January 2020

CURRICULUM VITAE

STEVE KROLL-SMITH Department of Sociology

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402

s_krolls@uncg.edu Education Ph.D. 1982 University of Pennsylvania Major: Sociology M.A. 1977 University of Pennsylvania Major: Folklore and Folklife Studies M.A. 1974 Bryn Mawr College Major: Sociology B.A. 1972 Ball State University Major: Sociology & History University Experience Current—Professor of Sociology, UNCG Current—Co-Coordinator Humanities Action Lab Current—Faculty Member, UNCG Sustainability Program 2007-2011 Katrina Project Team, Social Science Research Council 2001-2006 Professor and Head of Sociology, UNCG 1997-2001 Research Professor of Sociology, University of New Orleans 1994-2001 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Orleans 1993-1998 Co-Director, Environmental Social Science Research Institute,

University of New Orleans 1991-1994 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Orleans 1982-1991 Assistant & Associate Professor of Sociology, Penn State University Editor 2005-2011—Sociological Inquiry

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Editorial Board 2016—Current—Journal of Applied Social Science

Publications

Work in Progress Steve Kroll-Smith, “Chemicals, Climate, and the Eco-Symbolic Body, Looking with a Sociological Eye.” Forthcoming, Journal of Medical Humanities. Work in Progress Steve Kroll-Smith, Calvin Adkins and Ena Prskalo “How a Hurricane Found the Past, Calamity and the Rise of Historical Consciousness in Princeville, North Carolina” Target Journal: Journal of Historical Sociology. Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter, Pam Jenkins, “Self in the Age of Catastrophe, Thinking Beyond Recovery.” Books in Print Steve Kroll-Smith. 2018. Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the Aftermath of Disaster. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. (Listed in Rice University / Kinder Institute for Urban Research: Urban Edge's Favorite 2018 Books) Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter & Pam Jenkins. 2015. Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans’ Neighborhoods. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. (Reviewed in the NYTimes, August 2015 and The Houston

Chronicle, August 2015) Nominated for the 2016 Association for Humanist Sociology’s Alfred McClung annual book award)

Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith. 2007. Volatile Places: Understanding Communities and

Environmental Controversies. Newbury, CA: Sage Press. Steve Kroll-Smith Phil Brown and Valerie Gunter (eds.). 2000. Illness and the Environment: A

Reader in Contested Medicine. NY: New York University Press. Steve Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd. 1997. Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the

Struggle Over Medical Knowledge. NY: New York University Press. Pamela Jenkins and Steve Kroll-Smith, Editors. 1996. Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in

Court. Westport, CN: Praeger Press. Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, Editors. 1991. Communities at Risk: Collective

Responses to Technological Hazards. New York: Peter Lang Press. Steve Kroll-Smith and Stephen R. Couch. 1990. The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine

Fire and Social Conflict. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. (Included among

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American Library Association’s Outstanding Top 10 Book List for 1990) Journal Editor, Special Issue Kai Erikson and Steve Kroll-Smith, Co-Editors, Sociological Inquiry, 2014: “Learning from Hurricane Katrina,” V. 84, N. 3. Steve Kroll-Smith and Saundra Westervelt, Co-Editors, Law & Policy. 2004. “Toxic Torts and Environmental Justice.” Vol. 26, No.2. Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, Co-Editors, Current Sociology. 1997.Trend Report:

"Environmental Disruption and Social Change." Vol. 45, No.3. Steve Kroll-Smith and Stephen R. Couch, Co-Editors, Industrial Crisis Quarterly.

1992. Issue Topic: "The Social Construction of Technological Hazards." Vol. 6, No. 2.

Josephine LaPlante and Steve Kroll-Smith, Co-Editors, International Journal

of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. 1991. Issue Topic: "Planning Perspectives on Disasters." Vol. 9, No. 3.

