Emily Ray

Emily Ray is an Associate Professor at Sonoma State University, where she has been a faculty member since Fall 2015. She previously taught at Northern Arizona University and earned her PhD from Virginia Tech.

• Research Focus: Environmental political theory, climate change, technology policy, and outer space governance.
• Key Themes: Colonial legacies in resource extraction, neoliberal disaster preparedness, and biopolitical dimensions of environmental crises.

Her publications analyze intersections of property rights in outer space, doomsday prepping culture, and critiques of resource accumulation. While no specific scientific awards are documented in the provided text, her work appears in prominent journals like Theory & Event and New Political Science.