03.10.2016 Beamish

Thomas D. Beamish

Department of Sociology • University of California, Davis • One Shields Ave. • Davis, CA • 95616 •

Wk: 530 754 1036 • Fax: 530 752 0783 • tdbeamish@ucdavis.edu • http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/people/tdbeamis

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2015-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

2006-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

2003/2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

2001/2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

1999/2001 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Governmental Affairs & Graduate School of Management,

University of California, Davis

EDUCATION

1999 Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1992 M.A. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1990 B.A. Department of Sociology, Western Washington University

1990 Minor Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, Western Washington University

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Risks, Hazards, & Environment; Community Politics and Social Movements; Institutions, Organizations,

& Economy; Science, Technology, & Innovation Studies

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

2015 Dean's Innovation Award for exceptional innovation in research and scholarship, College of Letters and

Science, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Davis.

2014 Mentoring Award, Mentorships for Undergraduate Research in Agriculture, Letters, and Science

(MURALS). Office of Student Affairs, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis.

2012/2013 Environmental Governance and Climate Change. (Co-organizer w/ Debbie A. Niemeier and Ryken

Grattet) National Science Foundation, Grant Number #1244252, Law and Social Sciences Directorate,

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.

2012 Grant recipient, California Cultures Initiative, Summer Research Support, “Making the Invisible, Visible:

Comparing California and EU Response to Crescive Environmental and Health Risks.” Davis

Humanities Institute, University of California, Davis. Summer/Fall.

2011/2012 Grant recipient, (w/ Julie Sze) California the Great Exception? Conversations on Environment, Health &

Risk. Part of the California Cultural Initiative’s, “Thinking Regionally Research Seminars,” Davis

Humanities Center, University of California, Davis. Fall/Winter/Spring.

2011/2012 Grant recipient, Grant in Aid of Research, Academic Senate, University of California, Davis:

2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004.

2009 Collaboration Award, Co-Chair, Project Team, implementation of UC Davis’ Wide Area Rapid

Notification System (WARN), Office of Administration, University of California, Davis.

2005-2009 Grant recipient, “Biosafety or Biohazard: Organizational Pursuit and Community Response to a

Safety and Preparedness Initiative.” National Science Foundation. Grant Number #0509812, Division

of Civic, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Subsection Infrastructural Systems Management

and Hazard Response, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.

2004 Excellence in Education Award. Associated Students, Academic Affairs Commission, University of

California, Davis.

2003-2005 Research Fellowship, Hazards and Disaster Research Fellows, National Science Foundation,

Arlington, VA. (see http://www.ncsu.edu/project/nextgen/ )

2003/2004 Grant Recipient, Teaching Resources Center Instructional Grant, University of California,

Davis.

2003/2004 Grant Recipient, Junior Faculty Research Grant, Institute for Governmental Affairs, University

of California, Davis.

2002/2003 Speakers Series Grant Funds, The Georgia Workshop on Culture and Institutions, Faculty

Seminar Program, Center for Humanities and Arts, the University of Georgia.

2000 Best Dissertation of 2000, “Silent Spill.” Dissertation Competition, Organizations and the Natural

Environment, Academy of Management.

1999-2001 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley Labs,

California Institute of Energy Efficiency in conjunction with the California Energy Commission. Project

title: Energy, Technology, and Organization in the Commercial Construction Industry. Principal investigators Nicole

W. Biggart (UCD), Loren Lutzenhiser (WSU) and Rick Kunkle (WSU). Project report is available at

http://ciee.ucop.edu/ and http://ciee.ucop.edu/docs/market_struc.pdf

1999 Spaulding Dissertation Endowment, “Silent Spill,” Department of Sociology, University of California,

Santa Barbara.

1996-1998 Research Fellowship, University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Fellowship, Project

title: “Silent Spill: Responsible Party, Remedial Agency, and Community Response to a Case of

Creeping Contamination.” The Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, University of

California, Davis.

