Graduate Workshop in Environmental Politics and Governance selects Nefratiri Weeks to present at May conference

Ph.D. candidate Nefratiri Weeks has been selected to present her dissertation research on “Moon Mining: Imperialism’s Next Frontier or Democratic Cooperation?” at the prestigious Graduate Workshop in Environmental Politics and Governance that will be held in May at the Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington, Seattle.

The Audit: CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industry

There are more than 600 prison agricultural programs currently in the United States, but very little data looking at the how, what, and maybe most importantly, why of these programs. Colorado State University’s Prison Agriculture Lab is looking to change that. Co-directors Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault talk about the lab’s recently published landmark dataset analyzing the different types of current prison agricultural programs, as well as the underlying drivers behind them.

Urban Climate publishes research by Azmal Hossan’s SESNYC cohort

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan and his National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Graduate Pursuit program cohort have published their first manuscript. Urban Climate published “Typologies of multiple vulnerabilities and climate gentrification across the East Coast of the United States.” The cohort is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and includes seven Ph.D. students from seven […]

Alumni partner on research published by Nature Climate Change

Adam Mayer (Ph.D., ’17) and Keith Smith (Ph.D. ‘20) published “Multidimensional partisanship shapes climate policy support and behaviours” in Nature Climate Change. Adam is a post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Global Change at Earth Observations at MSU. Keith is a Senior Researcher in the International Political Economy/International Environmental Politics group at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at […]

PLOS Global Public Health publishes Azmal Hossan & cohort’s COP27 article

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan’s invited commentary paper on COP27, climate justice, and planetary health has been published in PLOS Global Public Health. In “Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health: Diagnosis and demands from next generation leaders for COP27 and beyond,” Hossan and his co-authors critically examine the ongoing global climate change negotiation in the form […]

Carrie Chennault and Joshua Sbicca’s prison agriculture research published by Agriculture and Human Values

Carrie Chennault (Anthropology and Geography) and Joshua Sbicca (Sociology) have published “Prison agriculture in the United States: racial capitalism and the disciplinary matrix of exploitation and rehabilitation” in Agriculture and Human Values. This is the first article to report on research undertaken in The Prison Agriculture Lab. The Lab has also created a satellite image […]