Ryan Wishart, MA, PhD

Program Director, Sociology Program

Assistant Professor

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Contact

RyanWishart@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Cultural & Social Studies
Sociology
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 440A

Ryan Wishart, MA, PhD

Program Director, Sociology Program

Assistant Professor

Ryan Wishart grew up in east Tennessee and earned interdisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Wishart joined Creighton’s department of Cultural and Social Studies in 2014 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. He is also a faculty member in the Environmental Science and Sustainability Studies programs.  In addition to teaching introductory courses on sociology and social problems, he teaches courses on social and cultural theory, environmental sociology, and political sociology. His research has focused on the social and ecological problems associated with coal extraction in the rural Appalachian region, social movements, and elite political organization and mobilization.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

extractive economies, ecology, and development
social networks and environmental politics

Department

Cultural and Social Studies

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Climate Obstruction
    Schneider Jen, Wesseling Joeri, Bsumek Peter K, Trencher Gregory, Downie Christian, Gellert Paul K, Mattioli Giulio, Monios Jason, Newell Peter, Peeples Jennifer, Williams Emily, Wishart Ryan, Youriev Ben, How Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Impede Climate Action [Book Chapter] 2025
  • Handbook on Inequality and the Environment
    Wishart Ryan, Greenberg Pierce, Coal and environmental inequality [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Foster John Bellamy, Burkett Paul, Wishart Ryan, Marx and the earth 2016
  • Transforming Places : Lessons from Appalachia
    Pfleger Cassie Robinson, Pfleger Randal, Wishart Ryan, Cooper Dave, Mountain justice [Book Chapter] 2012

Publications

  • Environmental sociology
    Greenberg Pierce, Wishart Ryan, Danielsen Sabrina, Driving environmental inequality: the unequal harms and benefits of highways, p. 1 - 14 2024
  • Journal for the scientific study of religion
    Greenberg Pierce, Danielsen Sabrina, Wishart Ryan, Using Large‐Scale Location Data to Examine Racial Diversity and Segregation in Church Attendees’ Home Neighborhoods 2024
  • Energy Research and Social Science
    Wishart Ryan, Class capacities and climate politics
    48, p. 151 - 165 2019
  • Social Science Research
    Liévanos Raoul S., Greenberg Pierce, Wishart Ryan, In the shadow of production
    71, p. 37 - 55 2018
  • Wishart Ryan, Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia 2013
  • Organization and Environment
    Wishart Ryan, Coal River's Last Mountain
    25:4, p. 470 - 485 2012
  • Monthly Review
    Wishart Ryan, Heinberg's new coal question
    62:8, p. 53 - 61 2011

Grants

  • Crumbling Fossil Foundations? Power Shifts in the Energy Policy Planning Network/Sponsor: CURAS Faculty Research Fund

Awards

  • Graduate School Research Award for Publication
    University of Oregon
  • Wayne Morse Center For Law and Politics Dissertation Fellow
    University of Oregon