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Scott Frickel (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 2000) is a political sociologist with strong interests in the politics of knowledge as it intersects envir onment, social movements, state theory, academic culture, and science and technology. His empirical work focuses on scientific expertise and activism, the environmental state, environmental justice, and the political economy of knowledge systems. Other cu rrent interests include scientific/intellectual movements, public sociology, and interdisciplinarity. He is the author of Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology (Rutgers, 2004), which received the Robert J. Merton Publication Award from the ASA section on Science, Knowledge and Technology (2006) and Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA section on Environment and Technology (2005). Among his other recent publications are The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power (Wisconsin, 2006); “A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements,” American Sociological Review 2005; and “Katrina, Con tamination, and the Unintended Organization of Ignorance,” Technology in Society forthcoming. PublicationsRecent Books
Recent ArticlesScott Frickel and M. Bess Vincent. (Forthcoming). “Katrina, Contamination, and the Unintended Organization of Ignorance,” Scott Frickel and Neil Gross. (2005).“A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements,” American Sociolog ical Review, 70:204-232. Scott Frickel. (2004). “Just Science?: Organizing Scientist Activism is the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement,” Science as Cu lture, 13(4):449-469.
Courses, 2006Sociology 160: Environmental Sociology
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