Dr. Phoebe Godfrey

University of Connecticut

Dr. Phoebe Godfrey is a Full Professor-in-Residence in Sociology at UCONN and her focus is on the intersections of identity, society and natural world. She teaches courses on Society and Climate Change, Sustainable Societies, Social Theory, Sociology of Food, Sociology of Education and many others but in all, her focus is on engaging students in order to help them explore their potentials. She the co-editor of a two-volume reader – Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender and Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability Intersections of Race, Class and Gender, Routledge 2016. More recently, she is also the co-editor of Global [Im]-Possibilities: Exploring The Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities, Bloomsbury Press, 2021 and author of Understanding Just Sustianabilities: A Case Study of a Share-Use Kitchen in Connecticut, Routledge, 2021. She is the co-founder (with her wife Tina Shirshac) of the non-profit CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen) in Windham that is an incubator for local food businesses. She considers her teaching and non-profit work as central to her commitment to social and ecological justice.