Department of Sociology

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Dr. Michael Carolan

Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology, Iowa State University, 2002

  • Dissertation: “Trust and Sustainable Agriculture: The Construction and Application of an Integrative Theory”

Master of Science, Rural Sociology, Iowa State University, 1999

  • Thesis: “Trends of Specialization and Scale Increases: A Micro/Macro Analysis of Agriculture in Iowa”

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of Iowa, 1997

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • 2007 - Associate Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
  • 2004/2007 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
  • 2002/2004 - Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies,
    Whitman College
  • 2002 - Research Fellow, Environmental Policy/Sociology Department,
    Wageningen University

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Sociology of Risk, Environmental Policy, Sociology of Food Systems and Agriculture

PUBLISHED WORKS (Last Three Years)
Carolan, Michael S. (conditionally accepted) The Multidimensionality of Environmental Problems: The GMO Controversy and the Limits of Scientific Materialism, Environmental Values

Carolan, Michael S (conditionally accepted) “This is not a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Power of Maps and Other Images in the Environmental Sciences,” Society and Natural Resources

Carolan, Michael S (conditionally accepted) “From Patent Law to Regulation: The Ontological Gerrymandering of Biotechnology,” Environmental Politics

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “I Do Therefore There is: Enlivening Socio-Environmental Theory”, Environmental Politics

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “Democratizing Knowledge: Sustainable and Conventional Agricultural Field Days as Divergent Democratic Forms,” Science, Technology and Human Values

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “It is a Distinct Subspecies? Preble’s Mouse and the ‘Best Available Science’ Mandate of the Endangered Species Act,” Society and Natural Resources

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “The Politics in Environmental Science:
Examining the Endangered Species Act and the Preble’s Mouse Controversy,” Environmental Politics

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “The Bright and Blindspots of Science: Why Objective Science is not Enough to Resolve Environmental Controversies,” Critical Sociology

Carolan, Michael S. (forthcoming) “When Good Smells Go Bad:  A Socio-Historical Understanding of Agricultural Odor Pollution,” Environment and Planning A

Carolan, Michael S. 2007 Mapping Biotechnology: From Epistemic Artifacts to Geographies of Control, Nature and Culture in press

Carolan, Michael S. 2007 Introducing the Concept of Tactile Space: Creating Lasting Social and Environmental Commitments, Geoforum 38, pp 1264-1275.

Carolan, Michael S. 2007 Making Scents out of Changing Spatial Geographies: A Closer Look at the Animal-Human-Fecal Relationship, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 12, pp. 397-407.

Carolan, Michael S. 2007 Saving Seed, Saving Culture: A Case Study of a Heritage Seed Bank. Society and Natural Resources 20, 739-50.

Carolan, Michael S. 2007 The Precautionary Principle and Traditional Risk Assessment: Rethinking How We Assess and Mitigate Environmental Threats, Organization and Environment, 20, pp. 5-24

Carolan, Michael S. 2007. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Flood Management Policy in the United States. Environmental Politics,16, pp. 36-51.

Carolan, Michael S. 2006, Scientific Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Why Science Needs Values, Environmental Sciences: The Journal of Integrative Environmental Research, 3, pp. 229 - 237.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, The Values and Vulnerabilities of Metaphors within the Environmental Sciences, Society and Natural Resources, 19, pp. 921 - 930.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Sustainable Agriculture, Science, and the Co-Production of ‘Expert’ Knowledge: The Value of Interactional Expertise, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 11, pp. 421-31.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Conserving Nature, but to what End? A Look at Conservation Policies and the Ecologies they Support, Organization and Environment, 19, pp. 153-70.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Do you See What I See?  Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Sociology. 71, pp. 232-60.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Ecological Representation in Deliberation: The Contribution of Tactile Spaces, Environmental Politics, 15, pp. 345-61.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Science, Expertise, and the Democratization of the Decision-Making Process, Society and Natural Resources, 19, pp. 661-8.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Social Change and the Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge Claims: Whose Truth do you Trust in regard to Sustainable Agriculture?, Agriculture and Human Values, 23, pp. 270-85.

Carolan, Michael S., 2006, Risk, Trust and ‘The Beyond’ of the Environment: A Brief Look at the Recent Case of Mad Cow Disease in the United States. Environmental Values, 15, pp. 233-52.

Carolan, Michael S., 2005, Society, Biology, and Ecology: Bringing Nature back into Sociology’s Disciplinary Narrative through Critical Realism, Organization and Environment, 18, pp. 393-421. 

Carolan, Michael S., 2005, Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture on Rented Land: An Examination of Contesting Social Fields, Rural Sociology, 70, pp. 387-413.

Carolan, Michael S., 2005, The Disciplining of Nature: The Homogenizing and Constraining Forces of Anti-Markets on the Food Chain, Environmental Values, 14, pp. 363-87.

Carolan, Michael S., 2005, Realism without Reductionism: Toward an Ecologically Embedded Sociology, Human Ecology Review, 12, pp. 1-20.

Carolan, Michael S., 2005, The Conspicuous Body: Capitalism, Consumerism, Class, and Consumption, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, 9, pp. 82-111.

Manuscript Referee for the Following
Society and Natural Resources, Associate Editor, 2005-present
McGraw-Hill Publishing (Specialist Reviewer & Specialist Consultant)
Prentice Hall
Pearson Publishing
W.W. Norton & Company
Roxbury Publishing Company
American Sociological Review
Current Anthropology
Sothern Rural Sociology
Organization and Environment
Geoforum
Polity
Rural Sociology
Human Ecology Review
Environmental Values
Agriculture and Human Values
Public Understanding of Science
The Sociological Quarterly
Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion
Social Science Journal
Social Problems
Environmental Politics
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

page last revised on 31 October, 2007

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