Dr. Leigh Brownhill is a scholar of social movements, from anti-colonialism, ecofeminism and anti-racism to climate transitions and global soci-ecological transformations.
Educational credentials
BA, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, Social Thought and Political Economy & Women's Studies
MA, U. Guelph, Sociology & International Development
PhD, U. Toronto, Adult Education and Community Development
Professional affiliations
Associate Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Brownhill, Leigh, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Terran Giacomini, Ana Isla, Michael Löwy, Terisa E. Turner (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism, 1st edition, Routledge, 2022.
Brownhill, Leigh, “Anti-racist Activism in the COVID-19 Era,” The Hub, Athabasca University, 4-part Op-Ed, June 16-19, 2020.
Brownhill, Leigh, Wahu M. Kaara, and Terisa E. Turner, “Food Sovereignty through Ecofeminism in Kenya: From Capitalist to Commoners Agricultural Value Chains,” in Isla, Ana (ed.), Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question, Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2019, pp. 219-229.
Giacomini, Terran, Terisa E. Turner, Ana Isla and Leigh Brownhill. Capitalism Nature Socialism, Special Issue on Ecofeminism, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2018.
Brownhill, Leigh, Land, Food, Freedom: Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya, 1870-2010, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2009.