Jennifer E. Givens

Assistant Professorin Sociology

Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University

Mailing address: 0730 Old Main Hill, Logan UT 84322-0730

Office: 216E Old Main

Office phone:435-797-6368, Department phone: 435-797-2504, Fax: 435-797-1240

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Education

2014 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Dissertation:“Questioning Development: Global Integration and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being”

QualifyingExam 2012: The Political Economy of Environmental Sociology (passed with distinction)

QualifyingExam 2011: Comparative International Sociology (passed with distinction)

2013 Graduate Certificate in Demography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2010M.S. Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Thesis: “National Affluence, Economic Growth, and Environmental Degradation: A Multilevel Analysis of Environmental Concern”

2003M.Ed. Education, certification: High School English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2000 B.S. Business, Marketing, Minor: Art, Northeastern University, Boston, MA summa cum laude

Academic Employment

2016-presentAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University,

Logan, UT

2015-2016Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Research Interests

  • Environmental Sociology, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Climate Change
  • Comparative International Sociology, Political Economy, Global and Transnational Sociology
  • Development and Well-being, Human Rights, State-Society Relationships, Military Sociology

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Givens, Jennifer E. 2015. “Urbanization, Slums, and the Carbon Intensity of Well-being: Implications for Sustainable Development.” Human Ecology Review22(1):107-128.(2015 impact factor: .86)

Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Jennifer E. Givens. 2015. “The Changing Effect of Economic Development on the Consumption-Based Carbon Intensity of Well-Being, 1990–2008.”PLOS ONE 10(5): e0123920, 1-14.(2015impact factor: 3.057)

Givens, Jennifer E. 2014 (invited). “Sociology: Drivers of Climate Change Beliefs.” Nature Climate Change 4(12):1051-1052. (2015impact factor: 17.184)

Givens, Jennifer E. 2014.“Global Climate Change Negotiations, the Treadmill of Destruction, and World Society: An Analysis of Kyoto Protocol Ratification.” International Journal of Sociology 44(2):7-36. (Impact factor currently unavailable)

Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Jennifer E. Givens. 2014.“Economic Globalization and Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis of Individuals within 37 Nations.” Environment and Behavior46(7):848-871. (2015impact factor: 2.892)

Givens, Jennifer E. and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2013. “Individual Environmental Concern in the World Polity: A Multilevel Analysis.” Social Science Research 42(2):418-431. (2015impact factor: 1.770)

Jorgenson, Andrew K., Brett Clark, and Jennifer Givens. 2012. “The Environmental Impacts of Militarization in Comparative Perspective: An Overlooked Relationship.” Nature and Culture 7(3):314-337. (2015impact factor: 1.931)

Givens, Jennifer E. and Andrew Jorgenson. 2011. “The Effects of Affluence, Economic Development, and Environmental Degradation on Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis.” Organization & Environment 24(1):74-91. (2017impact factor: 2.650)

Givens, Jennifer. 2011. “The Treadmill of Destruction: Does State Militarization Help Explain Kyoto Protocol Ratification?” Social Dialogue 3:25-30. (Impact factor currently unavailable)

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Givens, Jennifer, Brett Clark, and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2016 (invited). “Strengthening the Ties Between Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Development.” Pp. 69-94, in Sociology of Development Handbook, edited by Paul Almeida, David Brown, Sam Cohn, Sara Curran, Rebecca Emigh, Greg Hooks, Ho-fung Hung, Andrew Jorgenson, Richard Lachmann, Linda Lobao, and Valentine Moghadam. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Givens, Jennifer E., and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2015. “Global Integration and Carbon Emissions, 1965-2005.” Pp. 168-183, in Overcoming Global Inequalities, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Christian Suter. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Press.

Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Jennifer Givens. 2014. “The Emergence of New World-Systems Perspectives on Global Environmental Change.” Pp. 31-44 in Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, edited by Stewart Lockie, David Sonnenfeld, and Dana Fisher. New York: Routledge Press.

Other Scholarly Publications

Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Jennifer E. Givens. 2012. “Water Pollution.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer. Wiley-Blackwell.

Invited Presentations

Jennifer Givens. Militarization and the Environment: Opportunities in Comparative International Research. The Fourth Annual Jergens Undergraduate Lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, OH, March 24, 2017.

Jennifer Givens. Global Integration and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being of Nations. Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO) public seminar and Honors College forum, Washington State University, November 2015.

Presentations

Jennifer Givens. World Society and Polity Integration and National Production and Consumption Carbon Intensity of Well-being. American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2016.

