Areas of Expertise
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., Clark University
- B.A., Framingham State University
Happening at Mount Holyoke
Recent campus news
Climate crisis solution?
A startup is attempting to combat climate change by seeding the skies with sulfur dioxide鈥揻illed balloons. Mount Holyoke鈥檚 Kevin Surprise says scientists think the venture is full of holes.
New faculty: Kevin Surprise
New faculty Kevin Surprise was attracted to Mount Holyoke due to its small class sizes and the students鈥 curiosity. 鈥淭he students drive the content and the questions that we explore in class,鈥 he said.
Into the dark
Mount Holyoke鈥檚 Kevin Surprise cautions that a new push to use geoengineering to darken the sky and slow global warming outstrips international agreements.
Recent Publications
Surprise, K., & Sapinski, J. P. (2022). Whose climate intervention? Solar geoengineering, fractions of capital, and hegemonic strategy. Capital & Class, online first, 1-26.
Stephens, J. C., Kashwan, P., McLaren, D., & Surprise, K. (2021). The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A Critique of the National Academies Report. Environmental Politics, 1-10.
Claire, T., & Surprise, K. (2021). Moving the Rain: Settler Colonialism, the Capitalist State, and the Hydrologic Rift in California鈥檚 Central Valley. Antipode, online first.
Surprise, K. (2020). Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1): 213-235.
Stephens, J. & Surprise, K. (2020). The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research. Global Sustainability, 3, E2.