Emily is an environmental and resource sociologist specializing in sociological theory, climate change, philosophy, and political economy. Her research has spanned a wide range of environmental problems, including food insecurity and fisheries management. Her dissertation, An Existential Social Theory of Climate and Environmental Change, develops a framework to examine the existential meaning of contemporary social institutions that generate political and economic instability concomitant with climate and environmental change, through processes such as racialization, gender stratification, securitization, and nationalization. Find Emily’s publications here.

