Queer Climate Futures

Dr. Meg Perret is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Texas A&M University in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. She completed her Ph.D. in History of Science with a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard University. Her areas of expertise are environmental humanities, feminist science studies, and queer theory. She researches narratives about the future of nature. Her recent publications are in Environmental Humanities, Social Studies of Science, and Frontiers. As a community-engaged scholar, she has worked with intersectional environmental justice organizations, including Intersectional Environmentalism and Our Climate Voices. She has conducted interdisciplinary research with scientists and has collaborated with the feminist laboratory, the Harvard GenderSci Lab. Her research is supported by the Accountability, Climate, Equity and Scholarship Fellowship for her research’s contributions to diversity and inclusion.

Dr. Ashton Wesner is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College. She completed her Ph.D. in Society & Environment in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work intersects the fields of queer feminist science and technology studies, political ecology, critical environmental history, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her recent publications can be found in The American Naturalist, on the history of coloniality, data, and power in the natural sciences, and Women’s Studies, on the gendered slippages in studies on jumping spider mating behavior and the possibilities for queer STS frameworks to disrupt heteropatriarchy in the scientific study of animals. Ashton is also the co-chair of the Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative and the Environmental Humanities Faculty Forum and the Associate Faculty Director of the Center for Arts & Humanities, at Colby College.