Erin Friedman
Research Assistant Professor
Contact:
Email: erin.friedman@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-650-3456
Office: 1215 HE
Personal Website:
Biography:
Dr. Erin Friedman is a human-environment geographer broadly interested in small island and urban coastal resilience with a focus on the politics of climate resilient development. She serves as a chapter scientist for the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Cities. As a mixed-methods researcher, Dr. Friedman employs ethnography, participatory action methods, GIS, and computational discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in advancing data-driven approaches to understanding climate policy construction and its politics under shifting definitions of resilience, disaster attribution, and development. Her work has been published across interdisciplinary venues including Annual Review of Public Health, Global Environmental Change, Climate Risk Management, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, npj Climate Action, Environmental Science and Policy, and Journal of Extreme Events.
Education:
Ph.D. 2021 Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography concentration), The Graduate Center, CUNY M.A. 2012 Geography, Hunter College, CUNY B.S. 2010 Anthropology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Research Interests:
climate resilient development, critical adaptation studies, Caribbean geography, climate governance, climate finance, participatory methods, discourse