Refereed Articles Kroll-Smith, Steve, Pamela Jenkins, and Vern Baxter. 2017. “Miss Katrina is Not Finished with Me: Acknowledging the Explanatory Overreach of Recovery.” Research Counts, Natural Hazards Center. (https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts/miss-katrina-is-not- finished-with-me-acknowledging-the-explanatory-overreach-of-recovery) Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2014. “Learning from Hurricane Katrina: Assembling a Research Team.” Sociological Inquiry, V. 84, N. 3: 340-344. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Rachel S. Madsen. 2014. “Disaster, Time and Dialogue a Couple Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.” Sociological Inquiry, V. 84, N. 3: 360-369. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Shelly Brown-Jeffy. 2013. “A Tale of Two American Cities: Disaster, Class and Citizenship in San Francisco 1906 and New Orleans 2005.” Journal of Historical Sociology, V.4 N 4: 527-551. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Gwen Hunnicutt (2008) “Satire, Guns and Humans: Lessons from the Nacirema.” Fast Capitalism, V3, 1: 22-45. Kroll-Smith, Steve, Pam Jenkins, and Vern Baxter. 2008. “The Bricoleur and the Possibility of

Rescue: First Responders to the Flooding of New Orleans.” Journal of Management and Policy Studies, V. 13, 2: 5-22.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Valerie Gunter. 2005. “Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies,

Discourse, and Liquid Modernity.” Sociological Inquiry 75, 3: 346-371. Baxter, Vern and Steve Kroll-Smith. 2005. “Normalizing the Workplace Nap:

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Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time.” Current Sociology, 53, 1: 33-56. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Saundra Westervelt. 2004. “People, Bodies and Biospheres:

Nexus and the Toxic Tort.” Law & Policy, Vol 26, No.2: 177-188. Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2003. “Popular Media and ‘Excessive Daytime Sleepiness’: A Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 24, 4: 625-643. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Worth Lancaster. 2002. “Bodies, Environments, and a New Style of

Reasoning.” Annals of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, No. 584 (November): 203-212.

Kroll-Smith, Steve, Valerie Gunter and Shirley Laska. 2000. “The Symbolic, The Physical, and

Sociology: Analytic Stances and Theorizing Environments.” American Sociologist, V. 31, N.1: 44-61.

Couch, Stephen R. and Steve Kroll-Smith. 1998. "Environmental Movements and Expert

Knowledge: Evidence for a New Populism.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, V. 34, N.2: 185-210. (Reprinted in Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown and Valerie Gunter’s Illness and the Environment. New York University Press, 1999).

Kroll-Smith, Steve, Stephen R. Couch and Brent K. Marshall. 1997. "Sociology, Extreme

Environments and Social Change.” Current Sociology, V. 45, N.3:1- 18. Couch, Stephen R., Steve Kroll-Smith, and John Wilson. 1997. "Toxic

Contamination and Alienation: Community Disorder and the Individual." Research In Community Sociology, V. 7: 95-115.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 1995. "Toxic Contamination and the Loss of Civility." Sociological Spectrum, V. 15:377-396. (Plenary Address) Kroll-Smith, Steve and Shirley Laska. 1994. "The GEC Debate: Notes on Theorizing and

Researching the Environment; or, Where is our Newton?" Environment, Technology, and Society N. 74:1-13.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Stephen R. Couch. 1994. "Environmental Controversies, Interactional

Resources and Rural Communities: Siting Versus Exposure Disputes." Rural Sociology, V. 59, N. 1:25-44.

Kroll-Smith, Stephen J. and Stephen R. Couch. 1993. "Symbols, Ecology and Contamination:

Case Studies in the Ecological-Symbolic Approach to Disaster." Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, V.5:47-73.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Anthony E. Ladd. 1993. "Environmental Illness and Biomedicine: Anomalies, Exemplars and the Politics of the Body." Sociological Spectrum V.13, N.7:7- 33. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Stephen R. Couch. 1991. "What Is A Disaster? An

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Ecological-Symbolic Approach to Resolving the Definitional Debate." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. V.9, N. 3: 355-366.

LaPlante, Josephine and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1991. "Public Policy and

Environmental Hazards: Editorial Commentary." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, V.9, N.3: 317-319.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1991. "As If Exposure to Toxins Was Not

Enough: The Social and Cultural System as a Secondary Stressor." Environmental Health Perspectives, V. 95 : 61-66.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1990. "Sociological Knowledge and the Public

at Risk: A `Self Study' of Sociology, Technological Hazards and Moral Dilemmas." Sociological Practice Review. V. 1, N.2: 120-127.

