Nicolas Stahelin, EdD

As a political ecologist, educator and researcher, Nicolas Stahelin has been involved in experiential learning, international and cross-cultural exchange, urban community partnerships, and higher education for 25 years. He has a BA in environmental studies from Oberlin College, an MA in international educational development from Columbia University, and a doctorate in international and comparative education focusing on sustainability policy, also from Columbia. Nicolas is a faculty member of the SIT Graduate Institute MA program in Climate Change and Global Sustainability and a recent research associate at the Sustainability and Education Policy Network of the University of Saskatchewan. He has conducted ethnographic research on urban school-community partnerships for social justice education programs with Latin American immigrant communities in Queens, NY. Nicolas has published in several high-impact peer-reviewed scientific journals. His published doctoral research includes a critical examination of urban environmental governance and the fight for environmental justice in public school communities of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In current projects, Nicolas is investigating the ways that urban political ecology in theory, and environmental justice movements in practice, should inform critical urban studies program design in study abroad. Nicolas is an alum (fall 2000) and former program assistant (2001, 2003–2004) of a SIT Study Abroad program in Brazil. Originally Swiss-Brazilian, Nicolas lived for over 20 years in Brazil and Venezuela and is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

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Education

• EdD, Columbia University
• MA, Columbia University
• BA, Oberlin College