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Dr. Farhana Sultana
Welcome to my website! I am a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where I have taught since 2008. I am also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School.
At Syracuse University, I am a faculty affiliate/associate across several programs and departments, such as Women’s and Gender Studies Department, International Relations Program, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Democratizing Knowledge Collective, and Asian/Asian-American Studies.
I am also a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) of the Independent University in Bangladesh.

History
Prior to joining Syracuse University, I was a faculty member in the Department of Geography at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
Before becoming an academic, I was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a $26M large environment-development program in Bangladesh.
I obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where I was a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow.
I obtained my A.B. (Cum Laude) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, where I was a Princeton University Trustee Scholar.

Interdisciplinary Scholar
As an internationally-recognized and award-winning interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author, I am broadly interested in nature-society relationships, political ecology, climate justice, water governance, critical development studies, transnational feminist theories, critical urban studies, human rights, citizenship, decolonizing, and South Asia.
My work is informed by not only my background and training in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience, but also from having lived and worked on three continents, being a post-colonial subject and scholar, and having a lifelong commitment to critical praxis and social justice.
I am the recipient of the 2019 Glenda Laws Award from the American Association of Geographers for “outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues.” I was also selected as an Elevate the Discipline Fellow of the 2023 AAG Cohort on Climate & Society.

Further Details
Details on my research, publications, teaching, advising, outreach, and public engagement can be found on the respective pages.
Some of my publications are available to download from the publications page for academic purposes only.