Pierce Greenberg, PhD

Department

Cultural and Social Studies

Position

Assistant Professor

Articles

• Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
  Mail Communications and Survey Response: A Test of Social Exchange Versus Pre-Suasion Theory for Improving Response Rates and Data Quality 2021
• American Sociological Review
  Kevin Estep, Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity.
  85:6, p. 957-991 2020
• Environmental Sociology
  Pierce Greenberg, Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia.
  6:1, p. 54-67 2019
• Energy Research and Social Science
  Pierce Greenberg, Energy consumption boomtowns in the United States: Community responses to a cryptocurrency boom.
  50:(April 2019), p. 162-167 2019
• Society & Natural Resources
  Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia:Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country
  31(9), p. 995-1011 2018
• Routledge
  The US Environmental Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Building Frameworks of Sustainability
  Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability, p. 137-150 2018
• Social Science Research
  In the Shadow of Production: Coal Waste Accumulation and Environmental Inequality Formation in Eastern Kentucky
  71(March 2018), p. 37-55 2018
• Rural Sociology
  Disproportionality and Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: An Analysis of Neighborhood Proximity to Coal Impoundments in Appalachia
  82(1), p. 149-178 2017
• Journal of Appalachian Studies
  Spatial Inequality and Uneven Rural Development: The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia
  22(2), p. 187-209 2016
• Social Currents
  Strengthening Sociological Research Through Public Records Requests
  3(2), p. 110-117 2016

Publications

• Natural Hazards Center Report
  Evictions in Nebraska During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021

Editing and Reviews

• Surveillance and Society
  Book Review: The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden by Lloyd Gardner
  15(2), p. 347-348 2017

Presentations

• Complicating Community Attitudes in Southern West Virginia. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual roundtable. August 7-10, 2021. 2021
• Absentee Landowner Attitudes in Japan: Analyzing Traditional Values About Agricultural Land. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York. August 9-13, 2019. (Co-authored with Yohei Katano and Jon Agnone.) 2019
• Examining the Acceptance of New Resource-based Rural Development across Three Industries. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Richmond, Va. August 7-10, 2019. (Co-authored with Dylan Bugden.) 2019
• The Policy Implications of Rural Poverty Research: Perspectives from the 2019 AECF/RUPRI Rural Poverty Fellowship. Panelist. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Richmond, Va. August 7-10. (Moderated by Emily Wornell.) 2019
• The Lasting Impact of Redlining on Racial Segregation in Omaha. Nebraska GIS/LIS Symposium. La Vista, NE. April 24-26, 2019. 2019
• Risk Perceptions of Coal Impoundments in West Virginia: Industry Trust and Risk Habituation in Appalachia. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Penn. 2018
• Community and Regulatory Response to Cryptocurrency Mining in Washington State. Energy Impacts Summit. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. May 4, 2018. 2018
• The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia. Rural Poverty Research Institute: Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After The People Left Behind. Poster session. Washington, D.C. March 21-22, 2018. 2018
• Policy and Research Workshop: Rethinking Data Collection with Public Records Requests: Perspectives from the U.S. and Canada. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec. August 12-15, 2017. 2017
• Translating Sociological Methods to Marketable Skills: Practical Advice for Professionalization in Undergraduate Methods Instruction. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec. August 12-15, 2017. 2017
• Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia: Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH. July 28-30, 2017. 2017