1991/1992 Grant Recipient, Project title: “Collective Recollections: The Creation and Effect of Collective

Memory on War Time Dissent.” Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Grant, University of

California, San Diego. See, Journal of Social Problems “Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War

and the Making of Collective Memory” Vol. 42, No. 3. (August 1995): 344-360.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Community at Risk? Biodefense and the Collective Search for Security. (2015) Stanford University Press: Palo

Alto, California.

Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis. (2002) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8706

• Excerpted in Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy. Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. (2005)

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Excerpted in Ron Matson (ed.). The Spirit of Sociology: A Reader (Penguin Academics Series). (2005) Allyn

& Bacon.

Articles & Chapters

Capital and Carbon: The Shifting Common Good Justification of Energy Regimes. (w/ Nicole W.

Biggart) Research in the Sociology of Organizations. (Forthcoming 2017).

“Climate Change and Legitimate Governance: Land Use and Transportation Law and Policy In

California.” (w/ Deb Niemeier and Ryken Grattet.) The Brooklyn Law Review. Vol. 82, No. 2

(Forthcoming 2017).

Deb Niemeier, Ryken Grattet, & Thomas D. Beamish. 2015. “Blueprinting for Climate Change? When

Promise of Regional Transportation and Land Use Planning Outruns Performance Outcomes." (w/

Deb Niemeier and Ryken Grattet) Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy. Volume 17, pp.

1600-1617.

“Institutionalization: Social Heuristics, Economic Decisions, and Innovation Adoption.” (w/ Nicole W.

Biggart). In Institutions and Ideals: Phillip Selznick’s Lasting Legacy for Organizational Scholarship.

Matthew S. Kraatz (ed.). Research in the Sociology of Organizations. (2014) Vol. 44, Emerald Group

Publishing Limited.

“The Role of Social Heuristics in Project Centered Production Networks: Insights from the Commercial

Construction Industry.” (w/ Nicole W. Biggart) Engineering Project Organization Journal. (2012) Vol.1, No.4.

“A Roadmap for Research - Characterizing the Impacts of Uncertainty in the Policy Process: Climate

Science, Policy Construction, and Local Governance Decisions.” (w/ D.A. Niemeier, A. Kendall, C. de

la Pena, R. Grattet, J. London, M. Rios, J. Sze). In Transition towards Sustainable Mobility: the Role of

Instruments, Individuals and Institutions. Harry Geerlings, Yoram Shiftan, and Dominic Stead (eds.). (2012)

Surrey, UK: Ashgate Press.

"Mesoeconomics: Business Cycles, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Crisis in Commercial Building

Markets." (w/ Nicole W. Biggart) in Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis: .

Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Michael Lounsbury and Paul Hirsch (eds.). Bingley. (2010) UK:

Emerald Group Publishing.

“Alliance-Building Across Social Movements: Bridging Difference in a Peace and Justice Coalition.” (w/

Amy J. Luebbers) Social Problems. (2009) November, Vol. 56, No. 4.

“The Logic of Risk Distribution: Site Fights and Resisting Global Toxics." A Review Essay. Social

Movement Studies. (2009) Vol. 8, No. 3, August, pp. 295-298.

“Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond.” American Behavioral Scientist. (2007) Vol. 50, No. 8,

993-1014.

“Economic Development.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. (w/ Nicole W. Biggart). George Ritzer (ed.)

(2006) Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Press.

"Economic Worlds of Work: Uniting Economic Sociology with the Sociology of Work." (w/ Nicole W.

Biggart) In Social Theory at Work. Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul Edwards (eds.). (2006)

New York and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

"Mental Models." In International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski (eds.).

(2005) London, UK: Routledge Press.

“The Economic Sociology of Conventions: Habit, Custom, Practice and Routine in Market Order.” (w/

Nicole Biggart) Annual Review of Sociology. (2003) 29:443–64.

“Waiting For Crisis: Regulatory Inaction and Ineptitude and the Case of the Guadalupe Dunes Oil Spill.”

Social Problems. (2002) Vol. 49, No. 2. May: 150-177.

