academic positions

Chatham University

2023- Program Director, Sustainability

2023- Assistant Professor of Sustainable Communities

Wagner College

2022-2023 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

Damon, B. and J. Mullenite. 2024. Prevalence of Subsistence Fishing in New York City and Associated Pollution Concerns. Middle States Geographer 56: 83-92

Mullenite, J. 2024. The Politics of Urban Place-Making and Social Movement Archives. Contemporary Sociology 53(3): 207-212.

Harris, D.M. and J. Mullenite. 2024. Ruins and Ruination in Political Ecology. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 35(1): 4-11.

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.

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

Wannewitz, M., et al. 2024. “Progress and gaps in climate change adaptation in coastal cities across the globe.” Nature Cities 1: 610-619. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00106-9

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