Public Scholarship
I have a strong desire to make academic work accessible to the general public and to use research as a tool towards equity and justice in society. My public scholarship includes issues of environmental policy, technology, and gender-based violence.
IT IS TIME FOR ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO STOP BLAMING “OVERPOPULATION” (with Ryan Katz-Rosene)
Overpopulation in environmental politics remains a pernicious myth. In this post, we make a case for why this argument should be put to bed.
Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance
BARRIERS TO INTERDISCIPLINARITY: AN EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE (with Jose Manuel Leal, Anne Bach Nielsen, and Marielle Papin)
This post is a product of a 2022 Toronto Earth Systems Governance conference innovative panel we hosted through our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers (ECR) working group on the topic interdisciplinarity and its challenges, especially for ECRs and scholars in the Global South who often lack interdisciplinary training. We summarize challenges and solutions to increasing interdisciplinarity
Dealing with the digital mob
DEALING WITH THE DIGITAL MOB (with Elizabeth Meehan and Rosalie Rubio)
This op-ed discusses the threat of digital harassment faced by academics and identifies actions that institutions, organizations, departments, and individuals can take to protect scholars from online harassment campaigns.
Devon Cantwell and Rebecca Hardenbrook: Utah bill would help ensure the safety of college students
Devon Cantwell and Rebecca Hardenbrook: Utah bill would help ensure the safety of college students
This op-ed discusses SB 163, which proposes a state-wide student safety commission to be led by students, as well as data transparency and information sharing between local and campus policing agencies.
Untenured tracks
City Climate change policy + Environmental justice
Guest on Untenured Tracks hosted by Dr. Andrew Wilczak (@heyDrWil)
Proofing & Lies
Environmental racism
Guest on Proofing and Lies by Elle Rochford (@RochfordElle) and Andrew Schriver
A city scape
“WHY CITIES AND NATIONAL AUTHORITIES MUST COOPERATE TO MEET THE SECURITY RISKS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE”
Scholars Strategy Network
In Plain Sight
“in plain sight” by emma pettit
After months of work, Cantwell, the Ph.D. student, says she’s seeing the early inklings of a culture shift. She’s heard students start to use terms like “intimate-partner violence.” Members of the Utah working group, along with other university departments and community organizations, applied for a $300,000 federal grant to bolster lethality-assessment-protocol training on campus, increase awareness of the dangers of stalking, and advertise the statewide domestic-violence hotline.
Some university resources are stretched thin. The victim-survivor advocates are each balancing about 30 cases at a time, says Badger. The recommended number is 15. Experts predict that the demand for victim services will only increase as awareness spreads.
And in McCluskey’s case, Cantwell says, people were educated. There were bystanders, and they did intervene. And yet, for a lot of reasons — some institutional, some cultural, some “just not trusting or believing women” — McCluskey fell through the cracks. It’s proof, Cantwell says, that awareness alone is not sufficient.
“Letter: PROCTORU RAISES ETHICAL CONCERNS” By Devon Cantwell and Zachary Stickney
The Daily Utah Chronicle