Dear colleagues, The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment is pleased to congratulate Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, for being awarded a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards available to scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Andrew Carnegie Fellows receive support that allows them to focus on research and writing projects that address pressing issues. Jinnah was awarded $200,000 to fund her proposal, "Global Governance of Climate (Geo)Engineering," which will address the political challenges surrounding governance of emerging technologies designed to address climate change. Jinnah specializes in global environmental politics and international institutions. She is the author of *Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance* (MIT Press), which received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book in international environmental affairs. She is also co-editor of *New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene *(MIT Press 2017). As part of her fellowship, Jinnah will focus on global governance for the suite of emerging technologies known as climate engineering, or simply geoengineering. Without advocating for the actual use of climate engineering, Jinnah argues that near-term governance is needed to enable society to make informed determinations about any future use—or rejection—of climate engineering technologies for addressing climate change. The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is designed to support scholarship that brings fresh perspectives from the social sciences and humanities to the social, political, and economic problems facing the United States and the world today," said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. Jinnah joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in July 2016. She came to the campus from American University's School of International Service. She earned her Ph.D. in environmental science, policy, and management from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Jinnah is also a member of the Academic Working Group on the International Governance of Climate Engineering, a member of the Board of Advisors to the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment. An Andrew Carnegie Corporation press release can be found here <https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/andrew-carnegie-fellows-program-awards-research-fellowships-35-scholars-important-work-social-sciences-and-humanities/>. -- *Michael Thompson* *Managing DirectorForum for Climate Engineering Assessment * School of International Service, American University www.ceassessment.org o - 202 885 2459 <(202)%20885-2459> m- 202 556 3776 <(202)%20556-3776> Let's talk! Schedule a meeting or call here <https://calendly.com/michael-s-thompson>. <http://ceassessment.org> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
