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Environment and Society - Nuclear Renaissance

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Sociology
Virtual
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Date
Nov 29, 2021   11:00 am  
Speaker
Kate Pride Brown, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of History and Sociology
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Originating Calendar
Department of Sociology

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Kate Pride Brown from Georgia Tech will be presenting on Environment and Society - Nuclear Renaissance.

Bio: "Bio:Kate Pride Brown (PhD Vanderbilt University 2015) is an environmental and political sociologist whose research focuses on a range of issues, including environmental activism in Russia and conservation policy in the United States. She received her doctoratefrom Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Her book, Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization(Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the conflict between local and transnational environmentalists, multinational corporations, and the Russian government over the future of Lake Baikal, the largest, deepest and oldest freshwater lake on Earth. While she continues to study environmental issues in Russia, especially around Lake Baikal, Dr. Brown has also published reseach on water and energy politics and policy in theUnited States. She is currently studying the "nuclear renaissance" in the southeastern United States. Among other honors, she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, and funding from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Her research has appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, Ethnography, Memory Studies, Nature and Culture, Research in Political Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Water Policyand WIREs Water."

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