Faculty Profiles

Journal articles
Joni Seager. "Death By Degrees: Taking a Feminist Hard Look at the 2 Degrees Climate Policy," Kvinder, Kon & Forskning (Denmark) -- Women, Gender & Research, vol. 18, no. 3 - 4, 11 - 22, 2009.

Seager, Joni. "Gender and water: good rhetoric but it doesn't 'count'," Geoforum, vol. 40, 2009.

Seager, Joni. "Gender and Disasters," Social Policy, vol. 36, no. 2, 2006.

Seager, Joni, O'Brien, Karen, Barnett, Jon, Matthew, Richard. "Hurricane Katrina Reveals Challenges to Human Security," AVISO: Information Bulletin on Global Environmental Change and Human Security, vol. 14, 2005.

Seager, Joni. "Pepperoni or broccoli? On the cutting wedge of feminist environmentalism," Gender Place & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2003.

Seager, Joni. "Rachel Carson died of breast cancer: Feminist environmentalism comes of age," SIGNS, vol. 28, no. 3, 2003.

Books
Seager, Joni, Kenza Robinson, Charlotte van der Schaaf, Sascha Gabizon. Gender-Disaggregated Global Data on Water & Sanitation, United Nations/ DESA, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni. The State of Women in the World Atlas (4th Ed), Penguin, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni. The state of gender-disaggregated data in water and sanitation: Overview and assessment of major sources, United Nations, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni, Hartmann, Betsy. Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning, United Nations, New York, 2005.

Seager, Joni, Nelson, Lise. The Companion to Feminist Geography, Blackwell, London & New York, 2005.

Seager, Joni, Domosh, Mona. Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World, Guilford Press, New York, 2001.

Seager, Joni. Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis, Earthscan/ Routledge, London/ New York, 1993.

Book chapters
Seager, Joni. "Gender, Poverty & the Environment," in GEO Yearbook 2004/05: An Overview of Our Changing Environment, United Nations/ UNEP, New York & Nairobi, 2005

Professional Memberships:
Association of American Geographers
American Association of University Women

Honors and Awards:
2009, Co-PI, National Science Foundation (#6743000), S-STEM Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, $600,000, Hunter College, 2009 - 2011

2007, Co-PI. Canadian International Development Agency, Canada Corps University Partnership Program. "Sustaining Water in Mongolia: A Human Security Approach," partnering with the National University of Mongolia. $190,000. 2006 - 2007.

2006, Companion to Feminist Geography. Honoree Selection for Best Publication, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group of the AAG, 2006.

2005, Media Achievement Award," Association of American Geographers, 2005.

2003, University Scholar, University of Vermont.

2001, Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, "Gender & The Environment" program at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

Scholarly Work in Progress:
"Changing the Climate" .
article on gender and climate change for ARROWs for Change (Bulletin of the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women).

Gender and Water in Mongolia.
Journal Article

Making an AIDS Epidemic.
Book in progress

Other Activities:
Consultant, UN Division of Economic & Social Affairs, Expert Group on Gender & Disaggregated Water/ Sanitation Data, 2008 - ongoing.

Elected Member, Scientific Steering Committee for Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project (GECHS) of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, 2005 - ongoing.

Invited keynote address, "Gender and Climate Change" at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, at the "Gendering Climate and Sustainability" conference, organized by the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Research Council, March 13 - 14 2009

Invited participant, National Science Foundation, "Science of Broadening Participation" Initiative, 2008 - 2009.

Invited presentation/ panel moderator, "Gender & climate change", Third World Conference on Climate Change, Geneva

Member, Editorial Board, Geoforum

Organized an invited panel on the "Global state of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation" at the 5th World Water Forum, organized by the World Water Council and the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Istanbul, Turkey, March 16 - 22 2009.

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