Dr. Carolan is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts. Other appointments include: Distinguished Fulbright Research Chair, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Professor of Political Science (Status-Only), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and Research Affiliate, Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has published over 200 peer review articles and chapters. His areas of expertise include environmental and agricultural law and policy, environmental sociology, the sociology of food systems and agriculture, economic sociology, and the sociology of technology and scientific knowledge. He recently published the following books: A Sociological Look at Biofuels: Understanding the Past/Prospects for the Future (2010); Decentering Biotechnology: Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked (2010); Embodied Food Politics (2011); The Real Cost of Cheap Food (2011; second edition 2018); The Sociology of Food and Agriculture(2012 1st ed/2016 2nd ed); Reclaiming Food Security (2013); Cheaponomics: The High Cost of Low Prices (2014); Food Utopias: Reimagining Citizenship, Ethics and Community (2015 with Paul Stock and Chris Rosin); Biological Economies: Experimentation and the Politics of Agrifood Frontiers (2016; with Richard LeHeron, Hugh Campbell, and Nick Lewis); No One Eats Alone: Food as Social Enterprise (2017); The Food Sharing Revolution:How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat (2018); and Society and the Environment: Pragmatic Solutions to Ecological Issues (2013 1st ed/2016 2nd ed, 2020 3rd ed). Dr. Carolan is also Co-Editor for the Journal of Rural Studies (Impact Factor of 2.444), Co-Editor for the British Food Journal(starting Sept 2019), Associate Editor for the journal Society and Natural Resources (Impact Factor of 2.72), and Associate Editor for the journal Sustainability (Impact Factor, 1.789).
Additionally, Dr. Carolan regularly writes pieces for public audiences, as he works to bridge the town-gown divide. His pieces regularly appear in such outlets as The Conversation, Bloomberg, Market Watch, Mental Floss, Business Insider, Alternet, World Economic Forum, Houston Chronicle, Bangor Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Magazine, Salon, The Independent, Market Watch, Scroll.in, and New Food Economy (some of these articles have registered over 150,000 reads!). He also routinely makes radio and television appearances around the world, having been featured on the popular CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation) program Ideas, NPR, Radio New Zealand, and TVNZ-One (TV New Zealand).
Send questions, comments and corrections to info@creativewritingmfa.info.
Disclaimer: No endorsement of these ratings should be implied by the writers and writing programs listed on this site, or by the editors and publishers of Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.