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Shangrila Joshi Wynn

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies , 323 Ho Science Center
p 315 2286740

Degree

 Ph.D. Environmental Science, Studies and Policy, Focal Department Geography, University of Oregon. (2011)

M.A. International Affairs, Communication and Development Studies Program, Center for International Studies, Ohio University. (2004)

B.Sc. Environmental Sciences, St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu University. (2001)

Interests

 I am an interdisciplinary scholar of Environmental Studies with disciplinary grounding in critical human geography. I emphasize postcolonial, feminist, critical race, Marxist, and intersectional perspectives in my teaching and scholarship.

Research interests: Social/political dimensions of climate change, conservation and development challenges in South Asia; anti-toxics movements in the US.

Teaching interests: Environment and Development, Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, Global Environmental Politics, Qualitative Research Methods.

Specialities

 North-South Climate Politics, Political Ecology, Critical Development Studies, Environmental Justice

Publications

 In Preparation - World Turning: Race, Class, Gender and Global Climate Change / An Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Climate Change. With Co-Editors Medani Prasad Bhandari, Phoebe Godfrey, and Rachel Hallum-Montes

Forthcoming (November, 2013) - India’s Representation of North-South Climate Politics. In Global Environmental Politics, 13 (4)

Forthcoming - North-South Relations: Colonialism, Empire and International Order. In Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, edited by Paul Harris

2002 - Prioritizing Environmental Projects for Foreign Aid in Nepal. Report prepared for the Ministry of Population and Environment, Nepal

Dissertation

 Justice, Development and India’s Climate Politics: A Postcolonial Political Ecology of the Atmospheric Commons

Click here to access a PDF version of the dissertation

Teaching Experience

 Global Environmental Justice (Spring 2013)

Sustainability and Natural Resources (Spring 2013)

International Environmental Policy (Spring 2013)

Environmental Justice

People and Environment

Climate Justice

Introduction to Environmental Studies from a Social Science Perspective

Global Environmental Change

Environmental Management

Distinctions

 Catalyzing Research on Geographies of Broadening Participation, Association of American Geographers / National Science Foundation (2012-13)

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012)

Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Leadership Initiative Award, Tokyo Foundation / University of Oregon (2011)

Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship, University Of Oregon (2009-2010)

Graduate Student Representative (Invited), Presidential Transition Team, University of Oregon (2009-2010)

Delegation Member (And Initiator of the AAG’s Application to be an Observer Organization with the UNFCCC), Association of American Geographers (AAG), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP-15), Copenhagen (2009)

Honorable Mention, Public Impact Fellowship, University of Oregon (2009)

Oregon University System SYLFF Graduate Fellowship for International Research, Tokyo Foundation (2008-2009)

Board Membership

 Enhancing Diversity Standing Committee, Association of American Geographers (2011-14)

Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2011-13)

Nominations Committee (elected), Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2012-2013)

Alliance of Graduate Students for Diversity, University of Oregon (2010-2011)

Graduate School Advisory Board, University of Oregon (2008-2010)

Editorial Board, The Ecotone (quarterly journal of the Environmental Studies Program), University of Oregon (2004-2006)

Editorial Board, The Pioneer (annual publication), St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu (1996-2000)

Other

Invited Talks

India’s Climate Politics through an Environmental Justice Lens, Environmental Studies Brown Bag Seminar, Colgate University (September 21, 2012)

Justice, Development and India’s Climate Politics: A Postcolonial Political Ecology of the Atmospheric Commons, Global Studies Seminar, Denison University (February 20, 2012)

India, Climate Policy and Environmental Justice, UO Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics (April 20, 2010)

Conferences Co-Organized

Inaugural Interdisciplinary University of Oregon Graduate Student Research Forum ‘Crossing Borders,’ Eugene (2010)

Thirteenth Annual Environmental Joint Campus Conference ‘Crossing Boundaries,’ Eugene (2010)

Paper Presentations

Critical Geopolitics, Postcolonialism and Climate Politics. ‘New Directions in Human Geographical Theory’ Session, Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York (2012)

Viewing Global Climate Politics through a Lens of Environmental Justice. ‘Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change’ Session, Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle (2011)

Environmental Justice: North South Geographical Imaginaries and Environmental Space, ‘New Directions in Environmental Justice’ Session, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Portland (2010)

Applying Environmental Justice to Climate Policy Using India’s Participation as a Case Study, ‘Many Shades of Climate Change’ Session, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Portland (2010)

India, Climate Geopolitics and Environmental Justice. Thirteenth Annual Joint Campus Conference ‘Crossing Boundaries,’ Eugene (2010)

Climate and Justice: Perspectives from India. Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas (2009)

Contested Notions of Fairness, Equity and Justice: Climate Change as an Arena for North South Environmental Politics. Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston (2008)

Invited Panelist

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change, Inaugural Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Forum ‘Crossing Borders,’ Eugene (2010)

Climate Justice, Fifteenth Annual Grassroots Environmental Justice Conference, Coalition Against Environmental Racism, Eugene (2010)

Climate Justice, PowerShift West ’09, Eugene (2009)

Poster

Global Discourses, Local Impacts: Conservation and Development Policies of the Terai Arc Landscape Project and their Impacts on Rural Communities in the Nepali Terai, Seventh Annual Environmental Joint Campus Conference, Corvallis (2005)

Professional Memberships

2011-present   International Studies Association

2009-present   Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences

2005-present   Association of American Geographers

2004-present   Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society

Other

Reporter, Environment, Science and Technology beat, The Himalayan Times (Kathmandu based daily newspaper), Asia-Pacific Communications Associates, Kathmandu, Nepal (2001-2002)

Travel

 Born and raised in Lalitpur, Nepal

Lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh (four years) and Kabul, Afghanistan (one year) as a young child

Conducted fieldwork (interviews, focus groups and participant observation) in Ghandruk, Nepal (2001), Delhi, India (2008-09), Copenhagen, Denmark (2009), and San Juan, Puerto Rico (2012) for research

Languages

Native: Nepali and Newa Bhaye; English, Hindi