Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2002) is聽Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Culture in the聽聽in the聽聽at the聽. She is author of聽Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice聽(University of Alabama Press, 2007), which won four book awards, including the Jane Jacobs Book Award from the Urban Communication Foundation. Pezzullo also has coauthored with Robert Cox聽Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, 4th Ed. (Sage, 2016), edited聽Cultural Studies and the Environment, Revisited聽(Routledge, 2010), and coedited聽Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to Environmental Movements聽with Ronald Sandler (MIT Press, 2007). In 2015, Pezzullo served as the head of the International Environmental Communication Association鈥檚 Climate Negotiations Working Group at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)/COP21. She has served on and consulted with the American Bar Association鈥檚 Environment, Energy, and Resources committee, the Sierra Club鈥檚 national Environmental Justice Committee, and city planning departments on climate justice. She also serves as Director of聽聽and is a founding member of the聽.
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