Elizabeth Carlino
  • Ph.D. Student

Research Interests

  • Sustainability Transitions
  • Food-Water-Energy Nexus
  • Poitical Ecology
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Social Theory 
  • South Africa

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. Geography, Texas A&M University (August 2020 – Present)
  • M.S. Environmental Education, Southern Connecticut State University (2020)
  • B.S. Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University (2012)

Awards & Honors

  • Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023-2024 (Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research)
  • JEDI Student Proposal Award, 2023 (Water Resources Specialty Group, AAG)
  • Aviles-Johnson Doctoral Fellowship, 2020-2023 (Texas A&M University)
  • The Andrew Catalogna Galardi Endowed Scholarship, 2019-2020 (Southern Connecticut State University)
  • The James and Priscilla Blake Endowed Scholarship, 2018-2020 (Southern Connecticut State University)
  • The Future Scientist Foundation Fund Scholarship, 2018-2020 (Southern Connecticut State University)

Selected Publications

  • Casellas Connors, J. P., Carlino, E. A., & Rea, C. M. (2023). The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 25148486231157270. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231157272.

    Carlino, E.A. (2022). [Review of the book Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, by L. Chancel]. The Northeastern Geographer, 13(2022), 13-15. 

    Carlino, E.A. (2020). The New Normal: A critical analysis of policy and media discourse in the Philippi Horticultural Area during the Cape Town Water Crisis (Publication No. 27962459). [Master’s thesis, Southern Connecticut State University]. ProQuest.