Sarah Stefanos, PhD

Welcome

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Pomona College. 

I study the politics of development, climate change, and sustainability, with an environmental justice orientation. My dissertation research examined large-scale land concessions in Ethiopia to shed light on intersections of environmental and ethnic politics, agrarian change, marginalization of indigenous peoples, globalization, and domestic/diasporan investment and entrepreneurship in post-socialist states. 

My interdisciplinary scholarship has been supported by the NSF-IGERT program, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the US Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program, the Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, and the Wisconsin Energy Institute, among others.

I was also the co-founder of W2E Ltd, a waste-to-energy applied research company in Uganda that specialized in biogas systems and technological/social/business innovations at the intersection of climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture.