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

  • 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
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Watching “Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek”
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: 2016 Syllabus

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Top Posts & Pages

  • New course: Sociology of Food and Agriculture
  • Environmental justice syllabus collection
  • Teaching "Women and Work" - Syllabus
  • Teaching low-wage work with playspent.org
  • Academic Job Market Timeline
  • Analytical reading
  • Doing sociology in Las Vegas
  • Teaching my first environmental justice class
  • The culture industry past, present and future
  • Intro. to Sociology field trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture

I research, write and teach as an Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Howard University. My work focuses on social movements, environmental justice, agriculture, toxics and climate change. I also run Voices from the Valley, a website featuring environmental justice advocacy in California's San Joaquin Valley.

RSS Voices from the Valley news feed

  • Calls intensify for California regulators to take action on chlorpyrifos
  • Dirty Air And Disasters Sending Kids To The ER For Asthma
  • New California Laws Address Climate Change—Some Bills Fall Short
  • Air pollution from U.S. manufacturing lower; regulations among other factors credited
  • Tax on California water revived to clean up drinking water – but it’s voluntary
  • Grassroots air quality sensors spreading to local neighborhoods
  • Trump admin has declared war on the environment
  • Climate Defenders Mobilizing for 3rd People’s Climate March
  • California’s biggest environmental challenges? Water. Climate change. Political hot air.
  • The future of California’s grid waits on two bills

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