Tracy Perkins

Scholar, Teacher, Digital Sociologist

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Teaching

2014

  • Teaching low-wage work with playspent.org
  • Teaching “Women and Work” through Music Videos
  • Teaching “Women and Work” – Syllabus
  • Student-generated classroom content

2013

  • Speed dating, Dave Chapelle, and the limitations of structuralism
  • Link roundup: Resources for teaching environmental justice
  • Teaching contemporary sociological theory through the media
  • Pink Floyd and Michel Foucault: A match made in heaven
  • Rapping toddlers, inappropriate grandparents, and early structuralism
  • Consumer society and “haul videos”
  • The culture industry past, present and future
  • Marx, the Simpsons, and hog farms

2012

  • Visualizing environmental inequality with Google Earth
  • Teaching my first environmental justice class

2011

  • Teaching classical sociological theory through the media
  • Write a literature review, practice innovation
  • Action research syllabus collection
  • Blogging in the classroom
  • Spanish language teaching tools for environmental justice
  • Teaching research methods – lab curriculum
  • New presentation software
  • Grading season
  • Creating “Principles of Collaboration” documents
  • A shout-out to the teachers
  • Environmental justice syllabus collection
  • Advice for working with environmental justice groups
  • Answering the “What can we do about it?” question
  • The Daily Show on race and the environment
  • Horatio Alger lives on!
  • How well do you know your university?

Recent Posts

  • New publication on California environmental justice movement history
  • New DC-based publications: part 1
  • New job at Arizona State University
  • 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

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Top Posts & Pages

  • The Daily Show on race and the environment
  • Teaching research methods - lab curriculum
  • "Nature and Society" syllabus

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