history of science + the environment. assistant professor, columbia climate school. 5'2.99"
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new essay by me out in critical inquiry this month: "gas guzzling gaia" doi.org/10.1086/712129 had this baby in the works for a while now -- happy to see it out in the wild!
Winter 2021 is out now! Enjoy new work by Orit Bashkin, W. J. T. Mitchell, Sabine Arnaud, Peter Goodrich, Jonathan Kramnick, Leah Aronowsky, Julia Nordblad, and Bina Gogineni and Kyle Nichols.
Read the Winter issue: journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci…
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The West spent three decades building the political, institutional, and financial architecture and popular demand for an energy transition. Yet it is China that is now reaping the material benefits, writes @leaharonowsky. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15…
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As the West retreats from target-based climate goals, China has cornered the market to become the world’s first clean energy superpower. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15…
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The End of Climate Politics: @leaharonowsky looks at how Western elites failed to come up with a plan to deal with civilization’s greatest threat.
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Climate politics can no longer focus only on preventing future catastrophes. It must now also encompass struggles over how society manages climate impacts already reshaping economic and social life, writes @columbiaclimate's @leaharonowsky. Via @guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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"In the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before." Important moment. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opini…
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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear grist.org/language/trump-adm…
I talked to @grist about the disappearing federal climate data
On the erasure of the National Climate Assessment website and other related data: “This kind of wholesale suppression of an entire field of federally sponsored research, to my knowledge, is historically unprecedented." -@leaharonowsky
grist.org/language/trump-adm…
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Columbia's University Senate just published its report on campus protests, coming in at 335 pages and compiling an overview of the events at Columbia throughout 2023 and 2024.
Read it here: senate.columbia.edu/sites/de…
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🚨I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with Stanford University Press is out, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, @GaraviniG, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, @Adebayo_D_A, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright
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What are the ways forward for climate action under Trump?
National policy is foreclosed. But a lot can happen at the state and local level. @aldatweets and I argue that we must embrace green economic populism, tackling the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis together 🧵
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If you’re going to get anything worthwhile done intellectually you have to be able to let your house occasionally descend into complete chaos without thinking it means anything about you as a person. This is one thing I’ve learned…… as a woman…..
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Today at 6PM ET! RSVP: tinyurl.com/5n8yyfur
Join us in one week to consider how the geological rejection of the Anthropocene affects how humanities and social science scholars think about the relations between the social and the planetary. RSVP: tinyurl.com/5n8yyfur
ALT A Post-Mortem for the Anthropocene Oct 16 at 6pm et. Hybrid event Speakers: Leah Aronowsky, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Sophia Roosth
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Despite internal protest, the Subcommission on Quarternary Stratigraphy denied the existence of an Anthropocene epoch as a formal unit of time. How does this geological rejection affect the humanities and social sciences? Join us to find out: tinyurl.com/5n8yyfur
ALT A Post-Mortem for the Anthropocene October 16 at 6PM. Hybrid Event. Speakers: Leah Aronowsky, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Sophia Roosth
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Wrote about the climate-induced insurance crisis that Hurricane Helene crashed into, and alternatives to leaving so much of how we plan for and recover from disasters up to the private sector
ft. @RebsFE @cplusci Zac Taylor & Moira Birss newrepublic.com/article/1866…
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Ready for the U.S. History Workshop? Fall 2024 Series features #StanfordHistorians Professors Caroline Winterer, Jonathan Gienapp @TheGNapp, PhD candidate @ClementsAustinJ, and @columbiaclimate's Prof. Leah Aronowsky @leaharonowsky More: history.stanford.edu/events/… @StanfordLawHist
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NEW: In @WIREs_Reviews today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD.
📰Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv
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"There's been a real shift in the rhetoric in the past few years...from denying the reality of climate change to...problematizing some of the major solutions that are on the table," says @columbiaclimate professor @leaharonowsky. Via @ABC. abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-…
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RIP Jane McAlevey, the brilliant and indefatigable labor organizer and writer and regular contributor to Jacobin. You can read her contributions to the magazine here: jacobin.com/author/jane-mcal…
