CV | J. M. Bacon
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
2023 – Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Grinnell College
2018 – 2023
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Grinnell College
2016 – 2017
Instructor, Social Sciences Department, Chadron State College
2009 – 2010
Instructor, English Department, Oregon State University
Education
2018
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy / Sociology, University of Oregon
Producing, Maintaining and Resisting Colonial Ecological Violence: Three Considerations of Settler Colonialism as Eco-Social Structure
2014
M.S. Sociology, University of Oregon
2009
M.A. English, Oregon State University
Areas of Research and Teaching Interest
Environmental sociology, environmental justice, Indigenous studies, sociology of emotions, social movements, qualitative methods
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2024
“Backfire: The Settler-Colonial Logic and Legacy of Smokey Bear.”
Environmental Politics.
1-26. (with K. Vinyeta)
2021
“‘Who Had to Die so I Could Go Camping?’: Shifting non-Native Conceptions of Land and Environment through Engagement with Indigenous Thought and Action.”
Ethics, Policy & Environment
24(3): 250-265.
2020
“Dangerous Pipelines, Dangerous People: Colonial Ecological Violence and Media Framing of Threat in the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict.”
Environmental Sociology
6(2): 142-153.
2019
“Colonial America Today: US Empire and the Political Status of Native American Nations.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History
61(2):301-331. (with M. Norton)
2018
“Settler colonialism as eco-social structure and the production of colonial ecological violence.”
Environmental Sociology
5(1):59-69.
“Recovery Related Group Homes and Disproportionate Environmental Hazard Impacts.” Environmental Justice 11(3):109-113. (with S. M. Cumming)
2017
“‘A lot of catching up’, knowledge gaps and emotions in the development of a tactical collective identity among students participating in solidarity with the Winnemem Wintu.”
Settler Colonial Studies
7(4):441-455
“Environmental Decline and Changing Gender Roles: What Happens to Karuk Masculinity When There Are No Fish?” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 4(1):98-113. (with Kari M. Norgaard and Ron Reed)
Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“Environmental Sociology and Settler Colonialism” in
Environmental Sociology Now.
University of California Press.
2016
“Rush Limbaugh and the Expanding Culture War: Whiteness, Masculinity and Conservative Media Denials of Climate Change and Sexism.” Pp. 36-47 in
Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of race, class and gender.
Godfrey and Torres eds. New York: Routledge.
Textbook Chapters
2024
“Chapter 14 The Environment”
Investigating Social Problems
4th edition. Sage Publications. ed. A. J. Trevino
2021
“Chapter 3 Environmental Problems”
Investigating Social Problems
3rd edition. Sage Publications. ed. A. J. Trevino
2020
“Chapter 7 Emotions of Environmental Justice” (with Kari M. Norgaard)
Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More.
Sage Publications. ed. Michael Mascarenhas
2020
“Chapter 52 Environmental Decline and Changing Gender Roles: What Happens to Karuk Masculinity When There Are No Fish?” (with Kari M. Norgaard and Ron Reed)
Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity
3rd edition. Sage Publications. ed. Susan J Ferguson
Book Reviews
2018
“Book Review: The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection by Dorceta E. Taylor.”
Critical Sociology
44(4–5):827–829.
Works in Progress
“Birds of Many Feathers: A Multispecies Justice Analysis of Shifting Environmental and Social Values among US Birders” (with K. Vinyeta, G. Ward, and J. Rowley) Currently under review
“Pagan Polarizations: Post-Trump Shifts in Pagan Practices and Politics” (with J. Snook)
“Locating the Web of Indigenous-Environmentalist Solidarity: Social Networks, Indigenous Peoples, and the Big Ten Environmental Organizations” (with G. Ward and E. Widmann)
“Place Attachment and Emotion Among Irish Language and Culture Practitioners”
Grants and Awards
2020
Environmental Sociology Early Career Prize
2019
Summer Gaeltacht Award Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange
2018
National Science Foundation Workshop Grant: “Bridging the Gap: A Mini-Conference on Race and the Environment” ($19,227). Team members: Michael Mascarenhas, Jennifer Carrera, Raoul S. Liévanos, Lauren Richter, Elisabeth Wilder, and J.M. Bacon.
