Ph.D. Candidate

Lior Hamovitz is a CSSN scholar, CISS affiliate, and a 2024 recipient of BU Women’s Council Award. Her field of interest is Environmental Justice, with research centering on understanding environmental injustices through the lenses of kinship and loss. She specializes in political theory, with an emphasis on issues of intergenerational and global justice, and the evolving sphere of literature on intersectional environmentalism. Her work aims to inform and contribute not only to academic scholarship, but also the practice of justice-making in climate governance. She has earned her bachelor’s degree in World Politics from Leiden University’s honors program, and her master’s degree in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

During her graduate studies, Lior expects to conduct further fieldwork in the region of the Andes, utilizing a variety of methodologies from political science, anthropology and sociology. Her research agenda engages with Indigenous epistemologies generally and Andean cosmovisions particularly, studying the compounding effects of geography, history and identity on people’s lived experience of climate injustices.
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