About this speaker
Sarah E. Fredericks is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She also has appointments in the College and Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization and is an Affiliated Faculty Member of The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Fredericks' research focuses on sustainability, sustainable energy, environmental guilt and shame, environmental justice, geoengineering, and the interaction of religion, science, and philosophy. Her work draws upon pragmatic and comparative religious ethics. Fredericks is currently working on a new project about the roles of rest, joy, and action in the time of climate change. Her book Environmental Guilt and Shame: Signals of Individual and Collective Responsibility and the Need for Ritual Responses explores the ethical dimensions of experiencing and inducing environmental guilt and shame, particularly about climate change. She also wrote Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes and many journal articles.
