Maddy Kroot is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her Ph.D. in geography from Clark University.

Kroot's research examines the spatial and environmental politics of energy transitions, with a focus on the electricity grid. She explores how “green-on-green” conflict arises when the need for decarbonization comes into friction with mandates for greater public participation in energy governance and the protection of (especially rural) landscapes targeted for new energy infrastructure.

One of Kroot's research projects examines community opposition to new high-voltage transmission lines in northern New England, intended to increase imports of Quebecois hydroelectricity to Massachusetts to meet Massachusetts’s decarbonization targets. The project considers transmission both as a mechanism for grid decarbonization and a locus for community contestation over how decisions are made about the energy future – where, by whom, and via what logics. Building from this work on opposition to transmission projects, her second research project focuses on the role of grid operators in regional energy transitions and the emergence of grid activism as a strategy targeting regional grids as the objects of energy, environmental, and climate justice organizing.