About

ABOUT CHRISTIE

I do research and community work at the intersection of feminism, peace, and environmental politics. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin studying gender, conflict, and coercive control.

I joined UCD from Sweden, where I completed my PhD studies at Lund University. My thesis, titled Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus, involved fieldwork in Puerto Rico and research on knowledge production around climate change and community processes of transformation. I was awarded the Agenda 2030 Award for the dissertation work.

Much of my work takes a feminist perspective to study the gendered dynamics of knowledge production as well as climate change drivers, experiences, and responses. Areas of particular interest in my research include intersectionality as praxis, degrowth, ethics of care, and feminist peace.

I draw on interpretivist feminist approaches including phenomenology to engage with theories, concepts, and methods that center care and intersectionality. Much of my research is based on fieldwork, which has afforded me the chance to study and contribute to ongoing efforts toward climate transformation in Puerto Rico and food sovereignty in Guam.

BACKGROUND

I am originally from the USA. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and currently live in Malmö, Sweden. Growing up close to family and early work with community groups has shaped how I see and experience the world. Before coming into academic research, I worked with human rights and anti-genocide political advocacy and educational programming with several not-for-profit local and international organizations.

EDUCATION

In April 2024, I received my PhD from Lund University, having completed my doctoral studies as part of the Department of Political Science and Agenda 2030 Graduate School. I completed an MSSc in Peace and Conflict Studies as a Rotary Peace Fellow at Uppsala University (2017) and hold a BA in Global Studies from the University of Minnesota (2013).