Julia C Fine

Research Assistant Professor

Julia Fine, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. Her recent research focuses on encouraging collective climate action, communicating about the health harms of climate change, and identifying strategies for climate-health policy integration. Her past research has examined the connections between Indigenous language reclamation and climate justice, explored U.S. climate activists’ experiences with interpersonal climate conversations, and analyzed climate conversations between activists and their friends and family. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Selected Publications

For a more complete list of Julia’s publications, please see her profile on Google Scholar.

Fine, J., Ettinger, J., Myers, T., Yue, Y., Patel, L., Kotcher, J. E., & Maibach, E. Optimizing health professionals' climate advocacy messages. (2026). Environmental Research: Health, 4(3).

Fine, J., Ettinger, J., Zakiyyah, H., Yue, Y., Kotcher, J., Campbell, E., Thier, K., Myers, T., Carman, J., & Rosenthal, S. (2026). Widening polarization in Americans’ perception of the health harms of climate change (2014–2024). Environmental Research: Health, 4(2).

Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Mildenberger, M., Kotcher, J., & Maibach, E. (2026). Lessons from a multi-country research project on climate and health policy integration. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 28.

Fine, J., Ettinger, J., Uppalapati, S., Kotcher, J., & Maibach, E. (2026). Role model narratives are underutilized in Instagram and TikTok climate action posts. Oxford Open Climate Change, 6(1).

Fine, J., Ettinger, J., Kotcher, J., Mildenberger, M., Leiserowitz, A., & Maibach, E. (2025). Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the United States: Insights from national policy stakeholders. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 25, 100485.

Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Thier, K., Badullovich, N., Kotcher, J., & Maibach, E. Communicating with policy makers about climate change, health, and their intersection: A scoping review. (2025). The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(1), e53–e61.

Responding to sustainable lifestyle discourses in climate conversations. (2025). In M. Kosatica & S. Smith (Eds.), Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication (pp. 145–164). Routledge.