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Owen Harrington is a union organizer, Ph.D. candidate, and graduate researcher based in Chicago, Illinois, with an academic affiliation at the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. His doctoral research is supervised by Associate Professor Jennifer Baka, whose work focuses on energy governance and political ecology. Harrington combines his academic work with labor activism, serving as an organizer for graduate student worker unions and advocating for improved employment conditions in higher education. His organizing activities extend across Chicago, Pennsylvania, and other Midwest and Rust Belt labor networks, where he participates in union coalitions and labor workshops.

Harrington’s research specializes in nature-society relations, energy geographies, political ecology, and Marxist geography, with a particular emphasis on the political economy of mining and energy transitions. His current doctoral dissertation examines the globalization and financialization of the mining and energy industries through the emergence of the “critical minerals” economy. Using Pennsylvania as a primary case study, he investigates how coal waste and industrial by-products are being repurposed to extract minerals essential for renewable energy technologies. His work explores how these industrial transformations reshape labor markets, technical expertise, environmental governance, and regional political structures. Earlier in his academic career, his Master of Science research focused on the production of environmental knowledge surrounding high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Western Pennsylvania, analyzing how scientists, corporations, policymakers, and local communities contested evidence about fracking’s environmental impacts.

Before pursuing graduate studies, Harrington earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Oberlin College. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests, he also completed minors in French and Comparative Literature, studies that continue to inform his engagement with critical theory, epistemology, and structural philosophy. His scholarly work bridges theoretical geography, labor politics, and environmental governance, making him an emerging researcher in the fields of critical minerals, energy transitions, and labor studies. His institutional contact email is of*****@ps*.edu.

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