Julia C Fine

Postdoctoral Fellow

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., 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. (2025). Communicating with policy makers about climate change, health, and their intersection: a scoping review. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(1), e53-e61.

Fine, J. (2025). Responding to Sustainable Lifestyle Discourses in Climate Conversations. In Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication (pp. 145-164). Routledge.

Fine, J. C., Gray, S., Grosse, C., & Mark, B. (2024). A song in a cold place: The role of emotions in motivating youth activism and advancing justice at the COP. Climate and Development, 16(10), 848-859.

Fine, J. C. (2024). Refining relational climate conversations to promote collective action. Climate Action, 3(1), 10.

Fine, J. C., Love-Nichols, J., & Perley, B. C. (2023). Climate & language: An entangled crisis. Daedalus, 152(3), 84-98.

Fine, J. C. (2023). Climate justice communication: Strategies from US Climate activists. Environmental Communication, 17(5), 469-485.

Fine, J. C., & Love-Nichols, J. (2023). We are (not) the virus: Competing online discourses of human-environment interaction in the era of COVID-19. Environmental Communication, 17(3), 293-312.

Fine, J. C. (2022). Closing the concern-action gap through relational climate conversations: Insights from US climate activists. Climate Action, 1, 26.