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Melissa Checker is Professor and Chair of the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), holding the Hagedorn Professorship. She concurrently serves on the faculty of the PhD Program in Anthropology and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Her educational background:
- Ph.D., New York University, 2002
Checker's research centers on environmental justice and urban sustainability in U.S. contexts, critically examining how green economy initiatives produce environmental gentrification and displacement. Her work integrates analysis of environmental racism, grassroots activism, social movements, and managed retreat strategies with attention to racial and economic equity implications.
She is author of The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice (2020) and Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town (2005), and co-editor of Sustainability in the Global City (2015) and Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power and Public Life (2004).
