Patrick is an environmental sociologist at the University of Washington. His research and teaching address questions at the intersection of structural inequality, development processes, and environmental change. His work engages scholarship in the fields of environmental sociology, environmental justice, climate justice, critical theories of race, energy transitions and technological displacement, science and technology studies, sociology of knowledge, and socio-ecological systems and has been published in outlets such as Global Environmental Change, Enviromental Research Letters, Environmental Justice, Nature Cities, Sociology of Development, Energy Research and Social Science, and Environmental Sociology, among others.