Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Title
- Professor
- Director of Legal Studies
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Politics Department
- Affiliations Legal Studies
- Phone 831-459-2024
- Website
- Office Location
- Merrill College Academic Building, 154
- Office Hours On leave 2023-2024
- Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St. Santa Cruz, CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Law and Policy, International and Global Affairs
- Courses LGST 10 Introduction to Legal Studies, POLI/LGST 160B International Law, POLI/LGST 175 Human Rights, LGST 196 Senior Capstone: The Rule of Law, POLI 202 Fundamentals of Political Research: Research Design and Qualitative Methods
Biography, Education and Training
Mark Fathi Massoud is professor of politics and director of legal studies at UC Santa Cruz, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Visit people.ucsc.edu/mmassoud for bio, CV, and publications.
