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 Physical & Biological Sciences Division
- Department
- Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
- Phone 831-459-1854
- Fax 831-459-3074
- Website
- Office Location
- Earth & Marine Sciences, c370
- Earth & Marine Science C370
- Mail Stop Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Earthquakes, Geophysics, Earth Sciences
- Courses ES 110C: The Dynamic Earth, ES 11: Earthquakes, ES 290J: Earthquake Physics, ES 112: Practical Geophysics, ES 266: Time Series Analysis
Summary of Expertise
Earthquakes, volcanoes, hydrology and earthquakes
Research Interests
Biography, Education and Training
B.A. Magna cum laude, Harvard University
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology