Social Sciences Newsblog

Nancy Langston awarded Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History

Published February 26, 2021

Nancy Langston (SS/CFRES) has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History. This award is given to one individual each year who has contributed significantly to environmental history scholarship and recognizes exceptional lifetime achievement in the field.

Langston has published five books and more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, and she has been awarded more than a million dollars in competitive external funding. Her current research, on woodland caribou and other migratory wildlife of the north, is supported with a Fulbright Research Chair, a Mellon Fellowship, a Mandel Award in the Humanities, and an NSF research grant in Science and Technology Studies.

In Print

Published February 24, 2021

By Christine Flood

New publication on the history of oil palm plantations

A new article exploring the history of the first oil palm plantations by Jonathan Robins (SS) has been published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

The article examines the economic, political, and environmental factors that contributed to the early growth of the oil palm industry, which is today the world’s largest supplier of vegetable oil

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/abs/shallow-roots-the-early-oil-palm-industry-in-southeast-asia-18481940/EB9B53BBAF6698ED0EE151BD11CF93E2

In Print

Published February 9, 2021

By Christine Flood

Angie Carter has published an invited essay “Thinking Downstream” in Compelling Ground: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa, a book documenting the exhibit of the same name that has recently opened at the Brunnier Art Museum in Ames, Iowa.

She will take part in a panel “The Changing Face of Iowa Farming” on Tuesday, April 13 as part of the exhibit’s virtual events.

In Print

Published February 5, 2021

By Christine Flood

Shan Zhou (SS) published a sole-authored article “The Effect of Smart Meter Penetration on Dynamic Electricity Pricing: Evidence from the United States” in The Electricity Journal.

The paper explores how electric utilities in the U.S. are leveraging AMI meter installations to implement dynamic pricing programs.

In Print

Published February 5, 2021

By Christine Flood

Angie Carter (Social Sciences) and co-author Andrea Basche (agronomy, University of Nebraska) published “Training future agriculture professionals in landowner–tenant conservation decision‐making” in Natural Sciences Education.

The paper analyzes collaborative conservation case studies; the research was funded by the North Central Region – Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.

In Print

Published February 5, 2021

By Christine Flood

Adam Wellstead (SS) and Gemma Carey (University of New South Wales) published “Introduction: The Virtual World of the Public Servant,” In: Sullivan H., Dickinson H., Henderson H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

In Print

Published February 5, 2021

By Christine Flood

Kari B. Henquinet (SS/PHC) published article “Time, (Com)passion, and Ethical Self-Formation in Evangelical Humanitarianism” in a special issue of the Journal of Religious Ethics focused on the anthropology of ethics, moral experimentation, and humanitarianism. The article is available here.

In Print

Published January 14, 2021

By Christine Flood

Chelsea Schelly (SS), PhD student Don Lee (EEP PhD student), Michigan Utility Consumer Participation Board Member Elise Matz, and Joshua M. Pearce (MSE/ECE) have published “Applying a Relationally and Socially Embedded Decision Framework to Solar Photovoltaic Adoption: A Conceptual Exploration” in Sustainability.

In Print

Published November 20, 2020

By Christine Flood

Mark Rhodes (SS), William Price (Ball State University) and Amy Walker (Cardiff University) have an edited volume titled Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage due in print as part of Routledge’s Sustainable Urbanism Series November 23rd, 2020.

All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s communities and the senses of place and heritage that grew alongside and in reaction to the growth of industry.

In Print

Published November 4, 2020

By Christine Flood

Chelsea Schelly (SS) along with Emily Prehoda (EEP PhD Grad) and colleagues from The Nature Conservancy (Jessica Price) and Defenders of Wildlife (Aimee Delach and Rupak Thapaliya), have published “Ratepayer Perspectives on Mid- to Large-Scale Solar Development on Long Island, NY: Lessons for Reducing Siting Conflict through Supported Development Types” in Energies.