J. STEVEN PICOU
November 2012
CURRENT ADDRESS
HOME:
31433 River Road
Orange Beach, AL 36561-5729
(251) 980-1740
OFFICE:
Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center
TRP Building 3, Suite 2500
University of South Alabama
Mobile, Alabama 36688
(251) 460-7118
FAX: (251) 461-1727
E-Mail: spicou@usouthal.edu; picou@centurytel.net
Website: www.stevenpicou.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1971.
Major: Sociology
Minor: Cultural Anthropology
M.A., Louisiana State University, 1969.
Major: Sociology
Minor: Cultural Anthropology
B.A., Southeastern Louisiana University, 1967 (Honor Graduate).
Major: Sociology
Minor: History
RESEARCH/TEACHING
Areas of Research: Environmental Sociology; Disasters; Applied Sociology; Social Impact
Assessment; Organizational Design; Research Methodology; Community Studies.
Areas of Teaching: Environmental Sociology; Applied Sociology; Sociology of Disasters, Social
Stratification; Social Psychology; Social Organization; Sociology of Education; People and
Organizations; Sociological Theory (Classical, Contemporary and Metatheory); Sport
Sociology; Community; Social Problems; Research Design; Principles of Sociology; Social
Impact Assessment.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2012 – Present
Director, Community Health Workers Training Program, Coastal Resource and Resiliency Center,
and Professor of Sociology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (tenured).
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2008 – 2012
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of
South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (Tenured).
1988-2008
Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work,
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (Tenured).
Responsibilities and duties as chair included the administration of an undergraduate
and graduate (MA) academic department of fifteen full-time faculty, nine part-time
faculty, and a budget of $1,227,316. The Department had approximately 245
undergraduate majors and 20 graduate students. Research administration and
program development activities in cooperation with the Dean of College of Arts and
Sciences were also part of the Chair's activities. During this time, departmental
development has resulted in the Center for Archaeological Studies,
Sociology/Anthropology Instructional Laboratory, USA Programs in Gerontology
and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work. These programs are administered through
the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work.
Adjunct Scientist, Copper River Delta Institute, U.S. Forest Service, Cordova, Alaska.
Affiliate Scientist, Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova, Alaska.
Adjunct Scientist, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State,
Mississippi.
Research Fellow, Social Science Research Institute, University of Central Florida, Orlando,
Florida.
1987-1988
Executive Director of Management Design, Douglas and Associates International, Inc., Dallas,
Texas and Consultant, Picou and Associates Consulting Services, College Station, Texas.
Responsibilities and duties included the administration and implementation of
projects in basic, applied and programmatic areas. Other activities included
participation in marketing, financial planning, public relations programs and
organizational performance improvement systems. Organizational consultant for
Solomon Associates, Inc., Dallas, Texas.
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1974-1987
Associate Professor to Professor of Sociology, Sociology Department, Texas A&M University
(Tenured).
Responsibilities and duties included teaching courses, conducting research and
serving as Graduate Advisor in the Department of Sociology. Administrative
responsibilities as graduate advisor included: (1) organizational design and
management of graduate program (M.A.; Ph.D.); (2) advisor to graduate students;
(3) director of graduate admissions and graduate program committees; (4)
recruitment of scholarship students; and (5) curriculum development.
1986
Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts June-August, 1986.
Administrative responsibilities included research and program development,
supervising graduate research and graduate studies, general fund raising, facilitating
cooperative research activities and proposal preparation. Served as assistant to the
Dean in general administrative matters.
1971-1974
Research Specialist in Sociology of Education, The National Center for Vocational Education,
and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio.
Responsibilities included proposal preparation and administration of all phases of a
series of interdisciplinary research projects on the interpersonal structure for
educational and career knowledge of inner-city youth. The basic objective of this
research was the identification of interpersonal networks that enhanced the career
learning skills of disadvantaged, African-American and Native-American youth.
Responsibilities also included cooperative research activities with vocational
psychologists, economists and representatives of external funding agencies. This
research led to the development of the Career Education Community Based Learning
Module. I also taught courses in education, theory and minority relations in the
Department of Sociology.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND OFFICES
Graduate Student Member, Development Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 1970.
Invited Participant, National Workshop for the Rural Disadvantaged, Washington, D.C.:
National Science Foundation, October, 1972.
Secretariat, Educational Policy Seminar, Third World Congress for Rural Sociology, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., 1972.
