She is also an affiliated faculty member at American University’s School of International Service, and a member of the City of Lancaster Planning Commission. She is a political ecologist with interdisciplinary training in international relations. Dr. Bratman’s research centrally concerns how sustainable development is envisioned and carried into politics. Her book manuscript is tentatively titled Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon. Her research and teaching also focuses on racism in the built environment and the prospects for climate justice, and the honeybee in relation to global environmental politics, using intersectional feminist, urban, postcolonial/decolonial, and critical theory.