Dr. Patricia Widener

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, 2006
M.A., University of New Orleans, 2000
B.S., B.A., University of Kansas, 1990

Research Interests

Environmental Justice
Environmental Health
Oil Conflict & Disasters
Transnational Advocacy
Human Trafficking

Courses

Poverty & Society
Global Social Change
Health & Social Inequalities
Environmental Justice
Environment & Global Conflict (graduate seminar)
Global Health Inequalities (graduate seminar)

Publications

Widener, P.2009. "Oil Tourism: Disasters and Destinations in Ecuador and the Philippines." Sociological Inquiry, 79(3): 266-288

Widener, P. 2009. "Global Links and Environmental Flows: Oil Disputes in Ecuador."
Global Environmental Politics, 9(1): 31-57

Widener, P. and Valerie Gunter. 2007. "Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective." Society and Natural Resources, 20: 767-783

Widener, P. 2007. "Benefits and Burdens of Transnational Campaigns: A Comparison of
Four Oil Struggles in Ecuador." Mobilization: An Internationl Quarterly, 12(1): 21-36

Widener, P. 2007. "Oil Conflict in Ecuador: A Photographic Essay." Organization and Environment, 20(1): 84-105

Widener, P. 2000. "Lead Contamintaion in the 1990s and Beyond: A Follow-up" Pp. 258-280, in Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine, eds.
S.Kroll-Smith, V. Gunter and P.Brown. NY: New York University Press.