I joined the Department of European & International Studies (EIS) at King’s College in September 2025. Before, I lectured in Environmental and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Brandeis University, MA, USA. I completed my PhD in International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Between 2018 and 2023, I was based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, where I also worked as international cooperation advisor for the Belém city government.

My interdisciplinary research spans international, environmental, and development studies, grounded in sociology. I examine the relationship between environmental politics, climate finance, and uneven development, particularly how international green strategies affect agrarian conflict and traditional populations.

My book manuscript, The Environment for Finance: How International Projects Shape Land and Rights in the Brazilian Amazon is currently under revision and is expected to be published in 2026. It  critically examines G7 environmental aid to the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the construction and local disputes surrounding institutional and technological structures for green economies, including carbon markets. I hold two Master's degrees in Sociology, one from the New School for Social Research and the other from the Technical University of Dresden. 

Research interests

• International political economy
• Environmental politics
• International development
• Climate finance
• Latin America
• Brazil
• Forest conservation and carbon offsetting
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Critical political economy

Office hours

Thursday: 14.00 -15.00

Friday: 10.00 - 11.00

Teaching

6AAOB511 Power and Poverty in Africa-EU Relations, BA Year 3

7AAON037, Power and Poverty in Africa-EU Relations

PhD supervision

• International political economy
• Environmental politics
• International development
• Climate governance
• Latin America

Or: I welcome applications for PhD topics related to any of my research interests.

Latest publications

Horn, C. (2026) Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium. Political Ecology and the Global Plantation. OR Books, LLC. (Presale link)

Claudia Horn (2025) Klimahilfe Mit Nebenwirkungen. Kooperation Und Konflikt Im Namen Des Amazonas-Schutzes (Climate Aid with Side Effects. Cooperation and Conflict in the Name of Protecting the Amazon). Oekom. URL https://www.oekom.de/buch/klimahilfe-mit-nebenwirkungen-9783987261848

Horn, C. and C. Ramos (2025) ‘Green Capitalism Against Democracy: The Bioeconomy Plan in Pará, NACLA Report on the Americas 57(3): 343–50.

Horn, C. (2025) “Valuing Forests, but Not the Labor That Protects Them: International Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian Amazon.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 0(0):1–23. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2025.2464093.

Horn, C. (2024) ‘The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil’s Green Currency’, Development and Change 55(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12863

Horn, C. (2023) ‘“The River Is Our Street” Intersectional Rural Protest in Brazil’s Amazon’, Sociologica 17(1): 25–40.

Horn, C. (2023) ‘Brazil’s Amazon Fund: A “Green Fix” between Offset Pressures and Deforestation Crisis’, Antipode.