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
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Education Department
- Phone 831-459-4933
- Fax 831-459-4618
- Website
- Office Location
- McHenry Library, McHenry Library #3163
- Office Hours By appointment; please email me.
- Mail Stop Education Department
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Teacher Education
Summary of Expertise
Teachers, teaching, and teacher education (with emphases on professional knowledge and identity); English education; critical pedagogy; sociolinguistics; philosophical perspectives on education; school reform; and qualitative research methods.
Biography, Education and Training
Brad Olsen is Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching focus on teachers, teaching, and teacher education (with emphases on professional knowledge and identity); English education; critical pedagogy; sociolinguistics; philosophical perspectives on education; school reform; and qualitative research methods. Dr. Olsen's most recent book is Teaching for Success: Developing your Teacher Identity in Today's Classroom (2010, Paradigm Publishers). He is also series editor for The Teacher’s Toolkit books. He is a recipient of the 2007 UCSC Excellence in Teaching award.
Before arriving at UCSC, Dr. Olsen was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Prior to this, Brad worked as a high school English teacher in Maine, Massachusetts, and South America, and a school administrator and teacher educator in California. He earned his B.A. in philosophy and English from Bowdoin College in 1989, and his M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1993.
