Dr. Tamara Mix
Associate Professor
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CONTACT INFORMATION
SPRING 2018 CLASS SCHEDULE
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CURRENT RESEARCH AND GRANT PROJECTS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Environmental Sociology
- Environmental Justice
- Social Movements
- Social Justice
- Race, Class, & Gender Inequality
EDUCATION
- B.A. in Sociology, James Madison University
- M.A. in Sociology, University of Tennessee--Knoxville
- Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Tennessee--Knoxville
Tammy is an associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. She joined the OSU faculty in 2005. Her research interests include environmental sociology, environmental justice, race, class and gender inequality, and social movements. Maintaining a focus on environmental and social justice in her research, Tammy has conducted fieldwork in communities experiencing a wide range of environmental challenges linked to environmental risks, including work with community contamination and environmental illness in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, predator control and regional resilience in Alaska, and community dimensions of natural resource extraction and production in Oklahoma. Current projects consider environmental justice and inequality related to water and energy resource extraction and production, and food justice, food security and local food networks impacting underserved communities. Tammy's research activities seek to understand community responses to environmental harms and work towards solutions based approaches. Her research has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals including: the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, The Sociological Quarterly, and Sociological Forum among others. Tammy teaches in the areas of environmental sociology, inequality, social psychology and qualitative methods.