Faculty Profile
Michael Mikulewicz

Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Studies
222 Marshall Hall

mmikulew@esf.edu
315-470-6816

Education

• PhD in Human Geography, University of Manchester, England, 2018
• MSc in Environmental Studies, California State University, Fullerton, USA, 2012
• BA in Politics & International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008

Research interests

Climate justice, Environmental justice, Adaptation, Resilience & Vulnerability, International development, Climate finance, UNFCCC process, Urban sustainability, Public health, LGBTQ+ studies, Qualitative & Participatory methods, Community science

Critical theory including Political economy, Political ecology, Postcolonial theory, (Eco-)Feminist theory, Queer theory, Intersectionality

Courses

EST 135: Introduction to Climate Justice

EST 366: Environmental Ethics

EST 616: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice

EST 496/696: Critical Climate Studies

Publications

• 2023. Johnson, L., Mikulewicz, M., Bigger, P., Chakraborty, R., Cunniff, A., Griffin, P.J., Guermond, V., Lambrou, N., Mills-Novoa, M., Neimark, B., Nelson, S., Rampini, C., Sherpa, P., & Simon, G. Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation, Global Environmental Change 83: 1-7. IF: 8.9
• 2023. Ryder, S. & Mikulewicz, M. 2023. “Building a Critical, Place-Based Approach to Climate Displacement: A Future Agenda for Research, Planning, and Practice” in Walker, T., McGaughey, J., Machnik-Kekesi, G. and Victoria Kelly (Eds.). Environmental Migration in the Face of Emerging Risks, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 155-177.
• Mikulewicz, M., Sultana, F., Caretta, M. & Crawford, N., 2023. Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in scholarship and practice. Environmental Politics.
• Mikulewicz, M., 2020. The Discursive Politics of Adaptation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(6): 1807-30.
• Mikulewicz, M., 2020. Disintegrating labor relations and depoliticized adaptation to climate change in rural Sa~o Tome´ and Pri´ncipe. Area. Special Issue: Geographies of Labour in a Changing Climate. 2020;00: 1-9.
• Ingle, H. & Mikulewicz, M., 2020. Mental Health & Climate Change. The Lancet Planetary Health. 4: e128-130.
• Mattar, S., Mikulewicz, M., and McCauley, D., 2020. Climate justice in the Arctic: A critical and interdisciplinary climate research agenda, in: Heininen, L., Exner-Pirot, H. and J. Barnes (Eds.), 2020, Arctic Yearbook 2020, Arctic Portal: Akureyri, Iceland, 260-285.
• Mikulewicz, M., 2019. Thwarting Adaptation's Potential? A Critique of Resilience and Climate-resilient Development. Geoforum 104: 267-282.
• Mikulewicz, M., & Taylor, M., 2019. Getting the Resilience Right: Climate Change and Development Policy in the ‘African Age.' New Political Economy 25 (4): 626-641.
• Jafry, T., Mikulewicz, M., & Helwig, K., 2019. Introduction: Justice in the Era of Climate Change, in: Jafry, T., Helwig, K., Mikulewicz, M. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice. Routledge: New York, 1-9.
• Mikulewicz, M., 2018. Politicizing Vulnerability and Adaptation: On the Need to Democratize Local Responses to Climate Impacts in Developing Countries. Climate and Development. 10, 18–34.