Associate Professor
I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in Justice, Community and Leadership. My research and teaching interests straddle the interconnected spheres of sustainability and social justice, applying participatory and ethnographic methodologies. I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley (2015). I am a founding member of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, a world-wide network of researchers and practitioners working on sustainability transitions. Previously, I worked as a program officer at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India, coordinating multiple research projects and organizing environmental education programs.
ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
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About Manisha Anantharaman
I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in Justice, Community and Leadership. My research and teaching interests straddle the interconnected spheres of sustainability and social justice, applying participatory and ethnographic methodologies. I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley (2015). I am a founding member of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, a world-wide network of researchers and practitioners working on sustainability transitions. Previously, I worked as a program officer at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India, coordinating multiple research projects and organizing environmental education programs.
ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Justice, Community and Leadership | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Global and Regional Studies | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2017 - 2018 | Green public spaces and sustainable cities in South and Southeast Asia: Integrating needs and societal wellbeing |
| Swiss Network for International Studies | |
| $160,000 | |
| 2017 - 2018 | Provost's Faculty Research Grant |
| Saint Mary's College of California | |
| $9,900 |
Honors and Awards
- Contemplative Social Justice Scholars Program, Association for the Contemplative Mind in Higher Education 2017
- Early Career Scholar Award, Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), 2016
- Berkeley Connect Fellowship, 2014
- Best Graduate Student Paper, Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), 2014
Courses
- JCL/EES 130 Environmental Justice
- JCL 140 Justice in the Global Community
- JCL 129 Community Engagement in Education
- JCL 120 Theory and Inquiry in Justice Community and Leadership
- JCL 196 Senior Thesis
- JCL 163/GRS 130 Global Development and Social Justice
| 2015 | PhD, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley | |
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| 2008 | MSc, Biology, University of Oxford | |
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| 2007 | BSc, Biology, University of Madras | |
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