Rate My Professor Joni Adamson

Her research focuses on environmental humanities, global Indigenous studies, environmental justice, ecocriticism, climate change, and multispecies ethnography. Adamson has authored or co-edited nine books, including American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place (University of Arizona Press, 2001), Keywords for Environmental Studies (NYU Press, 2016), Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos (Routledge, 2016), and Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice (Routledge, 2017). Her scholarly work has received over 3,980 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 29 and i10-index of 49. She has been honored with the Benjamin N. Duke National Humanities Center Senior Fellowship (2019), PLuS Alliance Fellowship (2017-2022), and served as a Delegate to the United Nations Summit of the Future (2024). Adamson is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition and Secretary General of Humanities for the Environment Global Network. She previously served as President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (2011-2013), founded the American Studies Association’s Environment and Culture Caucus (1999-2010), and co-edits the Routledge Environmental Humanities Book Series.