Joel Wainwright, Red Natural History Fellow
Joel is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, where he teaches about political economy, environmental change, and social theory. His most recent book, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis (2025) traces the influence of Charles Darwin on Karl Marx’s thought, excavating a Marxian tradition of natural history that can orient a collective response to the planetary crisis of climate change. His books include Climate Leviathan (with Geoff Mann, 2018), Decolonizing Development (2008), Geopiracy (2012), and the co-edited volume Rethinking Israel/Palestine: Marxist Perspectives (2019).