“Environmental Hazards and Institutional Betrayal: Lay Public Perceptions of Risk in the San Luis

Obispo County Oil Spill.” Organization and Environment. (2001). Vol. 14, No. 1, March: 5-33.

“Accumulating Trouble: Complex Organization, a Culture-of-Silence, and a Secret Spill.” Social Problems.

(2000) Vol. 47, No. 4. November: 473-498.

“Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War and the Making of Collective Memory.” (w/ Harvey

Molotch, and Richard Flacks) Social Problems. (1995) Vol. 42, No. 3. August: 344-360.

• Reprinted in Moulder, Frances. Social Problems of the Modern World: A Reader. (2000) Belmont, CA:

Wadsworth Press.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Capital and Carbon: The Shifting Common Good Justification of Energy Regimes.” w/ Nicole Woolsey

Biggart. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Under Review.

Published Essays, Published Book Reviews, & Alternative Media

“Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States,

2000-2005.” by Doug McAdam and Hilary Schaffer Boudet. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University

Press. In Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. American Sociological Association, Thousand Oaks,

CA: SAGE Press. (2014)

“Calculating Risk: Status Quo is The Enemy.” 2012. Featured, Executive Education Blog, Published

online at http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/blog-feature/calculating-risk. (July 24, 2012).

“The BP Disaster and Hobson’s Choice of Oil Production." in Climate Progress (http://climateprogress.org)

Washington DC: Center for American Progress Action Fund. Also published online at MIT Press Log,

http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/ and in the American Sociological Section’s Environmental and

Technology Quarterly Newsletter. (Summer 2010)

"Oil vs. People." A published Q&A in the Socialogue section of Wonderlance: the Monthly Digital Magazine

http://www.wonderlance.com/mdm_july2010.html. East Sussex, United Kingdom: MDM

Wonderlance – Wonderlance Ltd. (Summer 2010). See and

http://www.wonderlance.com/mdm_july2010_socialogue_thomasbeamish.html

“Minding the Machine: Preventing Technological Disasters.” William M. Evan and Mark Manion.

(Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall). Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, (2005) Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.

32-37.

“Polanyi Symposium: A Conversation on Embeddedness.” Krippner, Greta, Mark Granovetter, Fred

Block, Nicole Biggart, Thomas D. Beamish, Youtien Hsing, Gillian Hart, Giovanni Arrighi, Margie

Mendell, John Hall, Michael Burawoy, Steve Vogel and Sean O’Riain. Socio-Economic Review (2004)

2:109.

“Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives.” By

Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc J. Ventresca (eds.). (Stanford University Press). American Journal of

Sociology. (March 2003)

“Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.” By Gene Kranz.

(New York: Penguin Putnam). Technology and Culture. Volume 43, Number 3, July, pp. 645-646 (July

2002).

“The Case for Corporate Responsibility: Corporate Violence and the Criminal Justice System.” By David

Bergman (Disaster Action: London, UK). The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 241-242.

(December 2001)

“Why Innovation Happens: Structured Actors and Emergent Outcomes in the Commercial Buildings

Sector.” (w/ Rick Kunkle, Loren Lutzenhiser, and Nicole W. Biggart) Consumer Behavior: 2000 American

Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Washington, DC: ACEEE. August: 8.13 - 8.25.

“The Tri-Counties as Technological Innovation Motivator.” California Islands Symposia Compendium. Cost

Mesa, CA: MBC Environmental Sciences. Vol. 5, pp. 686-694. (February 2000)

“Santa Barbara Channel Post-Petroleum Economy: Environmental Consulting Proliferates.” (w/ Krista

Paulson) California Islands Symposia Compendium. Santa Barbara, CA: MBC Environmental Sciences. Vol.