Jennifer Givens.Analyzing the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being of Nation-States: A Cross National Analysis, 1990-2011. American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2015.

Jennifer Givens.Global Integration and the Carbon Intensity of Well-being. Society for Human Ecology Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine,October 2014.

Jennifer Givens.Sustainable Development, Ecologically Unequal Exchange, and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being. American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting,San Francisco, CA, August 2014.

Jennifer Givens. World Economic and World Society Integration and the Ecological Efficiency of Well-Being. Global and Transnational Society Mini-Conference, The Future of World Society Theory,Stanford, CA, August 2015.

Jennifer Givens. Global Integration and Local Circumstances: Linking Environmental and Social Well-being. Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting,Portland, OR, March 2014.

Jennifer Givens.Questioning Development: Well-being and the Environment. Sociology of Development Conference, University of Utah, October 2013.

Jennifer Givens.Global Integration and Carbon Emissions, 1965-2005 with Andrew K. Jorgenson PhD. 2013 PEWS Spring Conferencein partnership with the World Society Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland held at the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside, April 12-14 2013.

Jennifer Givens.Individual Environmental Concern in the World Polity: A Multilevel Analysis (based on a paper worked on with Andrew K. Jorgenson) American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting,Denver, CO, August 2012.

Jennifer Givens.The Treadmill of Destruction and the World Polity: Using State Militarization and World Polity Connections to Explain Kyoto Protocol Ratification Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012.

Jennifer Givens. Individual Environmental Concern in the World Polity: A Multilevel Analysis (based on a paper worked on with Andrew K. Jorgenson) Heterodox Economics Student Association Visiting Scholar Talk on Greenhouse Gas and Economic Growth, Economics Department, University of Utah, November 2011.

Jennifer Givens.The Effects of Country Level Variables, including Affluence, Economic Development, Environmental Degradation, and World Polity Connections on Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis (based on a paper worked on with Andrew K. Jorgenson) American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.

Jennifer Givens.The Treadmill of Destruction: Does State Militarization Help Explain Kyoto Protocol Ratification? Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2011.

Jennifer Givens. The Slow Food Movement: Globalization from Below Western Social ScienceAssociation(WSSA) Annual Meeting,Salt Lake City, UT, 2011.

Jennifer Givens. Environmental Values: Individual and Country-Level Determinants Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, 2010.

Jennifer Givens.The Perception of Environmental Problems and the Image of Technology as a Solution Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI),Colorado Springs, CO, 2009.

Grants

2016 NSF Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) (NSF 16-524). Awarded 9/15/2016. Title: Envisioning a framework for institution-wide collaboration to increase resilience in food-energy-water systems. Jennifer Adam, PI; Interdisciplinary team at Washington State University: $2,687,614; sub-award to Utah State University: $175,931 over four years (ends 8/31/2020).

Additional Professional Training

2016 Utah State University, Write Winning Grant Proposals one-day seminar, October 2016.

2015 Washington State University sponsored COMPASS Science Communication Training 2-day workshop.

2015 WSU CAS National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Boot Camp.

2015 Statistical Horizons Structural Equation Modeling Seminar, Atlanta, GA.

2015 University of Arizona Methods Workshops, 1. Data Management and 2. QCA, Tucson, AZ.

2013 University of Colorado, Short Course in Environmental Demography, Boulder, CO.

2012 Statistical Horizons Multilevel Modeling Seminar, Philadelphia, PA.

Professional Memberships

  • American Sociological Association (ASA)
  • International Sociological Association (ISA)
  • International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR)
  • Society for Human Ecology (SHE)

Teaching Experience

Graduate:

  • Sociology 6620 Environment, Technology, and Social Change, Utah State University
  • Sociology 521 Regression Analysis, Washington State University

Undergraduate:

  • Sociology 1010 Introduction to Sociology, Utah State University (spring 2017)
  • Sociology 2650 Globalization, Utah State University (spring 2017)
  • Sociology 101 Introduction to Sociology, Washington State University
  • Sociology 1010 Introduction to Sociology, University of Utah
  • Sociology 1010 Introduction to Sociology (online), University of Utah
  • Sociology 3480 Environmental Sociology, University of Utah
  • Sociology 3480 Environmental Sociology (online), University of Utah
  • Environmental Studies 2100 Intro to Environment & Sustainability (online), University of Utah
  • Environmental Studies 3364 Challenges to Global Sustainability (online), University of Utah

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