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Hanna E. Morris is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, with expertise in climate change media and critical methods of cultural analysis. Her research concentrates on the nexus of climate, media, and democracy, exploring questions of power, identity formation, and meaning-making in the context of climate change. Morris is the co-chair of the Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power Working Group, part of Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), and serves as a board member of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA). Her forthcoming book, entitled 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' is set to be published by Oxford University Press in 2025. The book investigates how national anxieties from the 2016 presidential election shaped American news coverage of climate change, revealing a new mode of reactionary politics termed 'apocalyptic authoritarianism'. This work critiques the implications of such narratives on progressive social movements, particularly within climate justice. Morris's research has been published in various academic journals and popular media outlets, and she co-edited 'Climate Change Journalism: Negotiating Rifts in Time' (Routledge, 2021). Her scholarship has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Connaught New Researcher Award and the IAMCR Stuart Hall Award.
Department of Sociology