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

  • 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
  • Back-to-school checklist
  • Overcoming Corporate Threats to Academic & Community Research on Industrial Animal Production
  • “Toxic tour” of Baltimore

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Teaching my first environmental justice class
  • Environmental justice syllabus collection
  • The culture industry past, present and future
  • About
  • Speed-dating, Dave Chappelle, and the limitations of structuralism
  • Research methods
  • Teaching Environmental Inequality: Boat Tour of the Anacostia River
  • Marx, the Simpsons, and hog farms
  • Intro. to Sociology
  • "Nature and Society" syllabus

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

  • 2017 Legislative Wins and looking forward!
  • Clean Energy Investments Act is signed into law
  • Governor signs Bakersfield Assemblymember’s bill to provide clean water to disadvantaged communities
  • Senate Bill 623 could resurface when Assembly begins a new legislative session begins in January
  • Refining California’s Cap and Trade Program: Plan Accordingly
  • California Game Changers: Can We Ban Fracking?
  • New Toolkit Connects City Planning and Environmental Justice
  • SB 1000 Toolkit: Planning for Healthy Communities
  • U.S. Climate Change Policy: Made in California
  • Farmworkers’ Dilemma: Affordable Housing, but Undrinkable Water

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