Couch, Stephen R. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1990. "Slow Burn." The Sciences, May/June: 5-7. (invited paper). LaPlante, Josephine and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1989. "Coordinated Emergency

Management: The Challenge of the Chronic Technological Disaster."International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, V.7, N.3: 134-150.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1989. "Some Thoughts on Natural

Disasters, Technological Hazards and Social Change." Environment Technology and Society, N. 56: 2-10. (invited paper)

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1987. "An Environmental Disaster

and the Irrelevance of Religious Meaning: A Case Study of Centralia, Pennsylvania." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, V. 26: 25-39.

Couch, Stephen R. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1985. "The Chronic Technical

Disaster: Toward a Social Scientific Perspective." Social Science Quarterly V. 66: 564-575. Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Sam Garula. 1985. "The Real Disaster Is Above Ground:

Community Conflict and Grassroots Organization in Centralia." Small Town, N. 1: 4- 11.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen. 1984. "Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational

Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia." Journal of Southern History V. 4, N.3: 551-568.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen. 1982. "Tobacco and Belief: Baptist Ideology and the

Yeoman Planter in 18th Century Virginia." Southern Studies V. 21, N.4: 353-368.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen. 1980. "Charisma and Performance: The Role of the Preacher in a Pentecostal Worship Service." Review of Afro-American Issues and Culture V.2, N.2: 57-74.

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Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen. 1980. "The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship

of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion V.19, N.1: 16-25.

Burns, Thomas A. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1978. "Being and Becoming:

Symbolic Movement in a Sunday Morning Worship Service." Anthropological Quarterly V. 51, N.2: 185- 204.

Book Chapters Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2013. ““Cidadania, Estado e vulnerabilidade: um estudo comparado

sobre a recuperacao de catastrofes” Reprinted in CES Contexto, N. 3, December: 211-233.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2012. “Cidadania, Estado e vulnerabilidade: um estudo comparado

sobre a recuperacao de catastrofes.” In Jose Manuel Mendes w Pedro Araujo. Os Lugares (IM)Possiveis Da Cidadania, Estado e Risco num mundo Glovalizado. Lisbon, Portugal: Almedina, pp. 255-288.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2011. “Urban Space, Race and Citizenship, A Story of Two Disasters” in Pedro Menendes (Ed) Citizenship and Globalization, Coimbra, University of Coimbra Press, pp. 28-55. Kroll-Smith, Steve and H. Hugh Floyd. 2011. “La maladie eniornnementale comme epistemologie pratique” in Madeleline Akrich, Yannick Barthe, Cahterine Remy (Eds) Sur la Piste Environnementale Presses des Mines Paris, pp. 89-121. Baxter, Vern, Pamela Jenkins, Steve Kroll-Smith and Elizabeth Fussell. 2010. “New

Orleans and Hurricane Katrina,” in Wanda Rushing, Editor. Urbanization, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, V. 15: 111-120.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Shelly Brown. 2008. “Recovering Inequality: Democracy, Free

Markets and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire,” in Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy, Editors, The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters. Santa Fe, NM: The Altimira Press, pp. 83-106.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Gwen Hunnicutt (2008) Satire, Guns and Humans: Lessons from

the Nacirema, in Ben Agger, Editor, There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 130-151.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Joshua Kelly. 2008. “Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural

Imaginary,” in Pamela Moss, Editor, Contested Illness: Environments and Bodies in Late Modernity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 305-322.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2008. “Modern Work and the Sleepy Worker.” AMA Journal of Ethics, v.

10, 9: 589-593.

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Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2003. “Popular Media and ‘Excessive Daytime Sleepiness’: A

Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology,” in Clive Seale, Editor, Health and the Media. London: Blackwell Publishing, pp: 108-125.

Kroll-Smith, Steve, Stephen R. Couch and Adeline G. Levine. 2001.

"Individual and Social Responses to Technological Hazards and Disasters," in Riley E. Dunlap and William Michelson, Editors , Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 71-98.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2000. “A Sociologist’s View” in Gail McCormick, Editor, Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Narratives of Coping. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, pp. 257-261.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 2000. “The Social Production of the “Drowsy Person” in Gale Miller and James Holstein, Editors, Perspectives on Social Problems. JAI Press, pp. 89-109.

