Peg Spitzer | Research Professor at SUNY Stony Brook

Peg Spitzer (formerly Christoff) is a Research Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  She studies women’s leadership in climate change adaptation through environmental and gender equity strategies and oral histories.

She is affiliated with the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), a stakeholder group in the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC); and has served as a member of the jury for the Gender Just Climate Change Solutions awards in 2021 and 2022..

Between 2017 and 2021, she co-authored four articles and four book chapters (two of which won awards) on the social and cultural aspects of climate change; and one case study on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, she developed two digital oral history projects, one on women in US-Asian relations and the other on the implementation of a women-led irrigation technology in India. Prior to her work in climate change, she wrote a series of short biographies on women leaders in local communities; and served as a program consultant, with a specialty in Asian and Asian American studies, in Washington, D.C. for the Kluge Center for International Scholars (Library of Congress), Freer and Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the East-West Center.

Contact me at peg.spitzer@stonybrook.edu. Find me on Google Scholar and Academia.edu.