My scholarly agenda encompasses environmental and community sociology, resource dilemmas, cities, human-animal relations, and culture. Using an ethnographic approach, I examine how people’s relationships with the environment and animals shape, and are shaped by, the social world. My first book, "The Global Pigeon," examined what I call "the social experience of animals"--that is, how our interactions with animals are mediated by ideas about nature, culture, and cities. I am currently working on a book, based on fieldwork in North Central Pennsylvania, on how shale gas extraction--aka fracking--impacts rural community life. I also write about ethnographic methods.
Colin Jerolmack
Department Chair of Environmental Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology, Environmental Studies
Ph.D. 2009, M.A. 2005 (Sociology), City University of New York
B.S. 2000 (Psychology), Drexel University
Ethnography; urban communities; environmental sociology; animals and society; culture; health; social theory.
BOOKS
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The Global Pigeon (2013), University of Chicago Press Approaches to Ethnography (2017), Oxford University Press
Jerolmack, Colin and Nina Berman. 2016. "Fracking Communities." Public Culture 28(2).
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Jerolmack, Colin and Iddo Tavory. 2014. "Molds and Totems: Nonhumans and the Constitution of the Social Self." Sociological Theory 32(1): 64-77.
Jerolmack, Colin. 2007. "Animal Practices,
Animals and Society
Environmental Justice and Inequality
Environment and Society
Research and Writing Introduction to Sociology
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy, Harvard University [2008-2010]
Contact Information
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