Participant and Resource Person for National Conference on Career Education: Implications
for Minorities. February 1-3, Washington, D.C., Sponsors: National Institute of Education and
Office of Education, 1973.
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Organizer and Director of Workshop entitled: Interpersonal Influence as Guidance. For teachers
and educational personnel of Franklin County, Columbus, Ohio. The National Center for
Vocational Education, November, 1974.
Presented keynote addresses at meetings of the North American Society for Sport Sociology and
National Planning Council Executives Group, 1975.
Co-recipient of Sociological Spectrum Award for Outstanding Article, Mid-South Sociological
Association, October, 1992.
President, Mid-South Sociological Association, 1995.
Executive Council (One year elected term) Society for Applied Sociology, 1996.
Chair, Environment and Technology Section, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 19982000 (Elected Office).
Vice-President, Alpha Kappa Delta, International Honor Society for Sociology. 2001-2003.
Recipient, Distinguished Contribution Award, presented by the Section on Environment and
Technology of the American Sociological Association for research on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,
2001.
Presented Keynote Address to the Earth Carter Summit, University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh),
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, September, 2002.
Presented Keynote Address to the Alaska People’s Forum, March, 2003.
Advisory Board, Sociological Practice Section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2007.
Advisory Board, Association or Applied and Clinical Sociology, 2004-2008.
Member, American Sociological Association, Katrina Task Force, 2005-present.
Member, American Sociological Association, Gulf Coast Disaster Research Team., 2005-present.
Presented Keynote Address to the Alaska Forum on the Environment, February, 2009.
NATIONAL AWARDS
2001
Recipient, Distinguished Contribution Award, American Sociological Association, Section
on Environment and Technology, August.
2008
Recipient, William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological
Association Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, August.
2008
Recipient, Olivia Rambo Glothern USA National Alumni Association Outstanding
Scholar Award, September.
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
State Membership Chairman, Southern Sociological Society, 1974-1977.
Membership Committee, Southwestern Sociological Association, 1974-1977.
Program Committee, Theory Section, Southwestern Sociological Association, 1974; 1982; 1983.
Liaison Committee to the American Association for Advancement of Science, Rural
Sociological Society, 1976-78.
Program Steering Committee, Southwestern Sociological Association, 1976; 1977; 1995.
Representative, American Sociological Association, Review Panel on Community Education
Handbook. Dallas, Texas, January, 1978.
Program Committee, Rural Sociological Society Meetings, 1978, 1979, 1981.
Committee on the Profession, Southwestern Sociological Association, 1979.
Publication Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 1980-1982.
Area Representative, American Sociological Association, 1988-1990.
Chair, Nominations Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association, 1990-1991.
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President-Elect and Program Chair, Mid-South Sociological Association, 1994.
Member, Program Committee, Southwestern Sociological Association, 1994.
Member, Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 1996-1998.
Chair, Committee on the Profession, Southern Sociological Society, 1996-98.
Member, Committee on Ethics, Society for Applied Sociology, 1996.
Member, Nominations Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association, 1996-97.
Member, Committee on Sociological Practice, Southern Sociological Society, 1999-2001.
Member, Committee to Review the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Program, National
Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2000-2002.
Area Representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Rural
Sociological Society, 2001-2004.
Co-chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association, 2004.
Member, Program Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association, 2005.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association, 2007.
President, Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology, 2009-2010.
Member, AdHoc Committee on Recruitment, Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology,
2009-2010.
Member, ASA/SSRC Katrina Task Force, 2007-Present
Member, Alabama Coastal Recovery Commission, Higher Education Subcommittee, 2010
Editorial Boards
Member, Editorial Board, Rural Studies Series, Wadsworth Press, 1980-1982.
Associate Editor, Rural Sociology. 1976-1978.
Associate Editor, Sociology of Education. 1978-1981.
Associate Editor, Sport Sociology Journal, 1983-1986.
Senior Editor, Youth and Society. 1984-1988.
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Sociology, 1988-90.
Co-Editor, Sociology of Sport, Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual. 19852004.
Editorial Board, Sociological Practice, 1997-1999
Editorial Board, Annual Review of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics, HardinSimmons University 1998-Present.
Textbook Reviewer for: Jossey-Bass Publishers; Longman Press; The Dorsey Press; Holt,
Rhinehart and Winston; Allyn and Bacon; Prentice-Hall; Basic Books.
