Kemi Fuentes-George Ph.D

Kemi Fuentes-George, Ph.D., is a scholar of global environmental justice. His training is primarily as a political scientist, but his work draws from a variety of different disciplines, including sociology, and gender and feminist scholar ship. His book Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries (MIT Press, 2016) was the runner-up for the Sprout Award for Best Book in the ISA Environmental Studies section, and discusses how local perceptions of justice and history affect the implementation of global environmental agreements. He is Associate Professor of Political Science and former Director of International and Global Studies at Middlebury College