Environmental Racism

Racial Capitalism

Risk Society

Social Movements

Non-profit Industrial Complex

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, 2013

Research Interests

• Environmental sociology
• Environmental justice
• Sociology of race/ethnicity
• Science and technology studies
• Environmental racism
• Racial capitalism
• Risk society
• Social movements
• Non-profit Industrial Complex

Selected Publications

• "Black Earth: Natural Gas Infrastructure and Environmental Racism in Virginia" Roundtable Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York City, NY, August 10, 2019.
• "High Tech Pollution and Anti-Toxics Activism in the Risk Society: A Case Study of Silicon Valley’s Groundwater Disaster." Paper presented at Annual Meeting for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), New York, NY August 11, 2019.
• "Critical Energy Justice in US Natural Gas Infrastructuring." Energy, Research, & Social Science, Vol 41: 176-190 July 2018.

Courses

• Introduction to Sociology (SOCY 101)
• Social Movements & Conflict (SOCY 310)
• Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (SOCY 322)
• Environmental Racism (SOCY 420)