Research Interests: Environmental and Social Justice
Research Projects: The Trials, Tribulations and Celebrations of Climate Change Litigation (2023-2024); Horizon 2020 Project (2019-2021): Urban Arena for Sustainable and Equitable Solutions (URBANA). For extended list, see CV.
Awards: CEU Distinguished Teaching Award (2018)
Theses and Dissertation Supervision:
Sample of Supervised Master's Theses:
Mendoza Acero, Monserrat. 2023. "The 'Frontline Community' of the Waorani Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Ott, Gábor. 2023. Framing the Environment in a Challenging Political Landscape: How Hungarian ENGOs Adapt to a Hybrid Regime
Puecker, Christian. 2021. "Preserving the Last Wild River in Europe": Political Opportunity Structure and the Vjosa River Protection Campaign in Albania. Thesis-based publication: Peucker, C. and T. Steger (2023) Protecting the Last Wild River in Europe from Hydropower Development in Albania: An Environmental Movement Strategy in a Flawed Democracy. Case Studies in the Environment 7 (1): 2018088. Access article in "File Attachments" below.
Sample of Supervised Doctoral Dissertations:
Milicevic, Milos. 2022. Landscapes of Extraction and Dislocation: Placemaking and Futuremaking in Aleksinac, Serbia.
Varfolomeeva, Anna. 2019. Articulations of Indigeneity in Two Mining Regions of Russia: A Comparative Case Study of Karelia and Buriatia.
Barabanova, Yulia. 2013. Emerging Climate Justice Discourse: Perspectives of Grassroots Networks in the UK.
Affiliations: Democracy Institute; Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS); European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); CEU Program Director for BA in Culture, Politics & Society; CEU Strategic Planning Committee; GenderHUB; CEU Ethical Research Committee; CEU Grievance Committee; and Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Masters Program Committee.
Office Hours: Email me at stegert@ceu.edu