Sheena Wilson

Professor of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta

Sheena Wilson is a Professor of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, co-founder of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and principal investigator of on Just Powers, a national research initiative on energy and climate justice. Dr. Wilson’s interdisciplinary-intersectional-decolonial work on climate links to the exploitation of gendered, classed and racialized bodies, and the erasure of knowledge held by those bodies. By extension, Dr. Wilson interrogates 21st century knowledge production challenges. She asks: What knowledges are needed to ensure the health and wellbeing of humans and our more-than-human kin on a changing planet? Publication highlights include Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Cultures w/ Imre Szeman and Adam Carlson and (MQUP, 2017); "Traffiking in Petronormativies" (2020); "Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures" (2018); "Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World"(2016); "Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations” (2014). With Dr. Angele Alook, she co-directed Pîkopayin: It is Broken (2022), a documentary film created as part of a partnership between Just Powers and Bigstone Cree Nation. Her forthcoming monograph is titled New Logics for the Climate Crisis.