Kroll-Smith, Steve, Phil Brown and Valerie Gunter. 2000. “Environments and Diseases in a

Postnatural World” in Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and Valerie Gunter (eds.), Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York: New York University Press, pp. 1-6.

Brown, Phil, Steve Kroll-Smith, and Valerie Gunter. 2000. “Knowledge, Citizens and

Organizations: An Overview of Environments, Diseases and Social Conflict,” in Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and Valerie Gunter (eds.), Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York: New York University Press, pp. 9-25.

Couch, Steve and Steve Kroll-Smith. 1999. “Discovering and Inventing Hazardous

Environments: Sociological Knowledge and the Public At Risk,” in Maurie Cohen (ed.), Risk At the End of the Century. Cambridge University Press, pp. 146-178.

Kroll-Smith, Steve and Valerie Gunter. 1998. "Legislators, Interpreters, and Disasters: The Importance of How as well as What is Disaster?" in Henry Quarantelli,

Editor, Sociological Theories of Disaster. London: Routledge, Pp. 152-176. Kroll-Smith, Steve. 1998. “Epilogue,” in Rhonda Zwillinger’s The Dispossessed: Living with

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, Pp. 136-140. Kroll-Smith, Steve and Pamela Jenkins. 1996. "Sociological Knowledge, Narratives, and the

Courts," in Pam Jenkins and Steve Kroll-Smith, Editors Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court. Westport, CN: Praeger, Pp.1-18.

Couch, Stephen R. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1994. "The Chronic Technical Disaster: Toward

a Social Perspective," in Susan Cutter, Editor Environmental Risks and Hazards. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Pp. 564-575. (See below: Social Science Quarterly 1985).

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Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1993. "Technological Hazards: Social Responses as Traumatic Stressors," in John P. Wilson and Beverly Raphael,

Editors, The International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. New York: Plenum Press, Pp. 62-85.

Couch, Stephen R. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1992. "Controllability, Social Breakdown, and the Centralia Coal Mine Fire," in S.K. Majumdar, E.W. Miller, G.S.

Forbes, and R.F. Schmalz, Editors Natural and Technological Disasters: Causes, Effects and Preventive Measures. Easton, PA: The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Pp. 42-61.

Kroll-Smith, Steve. 1991. "Toxic Waste, A Moral Crusade, and The American Insurance

Industry," in Neil R. Britton and John Oliver, Editors, Natural and Technological Hazards: Implications For The Insurance Industry. Armidale, New South Wales: University of New England Press, Pp. 219-232.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1991. "Technological Hazards, Adaptation and

Social Change." in Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Editors, Communities At Risk. NY: Peter Lang Press, Pp.291-320.

Couch, Stephen R. and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1990. "Patterns of Victimization and the Chronic

Technical Disaster," in Aden Viano, Editor, The Victimology Handbook: Research Findings, Treatment, and Public Policy. NY: Garland, Pp. 159-175.

LaPlante, Josephine and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1988. "Centralia: The Nightmare Which Would

Not End," in Michael Charles and John Kim, Editors, Crisis Management: A Casebook. Springfield, IL: Charles G., Thomas Publisher, Pp. 85-100.

Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen and Stephen R. Couch. 1986. "Chronic Technical Disasters, Small

Town Conflict and the Social Construction of Threat Beliefs," in Edward Miller and Robert Wolensky, Editors, The Small Town and Regional Community. Stevens Point, WI: Foundation Press, Inc., Pp.262-269.

Knox, Barbara, Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1985. "Building a Town,

Preventing A Community: A Social History of Centralia, Pennsylvania” in Lance Metz, Editor, Proceedings of the Canal History and Technology Symposium, Vol. 4. Easton , PA: Center for Canal History and Technology Press, Pp. 69-92.

