Sociology Faculty Directory
Andrew Jorgenson
Professor, Department of Sociology
Andrew Jorgenson
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn 426C
Telephone: 617-552-4130
Email: andrew.jorgenson@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Research Interests
Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Sustainability Science, Sociology of Development
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS)
***Underlined Coauthors Were Students at the Time of Publication
Jorgenson Andrew, Ryan Thombs, Brett Clark, Jennifer Givens, Terrence Hill, Xiaorui Huang, Orla Kelly, and Jared Fitzgerald. In Press. “Inequality Amplifies the Negative Association Between Life Expectancy and Air Pollution: A Cross-National Longitudinal Study.” Science of the Total Environment doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143705
Grant, Don, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer. 2020. Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Terrence Hill, Brett Clark, Ryan Thombs, Peter Ore, Kelly Balistreri, and Jennifer Givens. 2020. “Power, Proximity, and Physiology: Does Income Inequality and Racial Composition Amplify the Impacts of Air Pollution on Life Expectancy in the United States?" Environmental Research Letters 15:024013.
Fisher, Dana, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2019. “Ending the Stalemate: Toward a Theory of Anthro-Shift.” Sociological Theory 37:342-362.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Shirley Fiske, Klaus Hubacek, Jia Li, Tom McGovern, Torben Rick, Juliet Schor, William Solecki, Richard York, and Ariela Zycherman. 2019. “Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change.” WIREs Climate Change 10:e554.
Fitzgerald, Jared, Juliet Schor, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2018. “Working Hours and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States, 2007-2013.” Social Forces 96:1851-1874.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Thomas Dietz, and Orla Kelly. 2018. “Inequality, Poverty, and the Carbon Intensity of Human Well-Being in the United States: A Sex-Specific Analysis.” Sustainability Science 13:1167-1174.
Grant, Don, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer. 2018. “Pathways to Carbon Pollution: The Interactive Effects of Global, Political, and Organizational Factors on Power Plants’ CO2 Emissions.” Sociological Science 5:58-92.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Wesley Longhofer, Don Grant, Amanda Sie, and Vincentas Giedraitis. 2017. “The Effects of Economic and Political Integration on Power Plants’ Carbon Emissions in the Post-Soviet Transition Nations.” Environmental Research Letters 12:044009.
Longhofer, Wesley, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2017. “Decoupling Reconsidered: Does World Society Integration Influence the Relationship Between the Environment and Economic Development?” Social Science Research 65:17-29.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Juliet Schor, and Xiaorui Huang. 2017. “Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-Level Analysis, 1997-2012.” Ecological Economics 134: 40-48.
Mahutga, Matthew, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2016. “Production Networks and Varieties of Institutional Change: The Inequality Upswing in Post-Socialism Revisited.” Social Forces 94:1711-1741.
Jorgenson, Andrew, and Brett Clark. 2016. “The Temporal Stability and Developmental Differences in the Environmental Impacts of Militarism: The Treadmill of Destruction and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions.” Sustainability Science 11:505-514.
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS (FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS)
2020 Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, Section on Environmental Sociology, American Sociological Association.
2019 Second Place, 2017-2018 Climate Change Article Prize, Climate Change Study Group, British Sociological Association
2018 Co-PI, (with Don Grant [Co-PI] and Wesley Longhofer [Co-PI]), National Science Foundation Research Grant, “How Policy Affects Power Plants in an Age of Experimentalist Governance” (total award: 242,000 USD)
2018-2019 Chair, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association (elected position)
2016-2017 Chair, Environmental Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (elected position)
2016 Distinguished Scholar, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD