Associate Professor Rebecca Scott Awarded Affiliate Status in the Department of Geography

Rebecca Scott

Rebecca Scott, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded affiliate faculty status within the geography department. This one-year adjunct faculty position, a courtesy appointment, began on Jan. 1, 2020.

As an affiliate faculty member, Scott — selected due to the “strong, mutually beneficial linkages” she already has with the department — will serve on graduate committees and will also serve in an advisory capacity to searches for faculty positions held within the department.

Scott’s areas of study include “environmental inequality; settler culture; gender, race, and class; nature, place and embodiment; material culture; critical masculinity and whiteness studies; property; fossil fuels; mining; fracking; regionalization, racialization and national identity,” according to the sociology website.

She has a PhD from the University of California-Santa Cruz, has won many awards, and has featured works in a dozen or more publications.