Jill Harrison

Her research, teaching, and outreach focus on environmental justice, and she also teaches on agricultural and food politics and qualitative research methods. She is especially interested in how government agencies respond to EJ movements and how agencies can be reformed to better support environmental justice. She is conducting a new research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, on government agencies’ use of cumulative impact assessment to foster environmental justice in environmental permit review. She has authored two books: From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies (MIT Press, 2019), which received Honorable Mention for the 2020 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology, and Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Fred Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award from the Rural Sociological Society and the 2012 Association of Humanist Sociology Book Award. She has also authored many articles and chapters in edited volumes. She was a member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the U.S. EPA. She co-founded and has directed CU Boulder’s Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice.