Hi, I’m Angeline Letourneau.

The ethical dilemmas posed by life in the Anthropocene are significant. Questions ranging from what we owe to the non-human world and what do we owe one another become complicated by legacies of inequality. Some even question whether it is accurate to call this moment the Anthropocene at all, given the uneven contribution of different populations to our current state of disequilibrium. Confronting this moment and the ethical questions it raises requires a deep understanding of the socials processes that led us to this moment, and envisioning pathways to change. My research is guided by several overarching questions:

• What is the co-constitutive relationship between identities and dominant economic and environmental relations?

• How is the relationship between energy and quality of life mobilized to enforce systems of environmental degradation and social inequality?

• How does the establishment and defense of dichotomies such as nature versus the social limit our capacity to address our most pressing sustainability challenges?

In exploring these questions, my scholarship attempts to move beyond capturing the material impacts equity-seeking groups experience to inspiring pathways for meaningful change.

Dr. Letourneau is the Hennebach Assistant Professor of Energy Transitions and Society at the Colorado School of Mines. She holds a Ph.D. in environmental sociology from the University of Alberta.

She has a proven track record for acquiring research funding, with over $590,000 in research funding to date. Her training as a Teaching Fellow at the Peter Lougheed Leadership College plays an influential role in both her teaching and research pursuits, informing her attention to purposeful intervention through sociological methods. Her work has been published in such journals as Climatic Change, WIRES Climate Change, Environmental Sociology, and Environmental Politics.