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 Emeritus
- Division Baskin School of Engineering
- Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Affiliations Academic Senate
- Phone 831-459-3773
- Fax 831-459-4829
- Website
- Office Location
- Engineering Building 2, Engineering 2, 361
- Engineering 2, Room 386
- Office Hours Spring 2022: MW 7:15-8:00pm and by appointment
- Mail Stop SOE3
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street, Mail Stop SOE 3
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Computer Science, Data Studies
Research Interests
- Data analytics and visualization
- Computational social science
- Technology for social good
- Data journalism
Biography, Education and Training
- Prof. Lodha is interested in data curation (accessing and identifying relevant and reliable data) and visualization of socio-economic data. He is co-authors of The Atlas of Global Inequality and The Atlas of California. He is interested in an teaching data analytics and visualization at both undergraduate and graduate level. He is interested in equity-oriented community-engaged collaborative research to empower society using software and technology. He mentors both undergraduate and graduate students interested in multidisciplinary e-research focusing on capacity building and nurtures them into co-authoring research monologues. He is interested in collaborating with students with shared interests at a wide range of universities internationally and remotely. He collaborates with research scholars and organizations with a focus on policy analysis and impactful research.
