Apollonya Porcelli

Educational Background

BS in Natural Resources, Cornell University

MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

PhD in Sociology, Brown University

Research and Teaching Interests

Environmental justice, marine science and policy, urban environments, social movements, science and technology studies, Latin America, New England

Courses Typically Offered

SOCI 100: Introduction to Sociology

SOCI 220: Environmental Sociology

SOCI 311: Globalization and Sustainability in Latin America

SOCI 227: Oceans & Society

SOCI 200 (IP with Biomedical Engineering): Sex, Drugs and Genomics

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed

“Long after ‘People Before Highways’: Social movements and knowledge politics in Greater Boston, 1960-2016,” Social Problems (with Aaron Niznik and Scott Frickel) (2022)

“Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements,” Social Movement Studies (with Scott Frickel, Aaron Niznik, and Amy Teller) (2022)

“Sources from below: A rebel archive rewrites maritime history of Peru’s cuarta región,” Special issue edited by Javier Puente and Adrián Lerner, Historia Ambiental, Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC)12(3): 28-54 (2022)

“After the collapse: Examining undone science in the wake of a global environmental crisis,” Special issue on ‘Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making’, Geoforum 132(2021): 219-228

“Sub-disciplining science in sociology: Bridges and barriers between environmental STS and environmental sociology,” Environmental Sociology (with Jordan Fox) (2021)

“Comparing bonding capital in New England groundfish and scallop fisheries: Differing effects of privatization,” Marine Policy 84 (2017): 244-250

“Ruin’s progeny: Race, environment and Appalachia’s coal camp blacks,” Special issue on ‘Race and Environment’, The DuBois Review 13(2): 327-344 (with Karida Brown and Michael W. Murphy) (2016)

Other Media

“Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Environmental Sociology” in (Ed.) Christine Overdevest. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Cheltonham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (2024)

“Reseeding the Big Oyster, Receding Coastlines: Ocean Justice in New York City”, “Lessons from La Lucha (The Workers’ Struggle): Organized Labor and the Industries of the Sea”, and “More than Mermaids: Reclaiming the Lost Feminist Voice in the Sociology of the Oceans” (solo-authored); and “Introducing Environmental Sociology and its Importance for Ocean Science” (co-authored with Jordan Fox and Timothy Clark). Ocean Nexus Blog Series, University of Washington and the Nippon Foundation (2023)

Interview with Zanagee Artis and Olivia Greenspan,“Episode 8: Water,” 1 Point 5: A Kids Podcast About Climate Justice. August 29 (2021)