Jeni Cross is co-author of “Addressing the Infrastructure Decay Rate in US Cities: the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Information and Communication” published in Part XI The Role of Urban Planning and Public Policies in the edited volume Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
Jessie Luna published “The Ease of Hard Work: Embodied Neoliberalism among Rocky Mountain Fun Runners” in Qualitative Sociology in January. Luna joined CSU’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2018 and specializes in environmental inequality, race, food and agriculture, development, and cultural sociology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-019-9412-8#aboutcontent Direct access at: https://rdcu.be/bhWm1 ABSTRACT In contemporary Western countries, thin, fit, and “healthy” bodies operate as important markers […]
Jeni Cross and colleagues published “Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes” in Society & Natural Resources.
Josh Sbicca and Rebecca Shisler (’16 M.A.) published “Agriculture as Carework: The Contradictions of Performing Femininity in a Male-Dominated Occupation” in Society & Natural Resources.
Dr. Tara Opsal has been awarded an Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the College of Liberal Arts. Her winning project is Penitentiaries on the Plains: Rural Economies, Identities, and the Carceral State. In her proposal, Dr. Opsal says this is one component of a larger comparative project that examines the […]
Dr. Pat Hastings has been awarded an Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the College of Liberal Arts. His winning proposal is Rethinking Consumption Inequality: Investigating Differences by Types of Consumption and Consumers. In his proposal, Dr. Hastings describes how he will investigate what has happened to consumption inequality during the […]
Jeni Cross’s Sustainable Places, Health and Educational Research in Schools (SPHEReS) research team hosted 52 fourth-graders from Northglenn’s STEM Lab in January. SPHEReS partners with Adams 12 Schools to examine the impact of school environment on occupant health and performance. Funded by the EPA, the Healthy Schools project is the first time that epidemiologists, sociologists, economists, and sustainability experts have collaborated at this scale to address this question. STEM Lab […]
Lynn Hempel and CSU’s Graduate School presented “Mentoring – building relationships that build careers” during CSU’s 40th Annual Professional Development Institute (PDI) put on by The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) in January at the LSC (shown below right). The session covered why have a mentor, the responsibilities of both parties, establishing and fostering the […]
Stephanie Malin co-authored “Embedding the atom: Pro-neoliberal activism, Polanyi, and sites of acceptance in American uranium communities” published in The Extractive Industries and Society.
Stephanie Malin and Adam Mayer published “How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity” in Journal of Rural Studies.
