Sophia Kalantzakos (Σοφία Καλαντζάκου)

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Sophia Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at New York University and currently a long-term affiliate at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is the author of China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths (Oxford University Press, 2018), The EU, US, and China Tackling Climate Change: Policies and Alliances for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with N. Farantouris of Energy and Environmental Transformations in a Globalizing World: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2015.

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on environmental governance, energy, public policy and geopolitics, especially resource competition and climate change as threats that are reshaping power politics across the globe. Her work focuses on China and in particular Sino-European relations. Her current project examines how China’s rise, its vision for the Belt and Road Initiative, shifting power relations, and the land and maritime “re-unification” of Eurasia and Africa have already begun to reshape global institutions, norms, and governance structures, opening up a space for greater mobility that goes beyond the trade of goods.

Kalantzakos founded and heads eARThumanities, the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative at NYU Abu Dhabi. She has been a Rachel Carson Fellow at LMU Munich in 2015 and 2018 and currently is a member of its Academic Advisory Board. During the academic year 2019-2020 as Fung Global Fellow, Kalantzakos will be a Visiting Research Scholar in residence at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).