Jay Fiskio

  • Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies

Education

  • BA/MDiv, Earlham College
  • MA, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
  • PhD, Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy; University of Oregon

  • ENVS 201 Nature, Culture, & Interpretation
  • ENVS 219 Climate Change: Ethics, Equity, Narratives
  • ENVS 302 American Agricultures
  • ENVS 304 Environmental Justice Literature

  • Ecocriticism
  • Agrarianism and Food Justice
  • Climate Change, Cultural Studies, and Social Movements
  • Environmental Justice

Fall 2024

Introduction to Environmental Humanities — ENVS 201
Black Ecologies and Environmental Justice — ENVS 209
Black Ecologies & ENVS Justice — ENVS 209OC

Spring 2025

Introduction to Environmental Humanities — ENVS 201
American Agricultures — CAST 302
American Agricultures — ENVS 302
The Environmental Justice Methodologies — ENVS 414

News

Examining the Connection Between Climate Change and Environmental Justice

April 28, 2021

In her recently published book Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice (Cambridge University Press), Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies Jay Fiskio places climate change within the long histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and resistance, and examines the connections between climate disruption and and a system of imperialism and capitalism.