Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe is an Associate Professor, writer, researcher, storyteller, political ecologist and mother who lives on unceded Coast Salish territory and is based in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on Climate CARE (Community Actions and Responses to Extreme weather events), democratic engagement, participatory governance and environmental justice. She is a Co-founder of the FERN Collaborative (Feminist Environmental Research Network), author of Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency (Fernwood Press) and a Co-editor of Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change (Demeter Press).
Dr. Wiebe received the 2025 Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Teaching Excellence Award, is a recipient of the 2024 CPSA Smiley Book Prize for her book Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat (UBC Press) and received the Charles Taylor Book Prize for her first book Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (UBC Press). She is currently writing a book about democratic performances and the participatory arts of engagement. For more about her research, teaching and publications see: www.sarahmariewiebe.com and follow-her on LinkedIn.
