Professor Fredericks’ research focuses on sustainability, sustainable energy, environmental guilt and shame, environmental justice, and the interaction of religion, science, and philosophy. Her work draws upon pragmatic and comparative religious ethics.
Fredericks wrote a chapter in one of the first books examining climate engineering from the perspective of religious studies: “Ritual Responses to Climate Engineering,” in Theological and Ethical Reflections on Climate Engineering: Calming the Storm (Lexington, 2016) edited by Forrest Clingerman and Kevin J. O’Brien. Professor Fredericks also is the author of a number of other chapters and articles and two books. Environmental Guilt and Shame: Signals of Individual and Collective Responsibility and the Need for Ritual Responses (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines the ethical dimensions of experiencing and inducing environmental guilt and shame, particularly about climate change. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes (Routledge, 2013), and articles in Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology; Environmental Justice, and Ethics, Policy, and Environment.