Kwabena Edusei

Kwabena Edusei is an interdisciplinary environmental justice scholar. His research draws on acoustic ecology, environmental political theory, epistemic injustice, and decolonial and Indigenous philosophies. His scholarship examines the political and epistemic structures that shape environmental injustice, the conditions necessary for pursuing environmental justice, the enduring effects of colonialism, and the environmental politics of sound. Edusei’s work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Sound Studies Review; he has forthcoming work in Environmental Politics and was invited to contribute to a special issue of Environment and Society: Advances in Research on multifaceted environmental justice.   

Edusei’s current research project, “Within Earshot of Environmental Justice,” examines sound as an undertheorized site of environmental justice. He has also been invited to participate in Author Meets Critics forums on Jordan Pascoe and M. Stripling’s The Epistemology of Disaster and Social Change and Gwen Ottinger’s The Science of Repair (Oxford University Press, 2026).

At Hamilton, Edusei organized the 2025 Environmental Justice Workshop and, through the Morris Fellowship, planned a campus visit by leading environmental justice scholar David Pellow.

Recent Courses Taught

Environmental Justice
Ethics of Renewable Energy

Appointed to the Faculty

Educational Background

Ph.D., Michigan State University
B.A., Brooklyn College, City University of New York
B.S., Brooklyn College, City University of New York