Justin Joseph is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Climate Change, VIT Chennai, India. Dr Joseph obtained his PhD in Politics and International Relations from IIT Madras, specialising in environmental securitisation. He was awarded the ‘General Scholar Fellowship’ by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India and the Ministry of Education, Government of the People’s Republic of China, for conducting PhD fieldwork in China from September 2017 to July 2018. He was a visiting scholar at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) and Shanghai University in 2016 and 2017, respectively. He was also awarded the ‘Predoc Fellowship’ by IIT Madras for the early submission of his PhD thesis. His recent works include an edited book on ‘Environmental Securitisation in India and China’ by Springer Nature. He serves the scholarly community through his capacity as a reviewer for Oxford University Press, Elsevier, Springer and Wiley journals.
