Professor of Sociology

Office: LA3015 Phone: 464-1981 Email: szehr

Education

• BA Sociology, 1981, State University of New York, College at Potsdam
• BA Psychology, 1981, State University of New York, College at Potsdam
• MA Sociology, 1983, Indiana University
• PhD Sociology, 1990, Indiana University

Recent Publications

• (2009). “An Environmentalist/Economic Hybrid Frame in U.S. Press Coverage of Climate Change, 2000-2008.” Pgs. 80-91 in Tammy Boyce and Justin Lewis (editors), Climate Change and the Media. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang.

• (2005).  "Comparative Boundary Work: U.S. Acid Rain and Global Climate Change Policy Deliberations."  Science and Public Policy 32 (December): 445-456.
   
• (2000).  "Public representations of scientific uncertainty about global climate change." Public Understanding of Science 9: 85-103.
   
• (1999).  "Scientists' Representations of Uncertainty." Chapter 1 in Friedman, S. M., Dunwoody, S. and Rogers, C. (eds) Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   
• ed. (1999). Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Science, Knowledge, & Technology (3rd ed.). American Sociological Association, Teaching Resources Center.
   
• (1994). "Demolition Derbies and the Ritual Destruction of Technology." Science as Culture, 4: 481-501.
   
• (1994). "Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings." The Sociological Quarterly, 35: 603-619.
   
• (1994). "The Centrality of Scientists and the Translation of Interests in the U.S. Acid Rain Controversy." Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 31: 325-353.
   
• (1994). "Method, Scale and Socio-Technical Networks: Problems of Standardization in Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Research." Science Studies, 7: 47-58.
   
• (1994). "Flexible Interpretations of `Acid Rain' and the Construction of Scientific Uncertainty in Political Settings." Politics and the Life Sciences, 13: 205-216

Research Areas

• Sociology of Climate Change
• Climate Change and the Media
• Environmental Controversies
• Sociology of Science

Teaching Areas

• Sociology of Science & Technology
• Sociology of the Environment
• Sociological Theory
• Social Stratification
• Introduction to Sociology