Patricia Widener

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Teaching and Research Interests

Environmental Sociology
Environmental Justice
Environment & Global Conflict (graduate seminar)
Natural Resource Contention
Environmental Health
Local & Global Health Inequalities
Human Trafficking
Social Movements & Transnational Networks
Globalization
Public Sociology
Social Change
Poverty & Society

Publications

“Benefits and Burdens of Transnational Campaigns: A Comparison of Four Oil Struggles in Ecuador.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 12(1): 21-36. [2007]

“Oil Conflict in Ecuador: A Photographic Essay.” Organization and Environment. 20(1): 84-105. [2007]

“Lead Contamination in the 1990s and Beyond: A Follow-up” Pp. 258-80, in Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine, eds. S. Kroll-Smith, V. Gunter and P. Brown. NY: New York University Press. [2000]