Division of Social Sciences
In the weeks following 9/11, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder sociologist Lori Peek was in New York City hearing the stories of Muslim Americans navigating suspicion, hostility and questions of identity and belonging.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder sociologist shines light on understudied area of wildfire research: how wildland firefighting fatalities affect the people on the front lines.
For Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder scholar Shawn Trenell O’Neal, the outpouring of grief over Dolly Parton’s death in Black communities bespeaks the legend’s humanity and allyship.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder political scientist Sarah Wilson Sokhey says the underlying lesson of the nuclear catastrophe is that the risk has not gone away—and that such disasters don’t recognize national borders.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers ask who decides to stay behind when climate disaster strikes.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek says there are still lessons to be learned from the devastating flash flood, 50 years later.
How the development of solar and wind farms on the Tibetan Plateau is affecting local communities.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder political scientists find that far-right voters in Austria were less angry after electoral success while many mainstream voters correspondingly became more angry.
In South Sudan, change happens when girls pick up books, says Micklina Kenyi.