Meg Perret

Dr. Meg Perret serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Texas A&M University and holds affiliate status with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her scholarship critically examines how scientific narratives about nature intersect with identity politics to shape environmental futures, positioning her at the vanguard of feminist climate justice research.

Education

• Ph.D. in History of Science with Secondary Field in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Harvard University)
• B.A. Triple Major: Integrative Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology), Gender & Women’s Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies (Science, Technology & Society) (UC Berkeley)

Her research program centers on interdisciplinary analyses of environmental narratives, revealing how cultural constructions of race, gender, and sexuality influence scientific framing of biodiversity crises and climate change. Through feminist science studies and queer ecologies lenses, she exposes how rhetoric about endangered species (e.g., “transgender frogs”) becomes weaponized in political discourses while simultaneously shaping public understanding of ecological futures. Current projects interrogate gendered extinction narratives in conservation biology and scientist-activist collaborations in U.S.-Mexico borderlands environmental justice movements.

Publication trends demonstrate consistent engagement with intersectional environmental justice across temporal and geographic scales—from endocrine disruption impacts on amphibians to migrant justice symbolism in monarch butterfly conservation. Her work bridges STEM fields and social justice through collaborations with climate activists, consistently centering voices of women, people of color, and LGBTQ communities on environmental frontlines.

Scientific Awards

• Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship Faculty Fellowship (Texas A&M)

Dr. Perret actively partners with environmental justice collectives to translate research into activist praxis, particularly through amplifying frontline community narratives in scientific discourse. Her fellowship-funded work directly supports campus diversity initiatives while advancing collaborations with borderlands conservation groups. Though formal student advising isn't detailed in source materials, her participatory research methodology inherently involves community knowledge co-production.

She maintains critical partnerships with conservation biologists and migrant justice organizations across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, notably examining how endangered species like monarch butterflies become symbols for queer migrant identity in art-activism. Her laboratory of practice extends beyond traditional academic spaces into community-led environmental movements.