan, S.J., McNally, B., Tubiello, F.N., Aronczyk, M., Wood, T., Smith, T. and Kaupa, C. 2025. Testing the greenwashing assessment framework. Ecology and Society, 30(2).

Wood, Tim. 2023. Learning from our mistakes: Corporate front groups and the limits of revelation in climate politics. Social Media + Society, 9(2).

Wood, Tim. 2021. Propaganda, obviously: How propaganda analysis fixates on the hidden and misses the conspicuous. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 2(2).

Wood, Tim and Melissa Aronczyk. 2020. Publicity and Transparency. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(11): 1531 1544.

Wood, Tim. 2018. “Energy’s citizens: The making of a Canadian petro-public.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(1): 75-92.

Wood, Tim. 2017. “The many voices of business: Framing the Keystone pipeline in U.S. and Canadian news.” Journalism. (Online First, print publication forthcoming)

Benson, Rodney and Tim Wood. 2015. “Who says what or nothing at all? Speakers, frames, and frameless quotes in unauthorized immigration news in the United States, Norway, and France.” American Behavioral Scientist, 59(7): 802-821.

Benson, Rodney and Tim Wood. 2015. “Mass Media.” Sociology. Oxford Bibliographies Online.