Kari Norgaard

Kari is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon.  She works in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements, and sociology of emotions.  Her current lines of active research are 1) work on the social organization of denial (especially regarding climate change), and 2)environmental justice work with Native American Tribes on the Klamath River. She is also author of Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life (MIT 2011).