5, pp. 698-702. (February 2000)

“The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam.” By Jerry Lembcke (New York

University Press). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. pp. 433-434. (July 1999)

“1941-1945 Indochina at the Crossroads: Colonialism, Trusteeship, or Independence?” Electronically

published, University of California, Santa Barbara. (July 1998)

See at http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/projects/casemethod/sitemap.html

Published Book Length Reports

The New Commercial Buildings Industry. Report for the California Institute for Energy Efficiency. (Lutzenhiser, Loren,

Nicole W. Biggart, Rick Kunkle, Thomas D. Beamish and Thomas Burr)

http://ciee.ucop.edu/docs/market_struc.pdf (2001)

Petroleum Extraction in San Luis Obispo County: An Industrial History. (Thomas D. Beamish, Harvey Molotch,

Perry Shapiro, and Randolph Bergstrom) Final Report, Project 14-35-0001-30796, Department of

Interior, Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region. Camarillo, CA: Ocean Coastal Policy

Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara. (December 1998) (See

http://www.mms.gov using “Beamish” as the search term.)

UCSB Employees Grade Their Medical Plans. (Bruce C. Straits, Steven Velasco, Timothy Wun, Jeremy

Teitelbaum, Elizabeth Jackson, Mathew Mutchler, Thomas D. Beamish and Sherre Neal). A Report to the

Academic Senate’s Welfare Committee and the Administrative Services’ Benefits Office, University of California,

Santa Barbara. (October 1997)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Speaker

“Community at Risk: Biodefense and the Collective Search for Security.” Book presentation sponsored by

the Department of Sociology, SLA Center of Scholars, and the Environmental Studies Program,

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. April 9, 2016.

“Climate Change and Legitimate Governance: Land Use and Transportation Law and Policy in

California.” Invited Speaker. The Post-Carbon World: Advances in Legal and Social Theory.

Convened at the Brooklyn School of Law. Brooklyn, NY. February 19, 2016.

“Environmental Movements, Inaction, and Inertia.” Invited Discussant, American Sociological

Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Aug. 16-19, 2014.

“Organization, Culture, Risk.” Invited Workshop Organizer, Convener, and Speaker. Genentech

Corporation/Executive Education UC Davis Graduate School of Management, UC Davis Conference

Center. February 5, 2012.

“Community at Risk? Biodefense and Civic Action after the Anthrax Attacks.” Invited speaker. The

Groupe de Sociologie Pragmatique et Réflexive, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,

France, November 2012.

“Managing Organizational Risks.” Invited Speaker. Genentech Corporation, Vacaville CA, August 16,

2012.

“Community at Risk? Biodefense and Civic Action after the Anthrax Attacks.” Reckoning with the Risk of

Catastrophe, 7th Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) and the National

Science Foundation collaboration, “DFG-NSF Research Conference,” National Academies:

Washington, DC. October 3-5, 2012.

“Community at Risk? Biodefense and Civic Action After the Anthrax Attacks.” 37th Annual Natural

Hazards Research and Application Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, Saturday, July 14 - Tuesday, July 17,

2012.

“The Science & Politics of Environmental Crisis” Invited Discussant, Thematic Session: Conflict,

Controversy and Science. American Sociological Association Meetings. Las Vegas, NV, Aug. 2011.

“Social Heuristics: Decision Making and Innovation in a Networked Production Markets.” Presentation

to Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. May and October 2010.

Nature and the Organization of Economic Life. Invited Discussant, American Sociological Association Meetings,

San Francisco, CA. Aug. 9, 2009.

What’s Happened to Environmental Activism? Invited Speaker, Session 5 Chair and Presenter at 45 Years of

Democratic Activism: Legacies and Learning, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

California, May 5, 2006.

Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond. Invited Panelist, American Sociological Association

Meetings, Philadelphia, PA August 15, 2005.

Death of Environmentalism Roundtable. Invited panelist and Presentation, John Muir Environmental Institute,

University of California, Davis, CA. February 28, 2005.

Silent Spill. Presentation, Campus Authors Celebration, Peter J. Shield Library, University of California

Davis, Davis, CA. October 28, 2003.

Project Bioshield: ‘Bio-Safety’ or ‘Bio-Hazard’? Proposal idea presented at Enabling the Next Generation of Hazard

Research, National Science Foundation Fellowship and Workshop. Wood Hole, MA. July 24-28, 2003.

