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Maria Isabel Espinoza

Assistant Professor

Berkey Hall, 460B

espin145@msu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Area of Expertise

Environment Migration and MovementsRace Class Gender and SexualityHealth Medicine and the Body

Biography

Maria Isabel Espinoza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching areas of expertise are environmental communication, the sociology of climate change, and the climate and health nexus. Her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Environmental Sociology, Big Data & Society, and Climatic Change. Her book, A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism (Oxford University Press), co-authored

Education

PhD Sociology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2023

Publications

Espinoza, M. I., & Brechin, S. R. (2017). A case against the Green Climate Fund’s concurrent 50:50 ratio climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy. Climatic Change, 142, 311–320. DOI:10.1007/s10584-017-1938-8

Aronczyk, M., & Espinoza, M. I. (2019). Sustainable communication: green PR and the export of corporate environmentalism, 1989–1997. Environmental Sociology, 5(3), 308-322. DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2018.1564455

Espinoza, M. I. (2021). Conflicting diagnostic and prognostic framing of epidemics? Newspaper representations of dengue as a public health problem. Social Science & Medicine, 289, 114398. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114398

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