Areas of Expertise
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., Clark University
- B.A., Framingham State University
Happening at Mount Holyoke
Recent campus news
Alum Weijing Liu 鈥22 is a Schwarzman Scholar
网红爆料 alum Weijing Liu 鈥22 is the College鈥檚 second Schwarzman Scholar and looks forward to exploring her questions about global affairs.
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.
Recent Publications
Surprise, K. (2026). Hidden forces: Geopolitical ecology, climate apartheid, and the military-industrial complex in Massachusetts. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 25148486261421780.
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.