Margot Jeanne Cohen

PhD Student

Margot Jeanne (she/her) is a PhD student in the division of Society & Environment. She is a member of both the Climate Futures Lab and the Disabled Ecologies Lab. Her research is rooted in critical climate studies, feminist political ecology, feminist STS, and decolonial geographies in the Andean highlands of Ecuador and in Western Massachusetts. Her dissertation project engages anti-colonial and participatory methodologies to examine the coalitional politics of human-environment relations and the ways in which these political spaces reproduce, contest, or transform dominant discourses of climate change adaptation. Prior to starting her doctoral program, she worked in the nonprofit sector on issues of gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and climate justice. Margot Jeanne holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University and is a former Fulbright scholar.

Education

Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Brown University (2018)

Research Interests / Specializations:

critical climate studies; feminist political ecology; feminist STS; decolonial geographies; anti-colonial methodologies; participatory research; relational organizing; critical pedagogy

Selected Publications

Bornstein, M., Young, Y.Y., Pizzarossa, L.B., Cohen, M.J., & Maina, J. (2023). Documenting activism and advocacy around medication abortion in Central, East, and West Africa. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 27(1), 84-94.

Mariscal, M., Andrade, C., Lopez, P., Cohen, M.J., Dietze, E. (2021). Red de restauración naturaleza-cultura: Un proyecto piloto en Ecuador. In Sarmiento, F.O and Sarmiento, E.V. (Eds.), Flancos andinos. Paleoecología, biogeografía crítica y ecología política en los climas cambiantes de los bosques neotropicales de montaña (pp. 143-147). Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas.

Cohen, M.J., Mariscal, A., & Mariscal, C. (2021, October 4-25). Fundación Cambugán: Mushuk Tukuy Agroecolocial Network in Ecuador [Panel presentation]. Nearly Carbon Neutral Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

Cohen, M.J. (2020). Review of the book Vernacular sovereignties: Indigenous women challenging world politics, by M. Picq. E-International Relations.

Cohen, M.J. & Thomas, H.. (April 2019). Redes de Resistencia: A comparative analysis of gender-based violence experienced by women in Ecuador and lessons for transnational feminist legal theory [Panel presentation]. 2018-19 Western Hemisphere Fulbright Conference, Lima, Peru.

Cohen, M.J. (March 2018). The normalization of gender-based murder and the patriarchal state: A feminist case study of institutional responses to femicide in Chile from 2010-2017 [Panel presentation]. 2018 New England Political Science Association Conference, Portsmouth, NH.

Honors and Awards

ACES Chancellor’s Public Fellow, 2023

Research Fellow, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, 2018-19

New England Political Science Association, Undergraduate Thesis Selection, 2018

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Undergraduate Research Award, Brown University, 2018

Enid-Wilson Undergraduate Fellowship Award, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, 2017-18

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Undergraduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2017-18

International Relations Travel and Research Award, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 2017-18

Undergraduate Research and Teaching Award, Brown University, 2017

Recent Teaching:

Fall 2023 ESPM 176: Climate Justice (GSI)

Fall 2023 LS162AC: Restorative Justice (ACES Chancellor’s Public Fellow)

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