Biography

Hannah Fair holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and an MSc in Environment, Science, and Society from University College London (UCL). She recently completed her Ph.D. in Human Geography at UCL, researching movements for climate justice in the Pacific Island region, with a particular focus on Vanuatu and the role of faith in climate change advocacy. Hannah was a postdoctoral research associate with GLO from 2018 to early-2021.

Prior to starting as a Departmental Lecturer at SoGE in January 2021, Hannah worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the European Research Council-funded project Refiguring conservation in/for 'the Anthropocene': the global lives of the orangutan, based in Anthropology at Brunel University London.

Hannah completed her Ph.D. in Human Geography at University College London in 2018, with her thesis Not Drowning but Fighting: Faith, activism and climate change narratives in the Pacific Islands.

She holds a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Environment, Science and Society from University College London.

Hannah is a Human Geographer specializing in contemporary environment-society relations. At the heart of her research are questions of how to live well with anthropogenically transformed and transforming natures, and how to enact ethical responsibility for the inequitable distribution of these harmful transformations across different societies and species. She has examined these concerns through the overlapping lens of anthropogenic climate change and biological extinction. Across her doctoral and postdoctoral research, she has documented different modes of ethical engagement with these questions, including political activism, religious practice, and philanthropic donation.

Research Interests

• Climate justice in the Pacific Island region
• Orangutan conservation and interspecies compassion in the Anthropocene
• Changing Landscapes of Domestic Pest Management