Christie Parris

Christie Parris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oberlin College, with an affiliation to the Environmental Studies Program. She specializes in social inequalities and environmental justice.

• Education: BA (2003, University of Tennessee Chattanooga), MA (2009, Emory University), PhD (2014, Emory University)

Her research focuses on:

• Individual and collective responses to environmental injustices
• Social movement strategies and political framing
• Intersection of Appalachia's socio-environmental issues

Recent article trends include:

• 2024: Methodological approaches to sociological assessment
• 2020: Environmental justice perception analysis

She teaches courses like Environmental Sociology, Social Research Methods, and Coal, Communities, and Culture. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Currents and Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change.