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Curriculum Vitae Richard York October, 2010

Department of University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1291 Phone: 541-346-5064 Fax: 541-346-5026 E-Mail: [email protected] Research website: http://stirpat.org/

Employment Core Faculty September 2009 –. . University of Oregon Associate Professor September 2007 –. Sociology. University of Oregon Assistant Professor September 2002 – September 2007. Sociology. University of Oregon.

Education Ph.D. 2002. Sociology. Washington State University. M.S. 1997. Environmental Studies. Bemidji State University. B.S. 1994. (Minor: Women’s Studies). Southern Oregon State College.

Research and Teaching Interests , , and Ecological of the World-System Philosophy, , and Sociology of Science Animals and (//Sociozoology) Research Methods and Statistics

Awards Outstanding Publication Award. 2007. Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. Award received for a series of three articles noted below under Publications.

William Piche Award in Arts and Sciences ($15,000). 2006. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon. Award received for “excellence in teaching, superior scholarship, and dedicated service.”

Outstanding Publication Award. 2004. Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. Award received for a series of four articles noted below under Publications.

1 Journal Editorships Co-Editor of Organization & Environment, a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal published by Sage (http://www.coba.usf.edu/jermier/journal.htm). January, 2006 –. Guest Co-Editor. 2008. “Beyond Capitalist Ecology.” Monthly Review 60(6). Guest Co-Editor. 2008. “Ecology: The Moment of Truth.” Monthly Review 60(3). • Translated into a Turkish edition of Monthly Review (January 2009). Guest Co-Editor. 2005. “Special Issue on the Environment and the Treadmill of Production, Part II: Dimensions of the Treadmill of Production in Environmental Sociology.” Organization & Environment 18(1). Guest Co-Editor. 2004. “Special Issue on the Environment and the Treadmill of Production.” Organization & Environment 17(3).

Other Editorships Topic Editor (Environmental Sociology) of the Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/). March, 2007 –.

Publications (Student collaborators are underlined)

Books York, Richard and Brett Clark. In press. The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould. New York: Monthly Review Press. Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2010. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. New York: Monthly Review Press. • Chapter 7 reprinted: Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2010. “Capitalism and the Curse of Energy Efficiency: The Return of the Jevons Paradox.” Monthly Review 62(6). Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2008. The Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism vs. Creationism from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Monthly Review Press. • Chapter 5 reprinted with an introduction: Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2008. “Marx’s Critique of Heaven and Critique of Earth.” Monthly Review 60(5): 22-42. Translated and reprinted in the Portuguese edition of Monthly Review (October 2008).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. Forthcoming. “Environmentally Efficient Well-being: Is There a ?” Applied . York, Richard and Christina Ergas. Forthcoming. “Women’s Status and World-System Position: An Exploratory Analysis.” Journal of World-Systems Research. York, Richard. Forthcoming. “Three Lessons from Trends in CO2 Emissions and Energy Use in the United States.” Society and Natural Resources. York, Richard, Christina Ergas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2011. “It’s a Material World: Trends in Material Extraction in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan.” Nature and Culture 6(2). York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2010. “Critical Materialism: Science, Technology, and

