*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Regional Faculty Fellow @amleq.bsky.social is an environmental sociologist and Assistant Professor in Sociology at Drexel University who researches how people use stories of place, belonging, and repair to diagnose social problems across the rural-urban spectrum.

Welp, the US Climate impacts screening tool has disappeared. screeningtool.geoplatform.gov. We can see through the @waybackmachine.bsky.social that it was working yesterday.

bumping my colleague Xiaorui Huang's fabulous article in @nature.com climate action on the relationship between renewable energy deployment and carbon dioxide emissions in high-income nations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

a lovely and acute summary of my interview with Kyle Green for Give Theory a Chance!

Check out this fun conversation about how geographer Yi-Fu Tuan shaped my new book, and why I think sociologists need to be more like Tuan here @thesocietypages.bsky.social thesocietypages.org/theory/2024/...

The stellar rural newspaper organization, @dailyyonder.bsky.social, interviewed me about rural Wisconsin residents' decision making, environmental ethics, and my personal motivations for the research backing Who We Are, here: dailyyonder.com/qa-why-do-pe...

Wisconsin's @npr.org covered the rural community that I studied, in this interview: www.wpr.org/news/home-ir...

check out a few of my essays on findings from my book, like this in @theconversation.com on why people stay in hard places: theconversation.com/why-people-s...

Disposable issues: The Sociological Review magazine’s #TSRWaste issue looks at wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted lives. Contributions from Miriam Emefa Dzah, @jedalegado.bsky.social, Aline Stehrenberger, Amit Balmiki, Mark Parsons, Alexandrina Vanke and many more. buff.ly/3Zuum1p

Unboxing my new book, 'Who we are is where we are: Making home in the American Rustbelt'! What a labor of love. Why do people stay in hard places, when all evidence suggests leaving is the best best? Read the book!