Caleb Scoville

Caleb Scoville is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences, specializing in environmental sociology and the politics of scientific knowledge. His research examines environmental conflicts, particularly how technical and political conceptions of nature interact during controversies. He holds ACLS and Andrew Carnegie fellowships and has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association.

His current book project analyzes California's Delta Smelt controversy as a lens to understand how environmental conflicts become entangled with infrastructure, law, and partisan politics. Additional research explores the environmental justice implications of AI in conservation, the moral regulation of states by financial markets, and the historical development of partisan environmental politics.

Scoville teaches courses in Environmental Sociology and Social Theory. He is affiliated with Tufts' Environmental Studies Program and the Climate Social Science Network at Brown University. His publications consistently examine power dynamics in environmental knowledge production, often employing qualitative and computational methods.