2 Environmental .” Sociological Inquiry 80(3): 475-499. York, Richard. 2010. “The Paradox at the Heart of Modernity: The Carbon Efficiency of the Global Economy.” International Journal of Sociology 40(2): 6-22. Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Richard York. 2010. “Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia.” 75(1): 111-143. Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2009. “Capitalism and 350: The Political Economy of Global Climate Change.” Development and Change 40(6): 1085-1097. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2009. “A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the in China, India, Japan and the United States, 1961-2003.” Journal of World-Systems Research XV(2): 134-146. York, Richard and Philip Mancus. 2009. “Critical Human Ecology: Historical Materialism and Natural .” 27(2): 122-149. Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. 2009. “Environmentally Efficient Well- being: Rethinking Sustainability as the Relationship between Human Well-being and Environmental Impacts.” Human Ecology Review 16(1): 114-123. Longo, Stefano and Richard York. 2009. “Structural Influences on Water Withdrawals: An Exploratory Macro-Comparative Analysis.” Human Ecology Review 16(1): 75-83. Clausen, Rebecca and Richard York. 2008. “Global Biodiversity Decline of Marine and Freshwater Fish: A Cross-National Analysis of Economic, Demographic, and Ecological Influences.” Research 37(4): 1310-1320. York, Richard. 2008. “De-Carbonization in Former Soviet Republics, 1992-2000: The Ecological Consequences of De-Modernization.” Social Problems 55(3): 370-390. Dunlap, Riley E. and Richard York. 2008. “The Globalization of Environmental Concern and the Limits of the Post-Materialist Values Explanation: Evidence from Four Cross- National Surveys.” The Sociological Quarterly 49(3): 529-563. Clausen, Rebecca and Richard York. 2008. “ and Marine Biodiversity: Influence of Human on Decline of Marine Trophic Levels.” Conservation Biology 22(2): 458-466. Longo, Stefano and Richard York. 2008. “Agricultural Exports and the Environment: A Cross- National Study of Fertilizer and Pesticide Consumption.” Rural Sociology 73(1): 82-104. Clark, Brett, John Bellamy Foster, and Richard York. 2007. “The Critique of Intelligent Design: Epicurus, Marx, Darwin, and Freud and the Materialist Defense of Science.” Theory and Society 36(6): 515-546. York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2007. “The Problem with Prediction: Contingency, Emergence, and the Reification of Projections.” The Sociological Quarterly 48(4): 713-743. York, Richard. 2007. “Structural Influences on Energy Production in South and East Asia, 1971-2002.” Sociological Forum 22(4): 532-554. York, Richard. 2007. “Demographic Trends and Energy Consumption in , 1960-2025.” Social Science Research 36(3): 855-872. York, Richard and Philip Mancus. 2007. “Diamond in the Rough: Reflections on Guns, Germs, and Steel.” Human Ecology Review 14(2): 157-162. Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. 2007. “Driving the Human Ecological Footprint.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(1): 13-18. • The order of authorship is alphabetical. York, Richard. 2006. “Ecological Paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the Paperless Office.” Human Ecology Review 13(2): 143-147.

3 • Translated and reprinted in the Hungarian journal Kovász XII (1-2): 5-15 (2008). • Hungarian translation reprinted in Munkácsy, B. (ed.): Az energiagazdálkodás és az emberi tényező (Energy and the Human Factor), pp. 111-122. Szigetszentmiklós: Környezeti Nevelési Hálózat Országos Egyesület (2008). York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2006. “Marxism, , and Scientific Sociology: Social Gravity and Historicity.” The Sociological Quarterly 47(3): 425-450. • Received the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2005. “Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift.” Theory and Society 34(4): 391-428. • Received the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2005. “Dialectical Materialism and Nature: An Alternative to Economism and Deep Ecology.” Organization & Environment 18(3): 318-337. • Received the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. York, Richard. 2005. “Kyoto Protocol Participation: A Demographic Explanation.” Population Research and Policy Review 24(5): 513-526. Norgaard, Kari and Richard York. 2005. “Gender Equality and State .” Gender & Society 19(4): 506-522. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2004. “The Ecological Footprint Intensity of National Economies.” Journal of 8(4): 139-154. Rosa, Eugene A., Richard York, and Thomas Dietz. 2004. “Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Impacts.” Ambio 33(8): 509-512. York, Richard and Marcia Hill Gossard. 2004. “Cross-National Meat and Fish Consumption: Exploring the Effects of Modernization and Ecological Context.” 48(3): 293-302. York, Richard. 2003. “Cross-National Variation in the Size of Passenger Car Fleets: A Study in Environmentally Significant Consumption.” Population and Environment 25(2): 119-140. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. “STIRPAT, IPAT, and ImPACT: Analytic Tools for Unpacking the Driving Forces of Environmental Impacts.” Ecological Economics 46(3): 351-365. • Received the 2004 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2003. “Key Challenges to Theory: Institutional Efficacy, Case Study Evidence, Units of Analysis, and the Pace of Eco-Efficiency.” Organization & Environment 16(3): 273-288. • Received the 2004 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. • Most cited article ever published in Organization & Environment (http://oae.sagepub.com/). York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. “A Rift in Modernity? Assessing the Anthropogenic Sources of Global Climate Change with the STIRPAT Model.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23(10): 31-51. Gossard, Marcia Hill and Richard York. 2003. “Social Structural Influences on Meat

