Dr. Michael Carolan
EDUCATION
2002 PhD, Iowa State University, Sociology
1999 MS, Iowa State University, Rural Sociology
1997 BA, University of Iowa, Sociology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2007-present 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 Department, Wageningen University
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2008-present Core Team Member (Founding Member), Livestock and Environment Institute (LEI), Colorado State University
2008-present Advisory Board Member, Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future (ISEOF), Colorado State University.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Technology and Scientific Knowledge, Environmental Policy, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Food Systems and Agriculture
RECENT PUBLISHED WORKS
Referred Journal Articles:
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming. The Problems with Patents: A Less Than Optimistic Reading of the Future, Development and Change
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming. The Mutability of Biotechnology Patents: From Unwieldy Products of Nature to Purified “Object/s”, Theory, Culture and Society
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming The Cost and Benefits of Biofuels: A Review of Recent Peer-Reviewed Research and a Sociological Look Ahead, Environmental Practice
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming Ethanol versus Gasoline: The Contestation and Closure of a Socio-Technical System in the United States, Social Studies of Science
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming A Sociological Look at Biofuels: Ethanol in the Early Decades of the 20th Century and Lessons for Today, Rural Sociology
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming This is not a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Power of Maps and Other Images in the Environmental Sciences, Society and Natural Resources
Carolan, Michael S. forthcoming I Do Therefore There is: Enlivening Socio-Environmental Theory, Environmental Politics
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 Is it a Distinct Subspecies? Preble’s Mouse and the ‘Best Available Science’ Mandate of the Endangered Species Act, Society and Natural Resources 21(10), pp. 944-51.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 Constructing the “Pure” Inventor: Individual, Collective, and Corporate Authorship within Patent Law, New Genetics and Society 27(4), pp. 301-10.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 From Patent Law to Regulation: The Ontological Gerrymandering of Biotechnology, Environmental Politics 17(5), pp. 749-65.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 Making Patents and Intellectual Property Work: The Asymmetrical Harmonization of TRIPS, Organization and Environment 21(3), pp. 295-310.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 The More-Than- Representational Knowledge/s of Countryside: How We Think As Bodies, Sociologia Ruralis 48(4), pp. 408-22.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 The Bright and Blindspots of Science: Why Objective Science is not Enough to Resolve Environmental Controversies, Critical Sociology 34(4), pp. 725-40.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 Democratizing Knowledge: Sustainable and Conventional Agricultural Field Days as Divergent Democratic Forms, Science, Technology and Human Values 33(4), pp. 508-528.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 When Good Smells Go Bad: A Socio-Historical Understanding of Agricultural Odor Pollution, Environment and Planning A 40(5), pp. 1235-49.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 The Politics in Environmental Science: Examining the Endangered Species Act and the Preble’s Mouse Controversy, Environmental Politics 17(3), pp. 449-465.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008. The Multidimensionality of Environmental Problems: The GMO Controversy and the Limits of Scientific Materialism, Environmental Values 17, pp. 67-82.
Carolan, Michael S. 2008 An Ecological Politics of Everyday Life: Placing Flesh on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy in Search of “Green” Possibilities, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 12(1), pp. 51-73.
Carolan, Michael S. 2007 Mapping Biotechnology: From Epistemic Artifacts to Geographies of Control, Nature and Culture 2, pp. 115-38.
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.
Carolan, Michael S., 2004, Ontological Politics: Mapping a Complex Environmental Problem, Environmental Values, 13, pp. 497-522.
Carolan, Michael S., 2004, Unmasking the Commodity Chain, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 16, pp. 193-199.
Carolan, Michael S., Diane Mayerfeld, Michael M. Bell, and Rick Exner, 2004, Rented Land: Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 59, pp. 70A-75A.
Carolan, Michael S., 2004, Ecological Modernization Theory: What about Consumption?, Society and Natural Resources, 17, pp. 247-260
Carolan, Michael S., 2004, Ecological Modernization and Consumption: A Reply to Mol and Spaargaren, Society and Natural Resources, 17, pp. 267-270.
