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 and Chair
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Phone
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 208
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Sociology, Urban studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies
- Courses SOCY 105A Classical Sociological Theory; SOCY 177 Urban Sociology; SOCY 177E Eco-Metropolis; SOCY 260 Culture, Knowledge, Power; SOCY 201 The Making of Classical Theory
Research Interests
Urban sociology, geography, urban environmental studies, urban political ecology, disaster and crisis, sustainability studies, housing, media and cultural studies, social movements, social theory, and the social, cultural, and environmental history of New York City, Buenos Aires, and California.
Selected Publications
2017 The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age. Cornell University Press.
2014. Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. Oxford University Press. Co-authored with Kevin Fox Gotham.
2008. Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. Routledge.
