Christina Gerhardt

Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org, The Nation, The Progressive, and the Washington Monthly.

She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities and held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley. She was a resident at the Mesa Refuge in 2020, where she worked on Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press 2023), which weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.