Professional Publications
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2010
With Orum, Anthony: “Austin, TX”. TheNew Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, v 15, Urbanization. (2010)
With Orellana-Rojas: “Theories of Space and Identity: Lessons from Here and Abroad”. Research in Urban Sociology. (2000) 5: 81-109
“Sacred Space in the City: Community Totems and Political Contests”. Research in Community Sociology. (1997) 7: 141-169
With Bartkowski J 1997. God Meets Gaia in Austin, Texas: A Case
Study of Environmentalism as Implicit Religion. Review of Religious Research38(4): 308- 324.
“Trying to Create an ‘Environmental City’: Citizen Action in the Face of the Political Economy of Growth”. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community. (1997)
“Barton Springs, the Environment, and Integration in Austin”. Texas Environmental Center, Austin Texas. (1996)
Conference Papers
"Building the Environmental City: Conservation Strategies in Austin Past and Present". Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2010
“Community and Conflict: the Ideology of ‘Community’ and Integrated Communities”. Association of Humanist Sociology, November 1998.
“Environment and Community: the Integrative Function of Urban Environmental Features”. American Sociological Association, August 1996.
“Trying to Create an ‘Environmental City’: Citizen Action in the Face of the Political Economy of Growth”. 12th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community, October, 1996
“Environmental City? The Emergence of the Environmental Meaning of Austin, Texas”. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1996.
“Structure, Position, and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge”. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1994.
“The Role of the Press in the Growth Machine”. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1993.
“Data Creation in Bureaucracies”. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1993.
Conference Organizing
Earth Charter Summit Steering Committee, Saint Edwards University, 2001
Co-organizer and Presider: Community and Conflict roundtable. American Sociological Association, August 1998.
Session Chair: Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Space. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1998.
Session Chair: Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Space. Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1997.
Co-organizer: Protecting the Edwards Aquifer: Science, Economics, and Citizenship. Austin, October 1997.
Workshop Organizer and Presider, 8th Annual Spirituality and Social Work Conference: “Drumming Up Community; How Drum Circles Connect You to Yourself and Others”. June, 2003
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association
Community and Urban section
Environment section
Southwestern Social Science Association
Teaching Experience
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Traditional Classroom Courses Taught
Race/Ethnic Sociology
Social Inequality/Social Problems
Research Methods
Urban Sociology
Environmental Sociology
Criminology
Social Statistics
Historical Sociology
Social Theory
Social Change
Gerontology
Introduction to Sociology
Online Distance Learning Courses
Race/Ethnic
Criminology
Social Inequality/Social Problems
Blended/Hybrid Courses
Social Inequality/Social Problems
Global Warming
Secondary Education Experience
English as a Second Language for grades 6 -8
El Paso Independent School District.
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
9/01-Present
Adjunct Professor, St. Edwards University
1/93 - present
Adjunct Professor, Austin Community College
1/01-6/01
Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii at Hilo.
8/97 - 12/2000
Adjunct Professor, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas
Related community and non-profit service
RELATED COMMUNITY AND NONPROFIT SERVICE
Executive Committee, Austin Chapter, Sierra Club. 2006-present.
Member, Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee, City of Austin, 2000
Chair, Austin Lands management Alliance 1998-1999
Save Our Springs PAC Board of Directors 1998
Steering Committee, Austin Parks Bonds Organization, 1998