Bio
Ben Mylius completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Political Theory at Columbia and his LLM at Yale Law School after his undergraduate studies in Australia. His work revolves around climate, storytelling, and imagination. At the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Ben will be working on a book-length project exploring different tools communities can use to imagine their own just, resilient, and dynamic climate futures. The project draws on his dissertation research (“On Human Separatism”) and his practical experience as founder of the Columbia Climate Imaginations Network. Ben is an Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
climate change, culture and imagination