Dr. Joseph A. Henderson is an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

He is trained as an anthropologist of environmental and science education, and his research investigates how sociocultural, political, and geographic factors influence teaching and learning about climate change. His current research investigates how environmental education contributes to emerging ecofascist movements around the world. As part of the UNESCO-informed Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project he investigates climate change educational policy in federated governance systems.

He recently co-edited Teaching Climate Change in the United States, a collection that celebrated the diversity of climate change education programs across the United States. He has published in the Journal of Environmental Education, Environmental Education Research, the International Journal of Science Education, and Educational Studies. Additionally, he is an associate editor at the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences and is an editorial board member at Environmental Education Research and the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.