Book Reviews Johnson, Cedric. 2013. The Neoliberal Deluge, Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota. Contemporary Sociology, 46, 6: 849-851. Shell, Marc. 2006. Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard U.P. Journal of the American Medical Association, 294: 1829-1830. Bolin, Robert. 2001. The Northridge Earthquake. London: Routledge. Contemporary Sociology:

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174-176. Freudenburg, William and Ted Youn (eds). 2001. Research In Social Problems and Public Policy. Stamford, CN: JAI Press. Contemporary Sociology: 274- 275. Willard, Charles Arthur. 1998. Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press. Clinical Sociology Review, V. 16, N. 1: 100-101. Irwin, Alan. 1997. Citizen Science: A Study of People Expertise and Sustainable

Development. London: Routledge. Organization and Environment V.1, N.1: 95-98. Bogard, William. 1994. The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic and Politics in the

Production of a Hazard. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Industrial Crisis Quarterly V. 6, N. 3:177- 179.

Jonathan R. White. 1991. Terrorism. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks Cole Publishers.

International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. V.9, N. 2: 217-218. Lee Wilkes, Shared Vulnerability: The Media and Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster. 1989. NY: Greenwood Press. Contemporary Sociology, 48: 608. Thomas E. Drabek. 1988. Human System Responses to Disaster. New York: Springer-Verlag. Contemporary Sociology, 17: 513-514. Robert J. Ackerman, Religion as Critique.1986. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. Social Science Quarterly, 67: 669. James D. Hunter. 1984. American Evangelicalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University

Press. Journal of Southern History, V. 50, N. 1: 152-154. Dan Rose.1984. Energy Transition and the Community: A Theory of Society Applied to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Urban Life. April 2: 115- 117. Paul F. Gillespie (ed.). 1983. Foxfire 7. NY: Doubleday. Journal for the Scientific Study of

Religion, Vol. 22, N. 3: 299-300. Jean M. Humez. 1982. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary,

Shaker Eldress, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, V. 21, N. 4: 3 80-381.

Kenneth E. Burnham. 1981. God Comes to America: Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement, Boston: Lambeth Press. Journal for the Scientific Studyof Religion, V. 20, N. 3: 206-208. Critical Note: Stephen Glazier.1981. Perspectives on Pentecostalism. Washington, DC: University Press of America. Religious Studies Review, 7: 139,

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Lyn Lofland, 1980. The Craft of Dying. Beverly Hills: Sage Press. Urban Life, 10: 228-230. Michael H. Ducey. 1980. Sunday Morning: Aspects of Urban Ritual, New York: The Free Press.

Anthropological Quarterly, 53: 78- 80. Reports Kai Erikson and Steve Kroll-Smith. 2011. “What Katrina Can Tell Us about Race, Class, and

Gender in These United States.” SSRC Task Force on Katrina. Steve Kroll-Smith, "Organizational uncertainty and grassroots mobilization," a report prepared

for the Department of Engineering, the University of New Orleans, August, 1994. Steve Kroll-Smith Stephen R. Couch, "Social Impacts of Toxic Contamination," a report

prepared for the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, Yucca Mountain Socioeconomic Project, Phase IV-C, Task 9.3, September 1991.

Steve Kroll-Smith, "Technological Hazards and Disasters: A Training Course for Disaster

Managers," manual prepared for The Center For Disaster Management, University of New England, NSW, Australia, 1990.

Steve Kroll-Smith and John P. Wilson and Stephen R. Couch, "Psychosocial Impacts of

Exposure to Industrial Pollution: The Disaster at Brookhurst," an interim report prepared for the law firm Spence, Moriarity and Schuster, 1989.

Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, "Preliminary Report on Brookhurst," a research report prepared for the law firm Spence, Moriarity and Schuster, 1989. Steve Kroll-Smith, "Trapped in the Warning Stage: Living with Threat In Niagara Falls, NY,"

prepared testimony for Department of Environmental Conservation Hearings on a proposal to expand the CECOS International azardous Waste Treatment facility located in Niagara Falls, NY, 1989.

Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, "Report on Rawhide Control Group," a research

report prepared for the law firm of Spence, Moriarity and Schuster, 1989. Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, "Preliminary Report on Rawhide: A Social Psychological Assessment," a research report prepared for the law firm of Spence, Moriarity and Schuster, 1989.

