Stefanie Fishel
Stefanie Fishel is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and a Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project. She is on the management committee of the Queensland Koala Crusaders and is a trained animal carer and rescuer.
She was educated at the University of Victoria, British Columbia where she received her Master of Arts in International Relations, and earned her PhD at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in International Relations and Political Theory.
She is the author of The Microbial State: Global Thriving and The Body Politic (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and co-author of Institutionalising Multispecies Justice (with Danielle Celermajer at al. 2024) and The Ecology Politic: Power, Law, and Earth in the Anthropocene (with Anthony Burke, MIT Press, 2025). Her publications include “The Global Tree” in Review of International Studies), “From Land to Sea: Thinking Multispecies Justice in Fluid Environments” (with Susan Reid) in Contemporary Political Theory, and “Of Other Movements: Nonhuman Mobility in the Anthropocene,” in Mobilities Journal.