academic positions
Chatham University
2023- Program Director, Sustainability
2023- Assistant Professor of Sustainability
Wagner College
2022-2023 Interim Dept. Chair, Anthropology
2021-2023 Program Director, Environmental Studies
2020-2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Economy
2018-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Florida International University
2017-2018 Dissertation Fellow, University Graduate School
2013–2017 Teaching Assistant, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
2012 Research Assistant, Research Institute for Social and Economic Policy
other professional experience
2023 Co-host, New Books in Environmental Studies
2020 Coding Team (Oceans and Coasts, Food), Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative
2019 Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
2019 Scholar-in-Residence, Faculty Resource Network, New York University
2019 Visiting Scholar, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
2017 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Gulf Research Program, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
education
PhD Human Geography
2018. Florida International University
Dissertation: Engineering Colonialism: Race, Class, and the Social History of Flood Control in Guyana
Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2013. Florida International University
Concentration: Anglophone Caribbean
MA Global and Sociocultural Studies
2017. Florida International University
Major Areas: Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies, Political Ecology
BA Sociology/Anthropology
2013. Florida International University
Second Major: Human Geography
publications
2024
Harris, D.M. and J. Mullenite. 2024. Ruins and Ruination in Political Ecology. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
2023
Mullenite, J. 2023. “Permanent Blight.” Home/Field
Mullenite, J and K.M. Wijsman. 2023. “Book Review: Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn.” Journal of Anthropological Research 79(1): 121-124.
2022
Mullenite, J. 2022. “Prefiguring Freedom in Caribbean Sugar Plantations.” In Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding social science concepts through illustrative vignettes, edited by Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto. Ottawa, ON: Showing Theory Press
Mullenite, J. 2022. “Illegality, Informality, and Survival: Jovan Scott Lewis’ Scammer’s Yard and Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker’s (eds.) Southern Scoundrels” AAG Review of Books 10(1): 36-59.
2021
Mullenite, J. 2021. “Toward Broader Anarchist Geographies: Space, Place, Nation, and State in Anarchist Writing and Scholarship” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 20(2): 206-213.
Berrang-Ford, L., et al. 2021. “Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change.” Nature Climate Change 11(11): 989-1000.
Mullenite, J. 2021. “Publicly Owned Private Spaces” Society and Space
2020
Mullenite, J. 2020. “History, Colonialism, and Archival Methods in Socio-Hydrological Scholarship: A Case Study of the Boerasirie Conservancy in British Guiana” World 1(3): 205-215.
Mullenite, J. 2020. “In Search of (Just) Climate Urbanism.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 11: 143-147.
Mullenite, J. 2020. “Every house a sanctuary: Fighting displacement on all fronts in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.” Radical Housing Journal 2(1): 181-184.
2019
Mullenite, J. 2019. “‘A Mild Despotism of Sugar:’ Race, Labor, and Flood Control in British Guiana.” Geoforum 99: 88-94.
Mullenite, J. 2019. “Infrastructure and Authoritarianism in the Land of Waters: A Genealogy of Water Control in Guyana.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109(2): 502-510.
Mullenite, J. 2019. “Review of Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize by Melissa A. Johnson.” AAG Review of Books 7(3): 160-162.
2017
Aruajo, E., et al. 2017. “Beyond Electoralism: Reflections on Anarchy, Populism, and the Crisis of Electoral Politics.” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 16(4): 607-642.
Mullenite, J. 2017. “Can Climate Change Adaptation be a Desirable Goal?” Human Geography 10(2): 87-94.
2016
Mullenite, J. 2016. “Resilience, Political Ecology, and Power: Convergences, Divergences, and the Potential for a Postanarchist Geographical Imagination.” Geography Compass 10(9): 378-388.
Mullenite, J. 2016. “Book Review: Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-ecological Systems edited by Biggs, Schlüter, and Schoon.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 7: 134-136.
Mullenite, J. 2016. “Book Review: Understanding Poverty and the Environment: Analytical Frameworks and Approaches by Fiona Nunan.” Progress in Development Studies 16(4): 370-371.
2015
Mullenite, J. 2015. “Historical Repetition and Development Narratives in Guyana’s Coastal Drainage and Irrigation System.” Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 13(2): 126-139
Mullenite, J. 2015. “Book Review: The Political Ecology of the State: The Basis and the Evolution of Environmental Statehood by AAR Ioris.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology 17: 54-56
publications with the global adaptation mapping initiative
Petzold, J., et al. 2023. “A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation.” Nature Climate Change 13: 1250-1257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01824-z
Petzold, J., et. al. 2023. “Between tinkering and transformation: A contemporary appraisal of climate change adaptation research on the world's islands.” Frontiers in Climate 4 https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1072231
Simpson, N.P, et al. 2023. “Adaptation to compound climate risks: a systematic global stocktake.” iScience 26: 105926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.105926
Zvobgo, L. et al. 2022 “The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: A structured assessment.” Sustainability Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01118-x
Torhan, S., et al. 2022 “Tradeoffs and Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus.” Earth's Future 10: e2021EF002201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002201
Filho, W.L. et al. 2022. “Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa.” Science of the Total Environment 806(1): 150420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150420
Ulibarri, N., et al. 2022. “A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation.” Climate Policy https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.2002251
Williams, P.A. et al. 2021. “Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: An evidence-based review.” Environmental Research Letters 16(7): 073004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac092d
Thomas, A. et. al. 2021. “Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation.” Regional Environmental Change 21: 85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01808-9
Sheelbeek, P. et al. 2021. “The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries.” Environmental Research Letters 16(7): 073001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac092c
Araos, M. et al. 2021. “Equity in Adaptation: A Systematic Global Review.” One Earth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.001
McDowell, G. et al. 2021. “Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains.” Mountain Research and Development 41(3): A1-A10. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00033.1
Turek-Hankins, L.L. et al. 2021. “Climate change adaptation to extreme heat: A global systemic review of implemented action.” Oxford Open Climate Change 1: kgab005. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgab005
Sitati, A. et al. 2021. “Climate Change Adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic evidence assessment.” Discover Sustainability 2: 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-021-00052-9