Grants Awarded Social Science Research Council (2008-2010) Grant to administer projects on Hurricane Katrina, $25,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2008) for project entitled “The New Orleans Neighborhood Recovery Project, $157,000, (Principal Investigator). Social Science Research Grant (2005) for project entitled “The Flooding of New Orleans:

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Neighborhood Recovery Study,” $5000. Faculty Research Award, UNCG (2005) for project entitled “Case Studies in Disasters and Human Inequality,” $5000. Stanley Scott Cancer Center, LSU (1995) for project entitled "Cancer and Social Behaviors in the Corridor," $48,897. Environmental Protection Agency (1994) for project entitled "Health and Illness Behaviors in Industrial Environment," $37,641.00 (Principal Investigator). Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Summer (1991) for project entitled "Seeking Health In an Industrial Environment," $17,000 (Co-Principal Investigator). Research Grant from Center For Research In Conflict and Negotiation, Penn State University (1990-1991) for project entitled "Social Conflict and Toxic Exposure," $1,000 (Principal Investigator). Research Development Grant, Penn State University (1988-1989) for project entitled, "The Sociology of Extreme Environments," $2,700 (Principal Investigator). Research Development Grant, Penn State University (1987-1988) for project entitled "The Chronic Technological Disaster: Research Perspectives, " $1,500 (Principal Investigator). Faculty Scholarship Support Grant, Penn State University (1986-1987) for project entitled, "Community Responses to Chronic Technical Disasters," $1,800 (Principal Investigator). Faculty Scholarship Support Grants, Penn State University (1983-1986) Project entitled, "Community in Disaster: Centralia , PA," $5,276 (Principal Investigator). Research Initiation Grant, Penn State University (1982-1983) for project titled, "Community in Disaster: Centralia, PA," $ 5,483 (Principal Investigator). Grant from Pennsylvania National Bank for project entitled "Community In Disaster," (1983) $4000.

Awards Distinguished Service Award, AKD, Sociological Honor Society 2011 Distinguished Record as Editor, Sociological Inquiry 2011, AKD Sociological Honor Society,

2011 American Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution Award for Research in Hazards

and Disasters issued by the Environment and Technology Section of the ASA 2004. Faculty Teaching Fellowship Award, The University of Innsbruck, Austria, Summer 1999.

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Appointed a Research Professor, University of New Orleans, Fall 1998. Co-Authored book, The Real Disaster Is Above Ground, included in CHOICE's Outstanding

Books list, 1992 World Health Organization Fellow, July 1991 to December 1992, Centre for Disaster

Management, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

Invited/Distinguished Lectures (Selected) Uppsala University, “Conference Environmental Illness in the 21st Century,” Keynote Address: “Chemicals, Climate, and the Eco-Symbolic Body, Looking with a Sociological Eye,” September 2020 (Conference was held online.) Louisiana State University, Department of History, Faculty Lecture, “Writing Recovering Inequality,” April 2019 Tulane University, Department of Sociology, Faculty Lecture, “Imagining Disasters in the Age of Climate Change,” November 13, 2018 Princeton University, Department of Sociology, Colloquium Address, “Fashioning “the Looter” Rekindling Racial and Class Kinds in Disaster,” October 25, 2017 Princeton University, Faculty Lecture, “Spatial Accumulation by Dispossession, Two Attempts to Rob the Marginal, A Comparative Case Study,” October 26, 2017 Greensboro Lion’s Club, Guest Speaker, “Hurricane Katrina and Disaster Relief,” September 8, 2016. Yale University, Cultural Studies Program, “Disaster and the Recovery of Inequality in Urban America,” March 2012 Yale University, Department of Sociology, “Chinatown and Public Housing, Disaster and the ‘Creative Destruction’ of Urban Real Estate,” March 2012 College de France, Faculty Address, “Recovering Inequality, A Tale of Two Disasters,” November 2010 College de France, Seminar Address, “Class and Race in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” November 2010 Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal, Invited Address: “A Twisted Tale of Citizenship, San Francisco 1906 & New Orleans 2005,” March 2009 Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Address, Greensboro College. Address: "Water, Death and Social Class in New Orleans” 2006

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Distinguished Lecture, University of Wales, Cardiff, “Technology, the Body and the Myth of Modernity” 2004 Invited Lecture, University of California at Santa Cruz, Lecture Series: “Environments and Social Justice.” Lecture: Environments, Disease, and Disability: Towards a New Populism” 2003. Invited Lecture, “Discovering and Inventing Extreme Environments: Sociological Knowledge and Publics At Risk” Presented at the Mansfield College, Oxford, England, 2000.

