Social Sciences Division
Associate Professor
Faculty
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
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Monday 2-4pm (online)
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Hillary Angelo is an urban-environmental sociologist who studies understandings of the environment and their relationship to large-scale spatial and social transformations. Her work offers a social-theoretical perspective on socio-ecological questions through both historical and contemporary research on urban greening, sustainability planning and policy, infrastructure, and climate change. Her research is also particularly attuned to the politics of the built environment: how natural and human-made environments mediate experience to produce particular understandings of society.
Hillary received her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and holds a B.A. from Vassar College. Before completing her PhD, she worked for five years with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, primarily on issues of participatory design, immigration, and public space use.
Urbanization, nature, infrastructure, sustainability, democracy and public space, urban and environmental sociology, social theory, visual and historical methods, climate change, public lands and the energy transition
See my website (hillaryangelo.com) for current CV and additional information about my research. Photo credit: Andrea Kane, Institute for Advanced Study.