Scholars
Sarah Molinari
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Based in
United States
North America
Sarah Molinari is a cultural anthropologist and public scholar who works at the intersection of ethnography, critical environmental studies, feminist geography, and digital humanities. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center (2021) and serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Faculty Researcher with the Caribbean Collaborative Action Network. Her research broadly examines the politics and lived experiences of debt, mutual aid, and the climate crisis in Puerto Rico and the greater Caribbean region.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Puerto RicoFocus areas of expertise
Climate JusticeHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Molinari, S., & Sheller, M. (Eds.). (2026). Building Equitable Climate Adaptation Partnerships in the US Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15727-0
Méndez-Lázaro, P. A., Cabrera-Rivera, L. T., et al. (2025, October 8). Assessing the impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities of extreme heat in learning environments of Puerto Rico in 2023. The Journal of Climate Change and Health.
Davis, J.M., Checko, T., Sumner A., and Molinari S. (2025). The Disaster Response Mobilization System: a community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico. Disasters 49, no. 4 (2025): e70012.
Grove, K., Reid, G., Molinari, S., Falcon, J., Mehta-Kroll, A., El Fakih, E. S., Sepulveda-Reyes, A., & Ortiz, D. (2023). Absurd geographies of resilience and justice. Climate and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2255566
Molinari, S. (2022). Disaster Fraud Prevention by Exclusion: Property, Homeownership, and Individual Disaster Aid in Puerto Rico. CENTRO Journal XXXIV(2): 327-351.
Wakefield, S., Molinari, S., & Grove, K. (2023). Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami. Urban Geography, 44(8), 1816–1824. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2125664