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
- Academic Literacy Curriculum Liaison
- Writing Program Faculty
- UC-AFT Continuing Faculty
- Division Humanities Division, Undergraduate Education
- Department
- Writing Program
- Rachel Carson College
- Affiliations Environmental Studies Department
- Phone 831-459-3644
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 333
- Office Hours Fall 2022: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30. Custom times as requested.
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- Rachel Carson Fac Serv, 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Courses WRIT 2: Breaking Science (Rhetoric & Inquiry); WRIT 1: Introduction to Composition; Rachel Carson College 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: The Environment and Us (previously, CRSN 80A/C/D); BME 185: Technical Writing for Biomolecular Engineers; Phys 182: Scientific Communication for Physicists (Win 2020); Writing Assistant mentoring/supervising; Core Course Instructional Assistant mentoring
Summary of Expertise
Ecology; agroecology and food systems; plant-insect interactions; entomology; plant population biology; matrix population models; political economy; writing in the physical and biological sciences; STEM diversity and representation; American Indian intellectual history and environmental activism; writing and learning
Research Interests
Ecological risks of genetically engineered organisms; population dynamics; agroecology and food systems; science and uncertainty
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Environmental Studies, UCSC
Honors, Awards and Grants
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Teaching Interests
Science writing; writing instruction for students of physical and biological sciences; environmental science; entomology; plant population biology; service learning and activism.