2015
Marquina Faculty-Graduate Student Collaboration Award (Matt Norton)
2014
University of Oregon Environmental Studies Outstanding Teaching Award
2013
Marquina Faculty-Graduate Student Collaboration Award (Kari Norgaard)
Selected Talks and Presentations
2024
American Sociological Association, Montreal
Locating the Web of Indigenous-Environmentalist Solidarity: Social Networks, Indigenous
Peoples, and the Big Ten Environmental Organizations (with Graham Ward and Ella
Widmann)
American Sociological Association, Montreal
Birds of Many Feathers: A Multispecies Justice Analysis of Shifting Environmental and Social Values among US Birders with Kirsten Vinyeta, Jordan Rowley, and Graham Ward
Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting
Locating the Web of Indigenous-Environmentalist Solidarity: Social Networks, Indigenous Peoples, and the Big Ten Environmental Organizations with Graham Ward
2023
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
Backfire: The Settler-Colonial Logic and Legacy of Smokey Bear with Kirsten Vinyeta
2023
Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting
Decolonizing Environmental Organizations: Sierra Club Engagement with Indigenous Issues with Noah Guyton, Kate Guiney, and Sydney Cohen
2020
American Sociological Association, Online
W(h)ither “Environmentalists”: Disidentification with Environmentalism across the Mainstream/Radical Divide with Elizabeth Cherry
2020
American Sociological Association, Online
Resilience, Resistance, and the Framing of Threat in the Coverage of DAPL with Kirsten Vinyeta
2019
American Sociological Association, New York
“Who had to die so I could go camping?”: Settler Reflections on Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and Environmentalism.
2019
Canadian Sociological Association, Vancouver
“The environmental movement is kind of like a joke to me” : Changing perceptions of the environmental movement after Indigenous-Settler Solidarity.
2018
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
“Feeling CO2LONIALISM” with Carla May Dhillon
2017
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
“Dangerous Pipelines, Dangerous People: Colonial Ecological Violence and Media Framing of Threat in DAPL Coverage”
2016
American Sociological Association, Seattle
“Environmental Decline and Changing Gender Roles: What Happens to Karuk Masculinity When There Are No Fish” (with Kari Norgaard)
2016
American Sociological Association, Seattle
“Is the United States an Empire?: Evidence from the Political Status of Native American Nations” (with Matthew Norton)
2016
Teaching Effectiveness Program, Eugene, Oregon
Teaching Public Crisis and Controversy: A Panel and Discussion
2015
Canadian Sociological Association, Ottawa
“A lot of us had a lot of catching up to do”: Knowledge Gaps and Emotions in Settler Solidarity”
2015
American Sociological Association, Chicago
Teaching Race, Gender and Colonialism within Environmental Sociology (with Kari Norgaard and Emily Huddart Kennedy)
2015
Rethinking Race in the Anthropocene, Eugene, Oregon
“Decolonization as Response & Genocide as Golden Spike: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the Rhetoric of Universal Risk and Responsibility”
2014
American Sociological Association, San Francisco
“Blame, Shame, and the Complexity of Collective Identity in Settler-Solidarity for Environmental Justice: A Case Study “
Memberships
2014 - Present
American Sociological Association
Sections: Environment and Technology, Sociology of Emotions, Animals and Society, Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations
2015 - Present
Canadian Sociological Association
Teaching
Grinnell College
2018 - Present
SOC 111: Introduction to Sociology
SOC/ANT 291: Methods of Empirical Investigation
SOC 240: Social Movements
SOC 272: Environmental Sociology
SOC 273: Environmental Health
SOC 285: Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 295: Sociology of Climate Change (special topics)
SOC 295: Sexuality, Gender, Race and Environment (special topics)
SOC 295: Sociology of Emotions (special topics)
SOC 295: Sociology of Food & Agriculture (special topics)
SOC 395: Armed Conflict and the Environment (special topics seminar)
SOC 395: Environmental Justice (special topics seminar)
SOC 395: Decolonizing Sociology (special topics seminar)
SOC 395: Indigenous Environmental Movements (special topics)
SOC 499: Mentored Advanced Projects - Decolonizing Environmental Movements 1
SOC 499: Mentored Advanced Projects - Decolonizing Environmental Movements 2
SOC 499: Mentored Advanced Projects - Pagan Polarization
TUT 100: Banned: Challenges to Creative Expression
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advising
2022
Hannah Malicky, “Green Isolation: Exploring the impact of green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic on overall wellbeing.”
2017 – 2018
Dylan Plummer, “Indigenous Erasure in Coverage of Jordan Cove LNG Terminal Debate”
2016 – 2017
Scott Cummings, “Disproportionate Environmental Impacts and Recovery Related Group Homes: Environmental Impacts on Sober Living”