Constructing Markets. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Davis,

CA. December 2002.

Silent Spill. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. January

2001.

Silent Spill. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside. Riverside,

CA. January 2001.

The Construction Industry as Risk Averse and Innovation Constraining. Guest lecture in Innovations and

Organization. Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, Instructor Professor

Nicole W. Biggart. March 2000.

Risk and Risk Research. Presentation to Pricewaterhousecoopers Fellowship Committee, Centre for Analysis

of Risk and Regulation Risk, London School of Economics. London, UK. December, 2000.

Silent Spill. Presentation to the Department of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Atlanta, GA. November 2000.

Silent Spill. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Davis, CA.

January 2000.

Silent Spill. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa

Barbara, CA. February 1999.

Organizations, Work, and Bounded Rationality. Guest Lecture: An Introduction to Sociology. Department of

Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Leonard Nevarez, Instructor. May 1999.

Creeping Contamination: Remedial Agency, Responsible Party, and Community Response to a Large Scale, Long Term, Yet

Silent Spill. University of California Toxic Substances Teaching and Research Symposia. San Diego,

CA. April 1997.

Mobilizing Information, a Spiral of Silence, and the Agenda Setting Function of Mass Media. Guest lecture, Sociology

of Mass Communications. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor

Krista Paulsen, Instructor. October 1997.

Forecasting Oil into the Future: The Oil Industry, Environmentalism, and Pollution Interdiction as an ‘Industrial’ Pursuit.

Quality Review Board Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ocean Coastal Policy Center,

Marine Sciences Institute, sponsored by Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Services,

Pacifica OCS region. November 1996.

A Critique of the Mass Media. Guest lecture, Sociology of Mass Communications. Department of Sociology,

University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Steven Spencer-Stiegner, Instructor. July 1995.

Conference Presentations

“Community at Risk? Biodefense and Civic Action after the Anthrax Attacks.” Reckoning with the Risk

of Catastrophe, 7th DFG-NSF Research Conference, National Academies: Washington, DC, October

3-5, 2012.

"Blueprinting Efficiencies: Planning Against Sprawl, Traffic Congestion, and Climate Change in

California’s Central Valley." (w/ Ryken Grattet, and Deb Nemeier) in Energy, Organization, Society

Workshop. Gallagher Hall, University of California, Davis, California: The Energy Efficiency Center,

Graduate School of Management, and Department of Sociology. October 2011.

“The Gulf Spill: The Hobson's Choice of Oil Production.” In the Human Dimensions of Oil Spills.

Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers. Seattle, Washington, April 2011.

“Social Heuristics: Decision Making and Innovation in a Networked Production Market.” 2nd Joint

Seminar Organized by Stanford CRGP and Aalto University, Seminar on Global Projects, Business

Networks and Project Business, Conveners Raymond Levitt, Karlos Artto, Kim Wikstrom, Jaakko

Kujala, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. October 6-8

, 2010.

“Social Heuristics: Decision Making and Innovation in a Networked Production Market.” Sub-theme 08:

Institutions and Knowledge: Sources and Consequences. Annual Meeting of the European Group for

Organizational Studies, Department of Economics Management, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,

Lisbon, Portugal. June 30 – July 3, 2010.

“Business Cycles, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Crisis in the Commercial Building Market: Toward a

Mesoeconomics.” The Markets on Trial Workshop, Convened by Michael Lounsbury (University of

Alberta) and Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University), Kellogg Graduate School of Management,

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. October/November 2009.

“Peace and Justice: Learning from an Alliance to Stop a Hot Lab in Boston’s South End.” Presented at

the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Boston, MA. Aug. 2008.

“BioSafety or BioHazard? A 'Hot Lab' LULU in Boston's South End.” (w/ Amy Luebbers) Faculty Diversity

and Environmental Justice Research Symposium. University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and the

Environment. June 2007.

