Fred Shaia
Biography
Fred Shaia is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. He is writing a dissertation on climate change diplomacy in the United Nations from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Fred has conducted archival, interview, and ethnographic research in 16 countries on six continents, with financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, among others. Fred is a Scholar at the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) and has published in Global Environmental Politics.
In previous academic years, Fred served as a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy (2023-2024); a Visiting Researcher at Ashoka University in New Delhi, India (Spring 2023); and a Presidential Fellow at Brown University (2019-2023). Before Brown, Fred earned a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University and spent several years working for international organizations.