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 of Environmental Studies
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Environmental Studies Department
- Social Sciences Division
- Affiliations Politics Department
- Phone 831-459-3263
- Fax 831-459-4015
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 429
- Office Hours Currently on leave of absence
- Mail Stop Environmental Studies
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Courses ENVS 140, National Environmental Policy; ENVS 196B, Methods in Environmental Policy Analysis; ENVS 100, Ecology and Society; ENVS 240, Policy and Conservation; ENVS 146, Water Quality, Policy and Management
Summary of Expertise
Environmental policy, especially land use in California, water quality regulation, greening of industry.
Research Interests
Environmental politics and policy, with a focus on the U.S.; land preservation, water quality regulation and management, industrial ecology, policy analysis.
Biography, Education and Training
B.S. Fermentation Science (emphasis on enology), University of California, Davis, 1984.
M.A. Public Policy, The Claremont Graduate University, 1988.
PhD. Political Science, The Claremont Graduate University, 1992.
Honors, Awards and Grants
Olga T. Griswold Professor of Environmental Studies, 2007-2017
Golden Apple Teaching Award, Social Sciences Division, 2008
Co-Chair, Pepper-Giberson Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies, 1996-2002
Excellence in Teaching, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996
Selected Publications
Carlisle, L, de Wit, MM, DeLonge, MS, Calo, A, Getz, C, Ory, J, Munden-Dixon, K, Galt, R, Melone, B, Knox, R, Iles, A and Press, D. 2019. Securing the future of US agriculture: The case for investing in new entry sustainable farmers. Elem Sci Anth, 7: 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.356
American Environmental Policy: The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, Inc., 2015.
Brian M. Dowd, Daniel Press and Marc Los Huertos. "Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Policy: the Case of California's Central Coast." Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Volume 128, no. 3, November 2008, Pages 151-161.
“Industry, Environmental Policy and Environmental Outcomes.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 32, 2007.
Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California, Berkeley, CA: UC Press, 2002.
Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
Teaching Interests
National environmental policy; environmental policy analysis; water quality regulation and management, graduate environmental policy research design.
