JEREMY SORGEN

Jeremy Sorgen is a community-based and environmental scholar with interests in community-based solutions to environmental problems. He completed his PhD in religious studies at the University of Virginia and postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. He applies community-based research methods to advancing equitable policy solutions for environmental justice groups. Currently, he is working with Tribal and local governments in California on challenges around Tribal cultural resource management and land use planning. Sorgen is also leading a conversation series and special issue project on “engaged scholarship” in the environmental humanities. His publications have appeared in several top-ranking journals in the humanities and social sciences, and his research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. His book project, titled Research in Relationship: Community-Based Research and Environmental Action, combines philosophy of science and original community-based research to investigate the ethics and pragmatics of knowledge co-production within environmental studies.