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Rudy, Alan

FACULTY

Biography

Dr. Rudy is the Sociology Program Coordinator. 

More about Alan Rudy

Alan P. Rudy, 2019, "On Misunderstanding the Second Contradiction Thesis." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 30(4): 17-35.

Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkley-Novartis Controversy. Alan Rudy et al. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2007.

"Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrariansd and Beyond.: Pp. 124-142 in Jules Pretty, et al. (eds.) Sage Handbook on Environment and Society. 2007.

"Environmental Sociological Pedagogy When Nature is Uncertain." American Behavioral Scientist. 51(4): 495-515. 2007.

Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz, 1995

M.A., University of California-Santa Cruz, 1991

B.A., Swarthmore College, 1984

Research interests lie in the areas of hybrid environmental social theory, the overlapping politics of nature, labor and community and regional agricultural studies - most often in the American Southwest.

Courses Taught

SOC 100 Introductory Sociology

SOC 301 Sociological Theory

SOC 317 Sociology of Gender

SOC 370 Global Environmental Issues