Caitlin Schroering

Assistant professor in the Department of Global Studies and affiliate faculty in Sociology and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research coalesces around multiple areas of social inquiry, including environmental sociology, resource conflicts, water justice, political economy, and transnational/translocal social movements, using feminist and anti-colonial research methodologies.

Her primary line of research is based on extensive fieldwork with two movements fighting against water grabbing, one in Brazil and one in the United States. She comes to academia from a background in organizing and activism and has over 19 years of experience in community, political, environmental, and labor organizing. Her first book, “Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing” (2024), was published by Manchester University Press.