Jennie C. Stephens is a feminist climate justice scholar-activist working on transformation toward more just and healthy futures for all. She moved back to Ireland from the US in 2024 and is Professor of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She is on the coordinating team of the Climate Justice Universities Union and is a columnist for The Irish Times. Her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on exnovation away from fossil fuels, confronting climate obstruction, analysing corporate power, reclaiming higher education for the public good, and integrating social justice into climate and energy policy.

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Recent Publications

Time has Come for Exnovation Away from Fossil Fuels, Irish Times, April 2026

Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action, Energy, Sustainability & Society. 2026

Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petromasculinity. Irish Times, Feb 2026

Time to Challenge Corporate Power in Ireland. Irish Times. January 15, 2026

Awards and Fellowships

  • Listed in World’s Top 2% Scientist Ranking, September 2025

  • Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellowship at Harvard, 2023-2024

  • Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, 2016

  • Research Leadership Development Initiative, Northeastern, 2016-2017

  • Leopold Leadership Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute of Environmental, 2015-2016

  • Faculty Community Engagement Award, Colleges of the Worcester Consortium, March 2013

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of International Development, Community, & Environment (IDCE), Clark University. May 2011

  • US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1999-2002

    Education

    • Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2002),  Environmental Science & Engineering

    • M.S. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (1998),  Environmental Science & Engineering

    • B.A. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1997),  Environmental Science & Public Policy