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Tema Milstein's work is in the field of environmental communication, a social science and humanities transdiscipline��that understands communication as a powerful force at a time of human-generated ecological and climatic crises. She is particularly known for cultural approaches to studying how communication shapes ecological understandings, identities, and actions. Her work tends to��discourses that otherwise go unnoticed, to connections between discourses and wider destructive or restorative practices, and to paths toward sustainable, just, and regenerative futures. Her research spans the globe,��illustrating tensions between overarching and marginalised environmental meaning systems, examining ecotourism and environmental activism, and establishing the study of ecocultural identities.��Milstein's��open access����(with co-editor José Castro-Sotomayor) gathers international interdisciplinary authors to bring the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of the self.

Milstein is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2026-2029, “Environmental Communication for Whales, Dolphins, and Restorative Futures.”). Her project aims to illuminate the ecocultural discursive dimensions of globally popular cetacean watching to advance effective strategies for sustainability awareness and action both in Australia and internationally. She is a former Fulbright Scholar (New Zealand), and recipient of 91ɫ��Ƭ's Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture��Dean's Research Award for Society Impact.

Milstein engages in a range of research-to-public-praxis work, including as co-founder/co-lead of��, a global public activation project designed to invite anyone anywhere to step into their power to create everyday experiences of ecocentric transformation��(affiliated with the global Massive Change Network) and as a co-facilitator of Deep Ecology workshops with John Seed.

In 2025, Milstein served as Conference Chair for��Conference on Communication and Environment, which convened for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere (Tasmania). She serves on several journal editorial boards, including flagship journals in the field such as��, the , and .

As an ongoing member of 91ɫ��Ƭ's��, Milstein served as convenor of the����2019-2025, a program focused on nourishing tomorrow's change-makers in restoratively rethinking and reshaping the world. She is dedicated to transformative ecopedagogy, and is lead editor of the open access edited book��, founder of the "Inside-Out Classroom,"��and served as her former institution's University Presidential Teaching Fellow.��Milstein has��taught at universities in Australia, the United States, Italy, China, and New Zealand. Before coming to 91ɫ��Ƭ, she was Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies and Environmental Communication at the University of New Mexico. In her previous professional life, she was a print and public radio journalist.