Speaker: Andrew Jorgenson, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies, Boston College
“Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Impact of Development on Carbon Emissions”

Andrew Jorgenson is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies at Boston College. Working in the areas of environmental sociology, global political economy, and the sociology of development, he conducts research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change. His work appears in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Social Problems, Nature Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters, Sustainability Science, Global Environmental Politics, and Science of the Total Environment. He is coauthor of Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions, published by Columbia University Press. In 2020, he received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology. He coedits Sociology of Development, a journal published by University of California Press.