4 Consumption.” Human Ecology Review 10(1): 1-9. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. “Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity.” American Sociological Review 68(2): 279- 300. • Received the 2004 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. • Determined by Thomson-ISI® to be one of the most cited (top 1%) recent articles in the general social sciences and featured, along with an interview of York, in April, 2005 as a “Fast Breaking Paper” on the ESI Special Topics Website (http://esi-topics.com). • Reprinted in Environment (Sage Publications, 2006), edited by Jules Pretty. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2002. “Bridging with : Plasticity of Population, Affluence, and Technology.” Social Science Quarterly 83(1): 18-34. • Received the 2004 Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Other Journal Articles, Essays, Comments, and Replies Rosa, Eugene A., Thomas Dietz, and Richard York. 2010. “Population and Consumption – A Response to Meyerson.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8(2): 65-66. Clark, Brett, Richard York, and John Bellamy Foster. 2009. “Darwin’s Worms and the Skin of the Earth: An Introduction to Charles Darwin’s The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits (Selections).” Organization & Environment 22(3): 338-350. York, Richard, Brett Clark, and John Bellamy Foster. 2009. “Capitalism in Wonderland.” Monthly Review 61(1): 1-18. • Translated into Russian, Vpered (http://vpered.org.ru/), July 6, 2009. • Translated and reprinted in the Portuguese edition of Monthly Review (May 2009). • Translated and reprinted in the Chinese journal Marxism and Reality, no. 5, 2009. York, Richard. 2009. “The Challenges of Measuring Environmental Sustainability: Comment on ‘Political and Social Foundations for Environmental Sustainability.’” Political Research Quarterly 62(1): 205-208. York, Richard. 2008. “Introduction to the Symposium on Catton and Dunlap’s Foundational Work Establishing an Ecological Paradigm.” Organization & Environment 21(4): 446- 448. Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2008. “Rifts and Shifts: Getting to the Root of Environmental Crises.” Monthly Review 60(6): 13-24. • Translated and reprinted in the Portuguese edition of Monthly Review (November 2008). Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. 2008. “Ecology: The Moment of Truth – An Introduction.” Monthly Review 60(3): 1-11. • Translated and reprinted in the Turkish edition of Monthly Review (January 2009). • Translated and reprinted in the Chinese journal Seeking Truth 36(5): 31-35 (2009). Rosa, Eugene A. Thomas Dietz, and Richard York. 2008. “Technological Progress Must Accelerate to Reduce Global Footprint Overshoot – Response.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(3): 123. York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2007. “Gender and Mathematical Ability: The Toll of Biological Determinism.” Monthly Review 59(6): 7-15.

5 Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2007. “The Restoration of Nature and Biogeography: An Introduction to Alfred Russel Wallace’s ‘Epping Forest’ in 1878.” Organization & Environment 20(2): 213-234. York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2006. “Science and History: A Reply to Turner.” The Sociological Quarterly 47(3): 465-470. York, Richard. 2006. “Goodall’s Light: Twenty Years with The Chimpanzees of Gombe.” Organization & Environment 19(3): 371-374. York, Richard. 2006. “Corporate and Academic Freedom.” MRZine (http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/), January, 24th. York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2006. “Debunking as Positive Science: Reflections in Honor of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man.” Monthly Review 57(9): 3-15. • Translated and reprinted in the Turkish edition of Monthly Review (March 2006). • Translated and reprinted in the Indian journal Bangla Monthly Review (March 2010). York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2005. “Natural History and the Nature of History.” Monthly Review 57(7): 21-29. York, Richard. 2005. “Neo-Paleyism’s Assault on Reason.” MRZine (http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/), October, 4th. York, Richard. 2005. “Hydrogen Hoopla.” MRZine (http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/), August, 22nd. York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2005. “Societal Processes and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions: Comment on ‘Post Industrialization and Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental State.” Social Forces, On-line Rejoinder (http://socialforces.unc.edu/), August. York, Richard. 2005. “Toward a Martian Land Ethic.” Human Ecology Review 12(1): 70-71. Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2005. “Dialectical Nature: Reflections in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Levins and Lewontin’s The Dialectical Biologist.” Monthly Review 57(1): 13-22. York, Richard. 2005. “Homo Floresiensis and Human Equality: Enduring Lessons from Stephen Jay Gould.” Monthly Review 56(10): 14-19. • Translated and reprinted in the Greek edition of Monthly Review (No. 7&8, 2005). • Translated and reprinted in the Indian journal Bangla Monthly Review (March 2010). York, Richard and John Bellamy Foster. 2005. “The Treadmill of Production: Extension, Refinement, and Critique: Introduction to Part II of the Special Issue on the Environment and the Treadmill of Production.” Organization & Environment 18(1): 5-6. York, Richard. 2004. “The Treadmill of (Diversifying) Production.” Organization & Environment 17(3): 355-362. Foster, John Bellamy and Richard York. 2004. “Political Economy and Environmental Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Treadmill of Production.” Organization & Environment 17(3): 293-295. Rosa, Eugene A., Richard York, and Thomas Dietz. 2004. “Reflections on the STIRPAT Research Program.” Environment, Technology, and Society, Summer: 1-2.

Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries, and Other Contributions to Books York, Richard and Riley E. Dunlap. Forthcoming. “Environmental Sociology.” In New Blackwell Companion to Sociology, G. Ritzer, ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

6 York, Richard and Brett Clark. Forthcoming. “Nothing New Under the Sun? The Old False Promise of New Technology.” In , Energy, and the Environment: Crisis of the Modern World-System, P. McMichael, ed. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2010. “Ecological Modernization Theory: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges.” Pp. 77-90 in The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition, M. Redclift and G. Woodgate, eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. 2010. “Human Driving Forces of Global Change: Dominant Perspectives.” Pp. 83-134 in Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability, E.A. Rosa, A. Diekmann, T. Dietz, and C. Jaeger, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Human Footprints on the Global Environment received the 2010 Gerald L. Young Book Award from the Society for Human Ecology. York, Richard. 2009. “The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science.” Pp. 85-94 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, K. A. Gould and T. L. Lewis, eds. Oxford, U.K. Oxford University Press. York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2007. “ and the Environment.” Pp. 1423- 1426 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol. III, G. Ritzer, ed. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing. York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2006. “Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System.” Pp. 119-132 in Globalization and the Environment, edited by Andrew K. Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Press. York, Richard. 2003. “, Technology, and the Environment.” (Syllabus for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level environmental sociology course). Pp. 123-127 in Syllabi and Instructional Material in Environmental Sociology, 5th edition, R. Scarce and M. Mascarenhas eds. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Review Essays York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2005. “The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould.” Critical Sociology 31(1-2): 281-295. York, Richard. 2004. “Humanity and Inhumanity: Toward a Sociology of the Slaughterhouse.” Organization & Environment 17(2): 260-265.

Book and Film Reviews York, Richard. Forthcoming. Review of Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009) by Nicole Shukin. Organization & Environment. York, Richard. Forthcoming. Review of Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez (Oley, PA: Bullfrogfilms, 2008) by Paul Carvalho (producer) and Robert Cornellier (producer and director). York, Richard. 2009. Review of Climate, Affluence, and Culture (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) by Evert Van de Vliert. Human Ecology 37(6): 795-796. York, Richard. 2009. “Gouldiana Rising.” Review of Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life (New York: Oxford University Press) by Warren D. Allmon, Patricia H. Kelley, and Robert M. Ross (eds.). Monthly Review 61(5): 54-56. York, Richard. 2009. Review of Humanity’s Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our

7 Global Environment (New York: Columbia University Press) by Walter K. Dodds. Quarterly Review of Biology 84(1): 93. York, Richard. 2006. “Darwin’s Materialism.” Review of Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life (New York: Norton) by Niles Eldredge. Monthly Review 57(11): 56-60. York, Richard. 2006. Review of Cultures of Environmentalism: Empirical Studies in Environmental Sociology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan) by Steven Yearley. Organization & Environment 19(1): 142-144. York, Richard. 2004. “Manufacturing the Love of Possession.” Review of The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press) by Michael Dawson. Monthly Review 55(9): 60-64. York, Richard. 2004. Review of Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West (Washington, D.C.: Island Press) by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson (eds.). Society and Natural Resources 17(1): 91-93. Rosa, Eugene A. and Richard York. 2003. Review of Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) by Arthur P. J. Mol. American Journal of Sociology 108(4): 920-922. York, Richard. 2002. Review of America’s Private Forests: Status and Stewardship (Washington, D.C.: Island Press) by Constance Best and Laurie A. Wayburn. Society and Natural Resources 15: 553-555.

Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/) Entries as Lead Author: Metabolic Rift, Sociology of the Slaughterhouse, Treadmill of Production Entries as Contributing Author: Jevons Paradox

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Presentations York, Richard. 2009. “Smoke and Mirrors: Capitalism’s ‘Solutions’ to Environmental Crises.” Presented at “Food, Energy, Environment: Crisis of the Modern World-System,” Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton University, October 10th. Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Richard York. 2009. “Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 10th. York, Richard. 2009. “The Carbon Intensity of the Global Economy and the Prospects for De- Carbonization.” Presented at “The Social and Natural Limits of Globalization and the Current Conjuncture,” mini-conference co-sponsored by the Political Economy of the World-System, Environment and Technology, and Sections of the American Sociological Association, with the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the journal Critical Sociology, San Francisco, August 7th. York, Richard and Brett Clark. 2008. “Science, Technology, and Environmental Sustainability: A Critical Perspective.” Presented at “Ecology & Power: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience,” conference hosted by the Human Ecology Division, Lund University, Sweden, September 18th. Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2008. “The Social Metabolic Order of Capital: Rifts, Shifts, and

8 Crises.” Presented at “Ecology & Power: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience,” conference hosted by the Human Ecology Division, Lund University, Sweden, September 17th. York, Richard and Philip Mancus. 2008. “Animals and Kings: A Materialist Foundation for Macro-Anthrozoology.” Presented at the XVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, Bellingham, Washington, September 11th. York, Richard. 2008. “Climate Change and Social Structure.” Presented at “The Long Haul: Navigating the Energy Transition to Limit Climate Change,” conference jointly sponsored by the University of Victoria, Center for , and the U.S. National Science Foundation, Victoria, Canada, August 12th. York, Richard. 2008. “The Sociology of Global Climate Change: What We know and What We Need to Know.” Presented at the National Science Foundation Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change (invited participant), Washington, D.C., May 30th. York, Richard. 2008. “De-problematizing Low Fertility Rates.” Presented at the Public Interest Environmental Conference, Eugene, Oregon, March 9th. Clausen, Rebecca and Richard York. 2007. “Economic Growth and Global Marine Fisheries: Examining Social Structural Influences of Marine Trophic Level Decline.” Presented at the American Fisheries Society Annual Alaska Chapter Conference, Ketchikan, Alaska, November 16th. York, Richard. 2007. “The Ecological Footprints of North and South and the Problems of Sustainability and Equality.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 11th. Clausen, Rebecca and Richard York. 2007. “Global Biodiversity Decline of Marine and Freshwater Fish: A Cross-National Analysis of Social and Ecological Influences.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 12th. York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2007. “China and the Growth of the Global Ecological Footprint, 1961-2002.” Presented at the Beijing International Conference on Environmental Sociology, Renmin University, Beijing, China, June 30th. Longo, Stefano and Richard York. 2006. “Agricultural Exports and the Environment: A Cross- National Study of Fertilizer and Pesticide Consumption.” Presented at the XIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 20th. Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. 2006. “Approaches to Structural Human Ecology (SHE): The STIRPAT Research Program.” Presented at the XIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 20th. York, Richard and Philip Mancus. 2006. “Critical Human Ecology: Historical Materialism and Natural Laws.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 11th. York, Richard. 2005. “De-Carbonization in Post-Soviet States, 1992-1999.” Invited presentation at the Center for the Study of and Ecology, University of Washington, November 4th.

Recent Professional Meeting Facilitation Organizer. Session on “Capitalism and Environmental Decline.” American Sociological

9 Association Annual Meeting.” New York, NY, August, 2007. Panelist. Colloquium on Socioeconomic Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection and the World Resources Institute. Washington, DC, September 29-30, 2005.

Grants • Junior Professorship Development Grant, University of Oregon, 2006. $750. • Junior Professorship Development Grant, University of Oregon, 2005. $750. • Summer Research Award, University of Oregon, 2005. $4500. • Junior Professorship Development Grant, University of Oregon, 2004. $750. • Junior Professorship Development Grant, University of Oregon, 2003. $1000. • New Faculty Award, University of Oregon, 2003. $5000. • The American Sociological Association’s Travel Award Grant (0209367) supported by the National Science Foundation for travel to the XVth World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. $520.

