Leah Aronowsky

Leah Aronowsky studied history of science at Harvard University, where she received a PhD in 2018. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School. From 2020 to 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, also at Columbia. Her current research project deals with the history of climate and energy politics in the late 1970s United States. Her academic writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Environmental History, and Environmental Humanities, among other outlets. She also writes essays and reviews about contemporary environmental politics in places like The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Public Books, and Jacobin. She received a BA with high honors from Wesleyan University.