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Sociology Dept.
H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr
College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Travis Williams Home  Directory Travis Williams
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Environmental Justice, Environmental Sociology, Cultural Studies, Science & Technology Studies. My dissertation focuses on the public environmental politics of mountaintop removal coal mining in Southern Appalachia and alternative energy movements, with a key emphasis on environmental justice in the context of formal environmental decision-making concerning energy production and consumption. |
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Research Working Group Affiliation
UCSC Science and Justice Working Group (SJWG)
Position: Steering Committee Member
Duration: Winter 2007-Present
In Spring 2007 I helped organize the Genomics and Justice Conference held May 17-18, 2007 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conference brought together scholars from around the globe to discuss emergent ethical implications of the new genomic sciences. The conference was put together by the UCSC Science and Justice Working Group and supported by numerous groups and organizations inside as well as outside UCSC.
In Fall 2007 I initiated the "Energy Worlds" Colloquium Series as part of the UCSC SJWG. Energy Worlds is now an officially established subdivision of the UCSC SJWG.
Additional Formal Organizations and Alliances
Political Ecology Society (PESO), member
Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), member
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, member
Alpha Kappa Delta National Sociology Honor Society, member
Golden Key International Honor Society, member
National Black Graduate Student Association, Western Region, member
UCSC Black/African Student Alliance, member
UCSC Black Graduate Student Association, member
UCSC Science Studies Cluster, member
UCSC Sociology Graduate Students of Color Caucus (SGSCC)
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), member
ASA Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology, member
ASA Section on Environment and Technology, member
ASA Section on Law and Society, member
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| Education History | |
B.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2004: Sociology (minor in American Indian Nations Studies), VPI Commonwealth Scholar, Summa Cum Laude
M.A., Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, 2007
Thesis: "Environmental Regulation, Public Credibility, & Boundary Work: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 2005 Mountaintop Coal Mining Environmental Impact Statement"
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| Selected Publications | |
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Williams, T. "Environmental Regulation, Public Credibility, and Boundary Work: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 2005 Mountaintop Coalmining EIS". Bio-X: New Iterations of Lively Bodies, Northern UC Science Studies Graduate Student Conference. UC Santa Cruz, February 23, 2007. |
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