Ryan Wishart, MA, PhD
Program Director, Sociology Program
Assistant Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Cultural & Social Studies
Sociology
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building
Ryan Wishart, MA, PhD
Program Director, Sociology Program
Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Sociology
Research Focus
extractive economies, ecology, and developmentsocial networks and environmental politics
Department
Cultural and Social Studies
Position
Assistant Professor
Articles
- Energy Research and Social Science
“Class Capacities and Climate Politics: Coal and Conflict in the United States Energy Policy-Planning Network”
48, p. 151-165 2019 - Kendall Hunt
Jones, Robert Emmet and Ryan Wishart. 2018. Introduction to Environmental Justice. Pp. 122-128 in Social Justice and the Sociological Imagination: A Reader for the 21st Century, third edition, Sherry Cable and Tyler Wall (eds.). Dubuque, Iowa: 2018 - Social Science Research
Liévanos, Raoul S., Pierce Greenberg, and Ryan Wishart. “In the Shadow of Production: Coal waste accumulation and environmental inequality formation in Eastern Kentucky.”
71, p. 37-55 2018 - Organization & Environment
Coal River's Last Mountain: King Coal's Apres moi le deluge Reign
25(4), p. 467-482 2012 - University of Illinois Press
Pfleger Robinson, Cassie, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave Cooper. “Mountain Justice: A Grassroots Effort to End Mountain Top Removal.” in Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia edited by Stephen Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith. 2012
Editing and Reviews
- Brill
Editorial Assistant for Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett. 2016 - Journal of Historical Geography
Review of Mountains of Injustice edited by Michele Morrone and Geoffrey L. Buckley
39(3) 2013 - Monthly Review
“Heinberg’s New Coal Question.” Review of Blackout, by Richard Heinberg.
62(8), p. 53-61 2011
Presentations
- Jameson, Cade, Ryan Wishart and Chris Hardnack. 2018. "Defensive Environmentalism and Radical Social Change." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2018
- "The Coal Coalition and Energy Policy Planning Network in 2009: Class Capacities and Climate Politics." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, Washington. 2016
- with Paul Gellert. "Political and Legal Aspects of Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Comparing Histories of Access to Coalfields of Appalachia and Kalimantan." Presented at Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Historical and Comparative Perspective. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2015
- "Internal Peripheries and Modes of Extraction: Appalachia's Persistence as an Internal Periphery." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Illinois. 2015
- "The 'green economy' and 'coal country': federal and state level reproduction of a contested mode of extraction." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, New York. 2013
- Invited Lecture -- "The Coal Coalition in the Age of Monopoly-Finance Capital." A Food for Thought Discussion Forum presented by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Cosponsored by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, Land Air Water, the Department of Sociology, and the Environmental Studies Program 2012
- "Apres moi le deluge: King Coals Reign on Coal River Mountain." Presented at Dimensions of Political Ecology: a Conference on Nature and Society. Lexington, Kentucky. 2011
- "Surface Coal Mining and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Rural Appalachia." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta, Georgia. 2010
- "Transforming Places: Lessons in Movement-building from Appalachia." Invited panelist at the Annual Meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association. Dahlonega, Georgia. 2010
- "Environmental Justice, Organized Labor, and the Treadmill of Accumulation in the Coalfields of Appalachia." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Boston, MA, July 2008
Awards
- Graduate School Research Award for Publication
University of Oregon - Wayne Morse Center For Law and Politics Dissertation Fellow
University of Oregon