Tracy Perkins

Scholar, Teacher, Digital Sociologist

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2015

October

  • Trash as a renewable resource?

September

  • Goodbye, UC Santa Cruz. Hello, Howard University!

July

  • Teaching “Making California”

May

  • The Environmental Justice Legacy of the United Farm Workers of America
  • Job Market Timeline

March

  • The last-day-of-class student conference: Part 2
  • The last-day-of-class student conference: Part 1

February

  • “Nature and Society” syllabus
  • Valentine’s Day and Fossil Fuels

January

  • New digital project in honor of Teresa De Anda

Recent Posts

  • Nora McDowell speaking about women’s environmental leadership at the Smithsonian Castle
  • New(ish) journal article on public engagement in the environmental humanities
  • Teaching students to contribute to Wikipedia
  • New book chapter just published
  • Hello, Tucson!
  • Intro. to Sociology field trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • New course: Sociology of Food and Agriculture
  • Interview: Book chapter on California-Chiapas-Acre climate change policy
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Class research project
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Boat Tour of the Anacostia River

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  • Pink Floyd and Michel Foucault: A match made in heaven
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  • Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates with Introduction to Sociology students
  • New course: Sociology of Food and Agriculture

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  • Opinion: California’s trucks should be smog-checked like cars
  • Climate Change Versus Clean Water: A Battle Over California Funds

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