“Grounding Innovation in Social Process.” Paper presented at the European Group on Organizations,

Journal of Organizational Studies Summer Workshop. Conveners Robert Chia, Ann Langley, and

Haridimos Tsoukas. Santorini, Greece. June 12-13, 2005.

“Project Bioshield: ‘Bio-Safety’ or ‘Bio-Hazard’?” Presentation at Enabling the Next Generation of Hazard

Research, National Science Foundation Fellows Workshop. Pleasant Valley, CO. July 7-10, 2004.

“Theorizing Exchange as Organizing Work.” Regular Session. Economic Sociology: New Approaches to

Network Formation and the Evolution of Exchange Systems. Annual Meetings of the American

Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August 2004

“Markets as Regimes: Explaining Change and Stability, Competition and Consensus in Economic

Contexts.” SCANCOR Institutions Conference. CERAS, Stanford University. March 26-27, 2004.

“The Economy as Inter-subjective Process.” Paper presented to the Georgia Workshop on Culture and

Institutions. University of Georgia, Athens, GA. February 28, 2003.

“Constructing a Market: Conventional Practice and Market Order in the U.S. Commercial Buildings

Industry" Paper presentation, Economic Sociology: Inter-firm Networks. American Sociological Association.

Chicago, ILL. August 2002.

"Constructing a Markets.” Mini-conference. The Next Great Transformation? Karl Polanyi and the

Critique of Globalization. Alumni and Visitors' Center, University of California Davis. Co-Conveners:

Nicole Biggart, Fred Block, and Sean O'Riain. April 12-13, 2002.

“Constructing a Field: Conventional Practice and Coordinated Economic Action.” Paper presentation:

Research Workshop on Institutions, Conflict, and Change (ICC3), James L. Allen Center, Kellogg Graduate

School of Management, Northwestern University. Co-Conveners: Matt Kraatz and Marc Ventresca.

December 8-10, 2000.

“The Resource Agency Beat: Waiting for a Tanker on the Rocks.” Paper presentation. Section:

Organizations and Technological Disasters at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association.

Washington, DC. August 2000.

“Incrementalism and Habituation: The Social Anatomy of a Chronic Pollution Event.” Paper submission

and presentation. Session 5.6: Inscribing Nature: Discovery, Disclosure, and Reaction at the Annual Meetings of

the Society for Social Studies of Science. San Diego, CA. October 1999.

“A Case of Contamination.” Paper submission and presentation. Section: Environmental Sociology at the

Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August 1998.

“Silent Spill: Responsible Party, Remedial Agency, and Community Response to a Case of Creeping

Contamination.” Paper submission and presentation. Section: Environmental Sociology at the Annual

Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. April 1998.

“Community Identity, Environmental Aesthetics, and Industrial Negligence.” Paper submission and

presentation. Session: Art, Science, and Politics at the North American Interdisciplinary Conference on

Environment and Community. University of Nevada-Reno. February 1998.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Collective Behavior/Collective Action

• Social & Political Ecology

• Environmental Sociology

• Greening Business: Moving Beyond

Compliance towards Green Strategy

• Institutions & Organizations

• Organizations & Technology Management

• Sociology of Complex Organizations

• Sociological Research Traditions & Field

Methods

Instructor Training

1997 “Sociological Case Work Group.” Under the supervision of Dr. John Foran, with grant sponsorship from

the Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation and UCSB Instructional Development, participated in

a year long work-shop that developed cases for social science curriculums.

1996 “Preparation for Faculty Roles in Higher Education.” Interdisciplinary Studies Workshop. University of

California, Santa Barbara.

1995 “Teaching the Case Study Method.” Workshop Facilitator, Dr. John Boehrer, Kennedy School of

Government, Harvard University. Sponsored by University of California, Santa Barbara.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Professional/Campus/Division Service Work

2015/2016

Committee Member, Deans Advisory Committee. Division of Social Sciences, University of California,

Davis.

Committee Member, Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California,

Davis.

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology, Tulane

University.

