Seungyun Lee is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Rutgers University specializing in cultural and environmental sociology. Her research focuses on cultural reception, collective meaning-making processes, and climate communications. In her dissertation, Seungyun examines the role of climate fiction in shaping readers’ emotions toward and future imaginaries of the climate crisis, as well as the social context that mediates these impacts. Seungyun is committed to doing research rooted in public sociology, decolonization of knowledge, and climate justice.
Seungyun holds a BA (Hons) in Environmental Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society from Vanderbilt University, as well as an MA in Sociology from Rutgers University. Her master’s thesis examined how national climate policy affects the average level of individuals’ climate anxiety in different countries. Seungyun is co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Second Edition.