Professional Service Service to the Community Member of the Board of Directors of the Siskiyou Project (a non-profit environmental organization working to protect the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion). 2005-2010

Service to the Discipline Chair of the Research and Policy Committee (elected position) of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2008-2010

Chair of the Publications Committee (elected position) of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2004-2006

Editorial Board Memberships Organization & Environment (2004-2005) Human Ecology Review (2004-) Journal of World-Systems Research (2008-)

Manuscript Reviews: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of , Carbon Balance and Management, Climate Change, Ecological Economics, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Human Ecology Review, International Journal of , International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of World-Systems Research, Organization & Environment, Political Research Quarterly, Population and Environment, Rural Sociology, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, The Sociological Quarterly

Book Proposal Reviews Rowman & Littlefield (2003); Roxbury Publishing Company (2005)

10 Grant Proposal Reviews National Science Foundation (2005)

Service at University of Oregon Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Degree Committee 2010-2012

Graduate Program Director, Sociology 2010-

Sociology Department Committees: Admissions and Awards Committee 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, Chair 2010-2011; Staff Development Committee 2004-2005, 2006-2007; Qualifying Exam Committee 2003-2004; Executive Committee (elected) 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2009-2010; Course Reduction Committee (elected) 2007-2008, 2009-2010; Sixth-Year Post-Tenure Review Committee (elected), Chair 2007-2008 (three cases), Chair 2009-2010 (one case); Third-Year Pre-Tenure Review Committee (elected), Chair 2009-2010 (one case)

Environmental Studies Program Committees: Executive Committee 2009-; Admissions Committee 2009-2010; Hiring Committee 2010-2011

Dissertation Committees as Chair: Rebecca Clausen (Spring 2008); Eric Edwards (co-chair, Winter 2009); Christina Ergas (ongoing); Andrew Jones (Summer 2006); Tung-Yi Kho (ongoing); Stefano Longo (Spring 2009); Philip Mancus (Spring 2009); Paul Prew (Summer 2005)

Dissertation Committees as Member: Shannon Bell (Summer 2010); Brett Clark (Fall 2006); Seth Crawford (ongoing); Laura Earles (Summer 2007); William Galose, Economics (Summer 2007); Hannah Holleman (ongoing); Mark Hudson (Winter 2007); Patrick Hurley, Environmental Studies (Fall 2004); Ryan Jamil Jonna (ongoing); Nick Malone, (Spring 2007); Wes Shirley (ongoing); Juyeon Son (Spring 2007); Ann Strahm (Winter 2007); Jey Strangefeld (Fall 2006); Lora Vess (Fall 2007); Brian Wolf (Spring 2005)

Comprehensive Exam Committees: Keith Appleby (Winter 2008); Rebecca Clausen (Chair, Spring 2005; Spring 2006); Seth Crawford (Spring 2009); Derek Darves (Fall 2005); Laura Earles (Fall 2003; Spring 2005); Eric Edwards (Winter 2005); Christina Ergas (Chair, Spring 2009); Mark Harmon (Spring 2007); Mark Hudson (Spring 2004); Andrew Jones (Chair, Spring 2003); Ryan Jamil Jonna (Chair, Winter 2006; Spring 2008); Tung-Yi Kho (Chair, Fall 2009); Stefano Longo (Chair, Spring 2005; Spring 2006); Nick Lougee (Chair, Summer 2006); Philip Mancus (Chair, Spring 2005; Spring 2006); Wes Shirley (Spring 2008); Lara Skinner (Chair, Spring 2005); Juyeon Son (Fall 2004; Spring 2005); Bettina Stockton (Spring 2004); Elaine Sun (Summer 2005); Natalie White (Spring 2005)

Master’s Paper Adviser: Martha Camargo (Spring 2010); Matthew Clement (Fall 2009)

Master’s Thesis Committees:

11 Jason Schreiner, Environmental Studies (Spring 2007)

Senior/Honors Thesis (undergraduate) Committees: Nate Sutton (Spring 2004), Andrew Harmon (Winter 2007), Jennifer Surdyk (Winter 2007)

Other Committees: Resource Innovations/Climate Leadership Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee (2009 –) Sustainable Livelihoods Research Working Group (2010 –)

Teaching Experience Introduction in Sociology Graduate Program (SOC 607), Fall 2010 Sociological Theory II (SOC 618), Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2010 Advanced Sociological Methods (SOC 613), Winter 2006 Environmental Sociology (SOC 616), Winter 2003, Spring 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2010 Methods (SOC 311), Winter 2003, Winter 2004, Fall 2004, Summer 2005 Quantitative Methods (SOC 312), Fall 2009, Spring 2010 Environmental Sociology (416/516), Fall 2002, Winter 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2009 Social Inequalities (SOC 207), Spring 2004, Winter 2005, Winter 2006, Fall 2006 Technology and Society (at W.S.U.), Spring 2001 Introduction to Statistics (at W.S.U.), Summer 2000, Summer 2001 Introduction to Sociology (at W.S.U.), Spring 2000

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