Please join us for our next Climate School Signature Speaker Series featuring:

Professor Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.,

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department, Research Co-Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration, Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration and Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Topic: Confronting Climate Coloniality: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Breakdown

4:00PM-5:00PM Program
5:00PM-6:00pm Reception

For virtual attendance please Register Here

Dr. Farhana Sultana is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, where she is also a Research Director (Environment) Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC) and affiliated with a number of departments and programs. Dr. Sultana is an internationally recognized and award-winning interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, educator, and author whose work spans fields of political ecology, water governance, climate change, post‐colonial development, social and environmental justice, decolonizing knowledge, and transforming systems.

Her vast body of research and public scholarship draw from her experiences of having lived and worked on three continents as well as from her backgrounds in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience. Prior to joining Syracuse, she taught at King’s College London and worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Author of over a hundred publications, her books include “Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice” (2024), “Water Politics: Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water” (2020), “Eating, Drinking: Surviving” (2016), and “The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles” (2012). Dr Sultana’s work has been highlighted in Nature, New York Times, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Guardian, Al Jazeera, DW news, and many other outlets.

Dr. Sultana graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University (in Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and obtained her Masters and PhD (in Geography) from the University of Minnesota, where she was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She was awarded the Glenda Laws Award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) for “outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues” in 2019. In 2023, she was the selected as an Elevate the Discipline Fellow of the AAG.