Tracy Perkins

Scholar, Teacher, Digital Sociologist

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2011

  • The week that was
  • What do people from California have in common with people from Chiapas?
  • Is my furniture trying to kill me?
  • Water wars in the Central Valley
  • The week that was
  • Foodies and farmworkers unite!
  • Will work for justice… and honey
  • View from Nob Hill, San Francisco, circa 1300 AD
  • Robert Gottlieb’s new book “Food Justice”
  • New publications on the Golden State
  • Sustainable seafood? Maybe not…

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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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

  • Oilfield wastewater disposal operation near Bakersfield closes under pressure from regulators, environmentalists
  • Assemblymember Ash Kalra Introduces Bill to Make California a Leader in Protecting Tropical Forests
  • Gov Newsom names new chair and new member to Cali State Water Resources Control Board
  • California’s Governor Warns Climate Change Pressuring Utilities
  • Young advocates in Delano are getting loud with hopes to better their community
  • Newsom to Legislature: “Medical Emergency” of Contaminated Drinking Water Demands Political Will
  • Visalia clean-water advocate Laurel Firestone appointed to State Water Board
  • True: ‘More than a million Californians’ don’t have clean drinking water … It could be higher
  • Warning issued for increased risk of respiratory problems in several Central Valley counties
  • San Joaquin Valley Environmental Justice Tour – Fresno to Kettleman City

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