https://www.myleslennon.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://www.myleslennon.com/about daily 0.75 2026-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1604497805807-A6LKQZQ1SD79NEWMSZBN/About_Headshot.jpg About Me - I am an environmental anthropologist, Dean’s Associate Professor of Environment & Society and Anthropology at Brown University, and a former sustainable energy policy practitioner. I conduct ethnographic research on solar energy deployment, forestry, and agricultural land stewardship in both urban and rural communities of color in the United States. Through this work, I show how equity-oriented decarbonization and climate resiliency efforts paradoxically reproduce the very formations of structural power that they are supposed to supplant: extractivism, land enclosures, and labor exploitation. But this analysis is not an indictment of the solar energy campaigns, ecological restoration projects, and farming communities that I explore through close ethnographic engagement. Instead, I show that on-the-ground work for climate justice is often less about achieving utopic ideals of sustainability and equity, and more about strategically navigating the everyday contradictions of environmental governance in an extractive settler colony. I pursue this work out of a conviction that environmental policy, organizing, and research are far more effective when they focus less on abstract idealizations of sustainability and more on how people actually make sense of and respond to environmental problems under the structural constraints of their day-to-day lives. My research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Wend Collective. My scholarly and teaching interests include the anthropology of energy, the co-production of race and nature, multispecies ethnography, climate justice and environmental justice, science and technology studies, affect theory, and the epistemological politics of climate mitigation efforts. I hold a B.A. in Development Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D in environmental anthropology from Yale University. My research and scholarly objectives are informed by my experience as a sustainable energy practitioner and advocate in New York for eight years prior to beginning my Ph.D. https://www.myleslennon.com/videos daily 0.75 2021-10-19 https://www.myleslennon.com/syllabi daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/9c5e271c-e062-405c-a120-6e3ffb2e7b1b/Screen+Shot+2023-10-22+at+5.16.44+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1634724371258-V7CORMK2P4A74KP6T959/0001.jpg Syllabi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/a681cca0-968c-4cbc-b544-486e25454124/Screen+Shot+2023-10-22+at+5.47.06+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1605063430101-J820ZAN1KDPSODBN6E79/BiopoliticsCOVER.jpg Syllabi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1605161462940-1UCMILFY8C3UET3Y2OOJ/Energy+COVER.jpg Syllabi https://www.myleslennon.com/home daily 1.0 2020-11-06 https://www.myleslennon.com/recommended-reads daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/c24ee549-ab3b-4358-b87d-0960d631bad3/Liboiron+Cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/c3180f1f-c358-4fa5-9819-4fbd6c6b7b3a/Dark+Agoras+image+.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1634686872830-VI4RTDEL6YI7YZBWEP2A/Shange+Book+Cover+.jpg Recommended Reads - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1604494833332-0J5ICAAF2JOW3ALN7Q13/Reads_BecomingHuman.jpg Recommended Reads Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, NYU Press, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1604495185325-7GHUZM0AH0P6XX7YNJWC/Reads_TestoJunkie.png Recommended Reads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9d42fcc040c676a71d3182/1604495335606-P8W09XXPEVODOQN378A0/Reads_Listening.jpg Recommended Reads Duke University Press, 2017