2014/2015

Committee Member, Division of Social Sciences Steering Committee. Division of Social Sciences,

University of California, Davis.

Board Member, Mellon Research Initiative in Environments & Societies, Davis Humanities Center,

University of California, Davis

Committee Member, Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California,

Davis.

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology, Tulane

University.

2013/2014

Committee Member, Division of Social Sciences Steering Committee. Division of Social Sciences,

University of California, Davis.

Board Member, Mellon Research Initiative in Environments & Societies, Davis Humanities Center,

University of California, Davis

Committee Member, Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California,

Davis.

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology, Tulane

University.

2012/2013

Convener. Environmental Governance and Climate Change. Co-organizer w/ Debbie A. Niemeier and

Ryken Grattet, National Science Foundation, Grant Number #1244252, Law and Social Sciences

Directorate, National Science Foundation, Tahoe Research Center, University of California, Davis.

June 2013.

Convener. Managing Organizational Risks, Workshop for Senior Managers and Engineers, Genentech

Corporation held at the UC Davis Conference Center. Co-organizer w/ Executive Education,

Graduate School of Management, UC Davis. February 2012.

Committee Member. Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California,

Davis.

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology,

University of Georgia.

2011/2012

Organizer. California the Great Exception? Conversations on Environment, Health & Risk. Co-

Organizer (w/ Julie Sze, American Studies). California Cultural Initiative, Thinking Regionally

Research Seminars, Davis Humanities Center, University of California, Davis. April – June 2012.

Convener. The Energy, Organization, Society Workshop. (w/ Nicole W. Biggart, Energy Efficiently

Center and Graduate School of Management). Gallagher Hall, University of California, Davis: The

Energy Efficiency Center, Graduate School of Management, and Department of Sociology. October

2011

Committee Member, Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California,

Davis.

Board Member/Participant, Mellon Research Initiative in Environments & Societies, Davis Humanities

Center, University of California, Davis

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology,

University of Georgia.

Department Alternate, Academic Senate Assembly Representative, Department of Sociology, University

of California Davis.

2010/2011

Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, Current Editor David Smilde, Department of Sociology,

University of Georgia.

Review Board, “Innovation in Sustainable Construction Process,” Eva Boxenbaum, Director,

Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Jointly funded research Denmark and France.

Board review (2011).

Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California, Davis.

REACH Trainer, (REsponding to RApid Environmental Change) Integrative Graduate Education and

Research Traineeship (IGERT) program funded by the National Science Foundation, University of

California Davis.

2009/2010

Session Organizer, Open Paper Session, “Social Organization and Risk” for the American Sociological

Association annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. August 14-17.

Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California, Davis.

REACH Trainer, (REsponding to RApid Environmental Change) Integrative Graduate Education and

Research Traineeship (IGERT) program funded by the National Science Foundation, University of

California Davis.

2008/2009

Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California, Davis.

Wide Area Rapid Notification System (WARN), Co-Chair, Implementation Project Team, University of

California Davis.

REACH Trainer, (REsponding to RApid Environmental Change) Integrative Graduate Education and

Research Traineeship (IGERT) program funded by the National Science Foundation, University of

California Davis.

2007/2008

Nominations Committee, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological

Association

Reviewer, Grant Review for The UC France-Berkeley Fund. Winter 2008

Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. University of California, Davis.

2006/2007

Session Organizer (w/ Patrick Carroll) of Open Paper Session, “Science, Technology, and Environments”

for the American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York, New York. August 2007.

Science and Technology Studies Program Committee. Department Science and Technology, University

of California, Davis.

2004/2005

Program Chair, Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Meetings, Philadelphia,

PA. August 2005.

Department of Sociology Liaison, Science and Technology Search Committee, University of California

Davis.

Transitioning to and Thriving in the First Faculty Year, Professors for the Future Program, University of

California Davis, Davis CA. January 5, 2005.

2003/2004

Session Recorder, Annual Boulder Hazards Workshop. Boulder, CO. July 11-14.

Presider, Disasters. Regular Paper Session, American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco,

CA. August 2004.

2002/2003

Awards Committee, Student Paper Competition, Environment and Technology Section of the American

Sociological Association, Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August.

Co-founder and organizer, The Georgia Workshop on Culture and Institutions, University of Georgia-

Athens, Athens GA

Awards Committee, Dissertation Competition, Organizations and the Natural Environment Section,

Academy of Management, Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. August 2003.

Emergency Management Group, Planning and Intelligence, Academic and Personnel Representative,

University of California, Davis.

2001/2002

Roundtable Presider. Negotiating Rationality in Organizations. American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting. Chicago, ILL. August 2002.

Newsletter Editor, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological

Association.

2000/2001

Session Organizer. Organizations, Innovations, and Technological Change. Pacific Sociological

Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March-April 2001.

Newsletter Editor, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological

Association.

1999/2000

Session Organizer. Organizations and Technological Disasters (co-sponsored session Organizations,

Occupations, and Work & Science, Knowledge, and Technology sections of the American Sociological

Association). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August.

Nominations Committee. Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological

Association. Fall.

Department Committees/Service Work

2015/206

Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis

2013/2014

Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis

2012/2013

Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

2011/2012

Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

2010/2011

Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Merit Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Sabbatical. Winter/Spring 2010

2008/2009

Merit Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

2007/2008

Merit Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Graduate Student Professionalization Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California

Davis

2005/2006

Parental leave. Winter/Spring 2006

Urban and Community Sociology Search Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California

Davis.

Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

2004/2005

Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis.

2003/2004

Department News Letter (w/ Vicki Smith), Spring 2004, Department of Sociology, University of

California, Davis.

Colloquium Committee (w/ David Kyle), Spring/Fall 2004, Department of Sociology, University of

California Davis.

Graduate Group, Ad hoc Membership Committee, University of California, Davis.

Commencement, Organizational Studies Representative, University of California, Davis.

Undergraduate Program, University of California, Davis.

2002/2003

Colloquiums Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia-Athens.

2001/2002

Colloquiums Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia-Athens.

Work, Organizations, and Occupations Area Committee, Department of Sociology, University of

Georgia-Athens.

1998

Science and Technology Search Committee. Graduate Student Representative, Department of Sociology,

Faculty Hire, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviewing Duties

2015 – Contemporary Sociology, Social

Problems, National Science Foundation

2014 - Oxford University Press, International

Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters,

Sage Press

2013 - Ashbury Publishing, Qualitative

Sociology, International Journal of Mass

Emergencies and Disasters, Contemporary

Sociology

2012- Contemporary Sociology, Mobilization,

Qualitative Sociology

2011 - MIT Press, Administrative Science

Quarterly, Mobilization, Qualitative Sociology,

Journal of Transportation Research Part A:

Policy and Practice

2010 - Organization and Environment,

American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems,

City and Community

2009 - Mobilization, Social Problems, Social

Movement Studies, American Journal of

Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, National

Science Foundation, Administrative Science

Quarterly

2008 - Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry,

Organizational Studies, and Journal of

Environmental Management, National Science

Foundation, University of Minnesota Press

2007 - Social Forces, Journal of Organizational

Studies, Social Problems

2006 - Social Forces, Journal of Organizational

Studies, Social Problems

2005 - Sociological Forum, Administrative

Science Quarterly, Journal of Contingencies and

Crisis Management

2004 - Social Problems, Administrative Science

Quarterly, Social Forces

2003 - American Journal of Sociology, Social

Problems, Rutledge Press, Humanity and

Society, Technology and Culture, Journal of

Business Research

2002 - Social Problems, Organization Science,

Sociological Forum, Qualitative Sociology,

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis

Management, Journal of Business Research

2001 - Social Problems, Social Sciences

Quarterly, Academy Management Journal

1999 - Contemporary Sociology

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

(Past and present)

• American Sociological Association

• The Academy of Management

• European Group on Organizations

• Society for the Study of Social Problems

• Pacific Sociological Association

• Association for Environmental Studies and

Sciences