Rebecca Marwege
Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics
- Department: History and Politics
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Rebecca Marwege joined the department of History and Politics in August 2025. Prior to moving to Paris, she completed herPh.D. in Political Science at Columbia University, with research focused on climate politics, social movements, and critical theory.
At Columbia University, Marwege served as a Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice and as the Junior Director of Columbias Earth Network on Decarbonization, Climate Resilience, and Climate Justice - a four-year, interdisciplinary research network supported by Columbia Climate School.
She is currently working on her book project,Climate Action, Movements and Political Change, which explores how youth climate movements are redefining climate justice and driving political transformation. She is also the lead editor ofClimate Justice Now! Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis, under contract with Columbia University Press.
Marwege's work has been published in theJournal of Political Theology泭硃紳餃泭Constellationsand is forthcoming inPolity.She has alsocontributed public scholarship in Spanish toForeign Affairs Latin America泭硃紳餃泭Revista Com繳n.
Education/Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, Columbia University
- MPhil, Political Science, Columbia University
- MA, Political Science, Columbia University
- MSc, Political Theory, London School of Economics
- BA, International Relations, King's College London
News
- Hobbes God is Hidden and Idle, Political Theology 23.8 (2021): 768-781.
- Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom. By Sharon R. Krause. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Book Review, Constellations (2025).
- Post-Politics, Climate Movements, and Radical Status-Quoism, Polity (forthcoming).
- Edited Volume: Marwege, Rebecca, Nikhar Gaikwad and Joerg Schaefer (Eds.). Climate Justice Now! - Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis, New York: Columbia University Press (2026).