July 28, 2010

SNRE Associate Professor Dorceta E. Taylor has received the Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association.

The award is for Taylor's 2009 book, "The environment and the people in American cities, 1600s-1900s: disorder, inequality, and social change," published by Duke University Press.

The first of a two-part comprehensive review of the complex relationships between political, economic, social and activist forces; class, race and gender; and public health and urban planning, The Environment and the People in American Cities offers an incisive analysis of the growth of American cities from an environmental justice perspective. Associate Professor Taylor, who teaches in SNREí¢â‚¬â„¢s Environmental Justice field of study, identifies deep historic connections between racism and environmental conditions in a provocative portrait of urban inequality.

The Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award is given in alternate years by the Environment and Technology Section of the ASA. It is awarded for publications of special noteworthiness in the field of environmental sociology. In alternate years, publications are considered in either book or article form. This year, the committee considered books published from Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2009.

Dorceta Taylor's faculty profile page: http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/dorceta

More on the book: http://snre.umich.edu/node/8311