Invited Address, University of Heidelberg, Summer Lecture Series, “The Demise of the Accident and the Emergence of the `Drowsy Person’” Summer, 1999. Invited Address, Rockefeller Foundation, Symposium on “Contested Diseases,” Atlanta, Georgia, “Lay Knowledge and Doctor-Patient Controversies,” 1997. Invited Address, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., "The Social Psychology of Toxins in Environments," 1995. Plenary Address, Easter Sociological Society, "Toxic Contamination and the Loss of Civility," 1995. Mid-South Sociological Society, Invited Plenary Address, October, Lafayette, Louisiana. "Toxic Contamination and the Loss of Civility," 1994. International Conference on Environment and Health, Invited Plenary Address, September 1993, Washington, D.C. Paper: "A Few Attorneys, a Couple Experts and a Dozen or More Plaintiffs: A Recipe for Toxic Torts," 1993. Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Address, University of New Orleans. Address: "Sociology and the Loss of Innocence," 1993. Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Address, University of South Alabama. Address: "The Center and the Periphery of Sociology," 1992. Sterling Offices Honorary Lecture, Brisbane, Australia. Paper: "Emerging Hazards and the Culture of Safety in Rural Australia," 1992. Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Address, Penn State University. Address: "The Environment as a Causal Variable in Sociology," 1985. Keynote Speaker, the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Annual Meeting. Address: "The Yeoman Baptist and Slavery in 18th Century Virginia," 1981.

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Selected Academic Service

Department Head, Sociology (2001-2006) Graduate Coordinator, Sociology (1997-2000) Member of Graduate Faculty Council, University Committee (1994 -1999) Member of Liberal Arts College Curriculum Committee to develop an International Studies Major, undergraduate and graduate (1997-2000) Member of Graduate Student Planning Committee, Department of Sociology (1983-1986)

Program Design and Development

Designed a Freshman Seminar: Climate Change and the New Anthropocene (177) (2018) Organized UNCG’s first Student Climate Change Summit. Date: March 29, 2018. (Please see accompanying brochure.)

Designed: Disaster, Self and Society (377) Redesigned a writing intensive course: Disaster, Self and Society (377) Designed: The Sociology of Memory Created a syllabus and taught Soc 490, Seeing Society, Contemporary Theory Designed graduate seminar: The Logic of Social Inquiry (615) Member of an interdisciplinary committee that designed a Liberal Arts College Major in Environmental Studies at UNCG, 2006-2007. Designed a Liberal Arts College minor in Environmental Studies at the University of New Orleans--The minor draws from courses in five separate disciplines and administered in the Department of Sociology, 1997. Designed a graduate seminar in Fieldwork Methods (6471) Designed a special topics course: Sociology of Risk (4098) Designed a special topics course: Environment, Illness and Society (4098) Designed a special topics course: Race, Culture and Intelligence (4098) Organized a symposium titled Race, Culture and Intelligence, the UNO campus October 14, 1997

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Current Graduate Student Committees

Current Chair, Theses Committees: 2 Current Member, Theses Committees: 3 Current Member, Dissertation Committees: 2 Current Chair, Internship Committee: 1

Courses Taught

Environmental Sociology (370) Disaster, Self, and Society (377) Sociological Perspective on Social Psychology (341) Disaster, Self, and Society (377) Health and Society (361) Sociology and Memory (379)

Advanced Topics in Social Psychology (571) The Logic of Social Inquiry (615 Advanced Research Methods (616) Social Stratification and Inequality (601) Thesis Proposal Seminar (593)

Referee (2019)

Journals: Rural Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Problems, Sociological Spectrum, Society and Natural Resources Presses: Temple University Press, Harcourt-Brace Publishers, Pine Forge Press, New York University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, University of Chicago.

2019 College Service

Member, Research Excellence Award Committee Member, Department of Anthropology Travel Grant Committee Member, Humanities Action League Committee

2019 Department Service

Member, The Department of Anthropology Travel Award Committee

2019 Professional Service Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Sociology, 2016-current

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Professional Society Membership

American Sociological Association Southern Sociological Society Applied Anthropology Association