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Scott Frickel is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Environment and Society (IBES) at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has held previous appointments at Tulane University and Washington State University, where he was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology. His research focuses on environment-society interactions, experts and knowledge systems, social movements, and urbanization.
Education: Ph.D. in Sociology (2000), M.A. in Sociology (1992), both from University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. in Sociology and Political Science (1988) from University of Colorado-Boulder.
Research Interests: Environment-society dynamics, expert knowledge production, disaster studies, urban socio-environmental succession, chemical residues as cultural objects, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Recent projects include analyzing legacy industrial pollution risks and developing computational methods to map historical environmental hazards.
Awards: Robert E. Park Book Prize (2020), Starr-Nelkin Award (2016), Robert K. Merton Book Award (2006), and multiple fellowships including the Cogut Institute Faculty Fellowship (2021).
Grants: Lead investigator on NSF-funded projects studying the environmental state and historical socio-ecological data. Co-PI on Superfund Research Program grants addressing environmental health risks in communities.
Advisees: Mentored over 20 graduate students and postdocs, including work on smart meter adoption, participatory science, and environmental inequality in Providence and Boston.
Labs/Initiatives: Director of Brown's Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core (2015-2022), founder of the 'Nature, Society and Culture' book series, and co-organizer of international workshops on computational environmental STS.
