Dr. Leigh Johnson

Research projects

Current

Index Insurance as Development Model and Emerging Market: Climate Adaptation and the Making of Risk-Bearing Subjects

Past

Insuring Climate Change: Science, Fear, and Value in Reinsurance Markets (PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2011)
Funded by: U.S. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant No. 0928711 (joint support from Geography and Regional Studies and Science and Technology Studies, 2009-2011); the Society of Women Geographers (2008-2009), and the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006-2009. 

Arctic Climate Change and the New Dynamics of Accumulation by Degradation (2004-2006)
Thesis research for advancement to PhD candidacy, U.C. Berkeley