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.
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- Title
- Lecturer
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Rachel Carson College
- Music Department
- Phone 000-000-0000
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 000
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Summary of Expertise
- PhD in Musicology (Columbia University)
- MA in History of Science (UC Berkeley)
- MA in Harpsichord Performance Practice (UC Santa Cruz)
- BA in Math, Music, & History (UC Santa Cruz)
Classes Taught:
Music 101B, History of Western Art Music: Baroque, Classical, Romantic (UCSC)
Rachel Carson College Core Course: "Environment and Society" (UCSC)
Music Humanities/"Masterpieces of Western Music" (Columbia University)
Research Interests
I am currently writing a book charting how the newly minted concept of musical "harmony" was leveraged in public debates on colonization, religion, and gender in Britain circa 1800 (provisionally titled Empire of Harmony: Modulation, Science, and Power in Georgian England).
I also teach an environmentally themed class at Rachel Carson College. I'm particularly interested in the political and legal mechanisms that underpin environmentalist progress and obstructionism in California.
