Jeff Feng, Northwestern University
Project Title: Toward Queer Climate Justice
Jeff Feng is a STRONG Manoomin Collective Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. Their research and teaching focus on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. They examine the contributions of queer, trans, and Two-Spirit activists to fighting climate injustices and analyze how power, privilege, and marginalization shape climate justice policies and movements. As a scholar-activist, they advance climate justice by researching alongside organizers, such as those in the Central Coast Climate Justice Network, and by teaching courses that pair students with environmental justice partners to complete collaborative projects. They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume. They received their M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, with a doctoral emphasis in feminist studies, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and their A.B. in environmental sciences and policy from Duke University.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for the advancement of early career political science scholars from historically underrepresented backgrounds and minoritized groups, or those whose research aims to broaden participation in political science and focuses on issues affecting underrepresented racial and ethnic groups or issues of tribal sovereignty and governance. In July 2023, APSA awarded six projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $12,000.
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