Editorial reader for Sociology of Education; Rural Sociology; Social Forces; Social Science
Quarterly; Sociological Forum; Journal of Vocational Behavior; Sociological Focus; Research
Quarterly in Exercise and Sport; Sociological Quarterly; Deviant Behavior; Sport Sociology
Journal; Administrative Science Quarterly; Sociological Spectrum; Sociological
Methodology; Louisiana Business Journal; Sociological Inquiry; Journal of Traumatic Stress;
Journal of Applied Sociology; Society and Natural Resources; Sociological Practice, Symbolic
Interaction.
Proposal Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Office of Education, Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant and Arctic Resource Consortium of the United States, among others.
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HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Alpha Kappa Delta
Gamma Sigma Delta
Phi Kappa Phi
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
(Various memberships from 1971 to present)
American Sociological Association
Society for Applied Sociology
Mid-South Sociological Association
Rural Sociological Society
Southern Sociological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociological Practice Association
Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology
International Association for Society and Natural Resources
Southwestern Social Science Association
SELECTED CONSULTANT ACTIVITIES
National Advisory Council, Contemporary Research Incorporated, Los Angeles, California,
1973-1975.
Advisory Council, Communication Research Services, East Lansing, Michigan, 1975-1977.
Advisory Council, Opinion Dynamics, Albany, New York, 1977-1989.
Evaluation Consultant, Central Texas Health Systems Agency, Inc. Austin, Texas, 1978-1982.
Consultant, National Institute of Education, Washington, D.C., 1973-76.
Consultant, National Center for Vocational Education, Columbus, Ohio, 1974-1988.
Consultant, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1976- present.
Consultant, Gulf South Research Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1978-1984.
Board of Directors, Mental Health Services and Research, Incorporated, affiliated with Holy
Cross Hospital, Austin, Texas, 1987-1989.
Advisory Board, National Metropolitan Area Study, Florence, Alabama, 1987.
Consultant, Solomon Associates, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 1988-1993.
Consultant, Regional Citizens= Advisory Council, Community Impacts Subcommittee,
Anchorage, Alaska, 1994-1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses: Introductory Sociology; Social Problems; Industrial Sociology;
American Minority Relations; Sociological Theory; Collective Behavior; Sociology of Education;
Social Research and Methodology; Counter-Culture Movements in American Society (Honors
Course); Sociology of Sport; Cross Cultural Patterns in Inter-Group Relations; Sociology of
Disasters; People and Organizations; Human Ecology; Environmental Sociology; Applied
Sociology.
Graduate Courses: Sociological Theory (Classical Theory and Sociology of Sociology); Conflict
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Sociology; Social Stratification; Research Methodology; Sociology of Education; Comparative
Ethnic Relations; Sociology of Disasters; Applied Sociology; People and Organizations; Sociology
of Sport; Environmental Sociology; Social Impact Assessment.
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ohio State University
Member, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects.
Member, Departmental Honors Committee
Texas A&M University
Faculty Co-Sponsor for Sociology Club, 1974-1976.
Faculty Sponsor for Alpha Kappa Delta, 1974-1982.
Chair, Graduate Programs Committee, Department of Sociology, 1975-1985.
Member, Committee on Recruitment, Department of Sociology, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1986.
Chair, Graduate College Mini-Grant Committee, 1980-1982.
Round Table Co-Chair, SCONA 21, University Symposium, 1981.
Member, Committee on Graduate Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, 1981-1983.
Member, University Committee on Academic Responsibility, Freedom and Tenure, 1984-1986.
Charter Member, Friends of the Faculty Committee, 1985.
University of South Alabama
Member, University Research Council, 1988-1990.
Faculty Sponsor, Sociology Club, 1989-1991.
Chair, Search Committee for Senior Vice-President of Academic Affairs, 1994-95.
Vice-Chair, Search Committee for Senior Vice-President of Academic Affairs, 1995-96.
Member, Search Committee for Senior Vice-President of Academic Affairs, 1997-98.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for USA Professorships, 1997-1998.
Member, Academic Discipline Committee for Sociology, Anthropology and Human Geography,
State of Alabama Articulation and General Studies Committee, 1998-2000.
Chair, Enhanced Discipline Committee for Sociology, Anthropology and Human Geography, State
of Alabama Articulation and General Studies Committee, 1998-2000.
Member, University Student Retention Committee, 1999-2000.
Faculty Sponsor for Alpha Kappa Delta, 1991- present.
University Representative to The Rhodes Scholarship Trust Fund, 1991-2000.
Member, Internal Review Board, Sickle Cell Center, College of Medicine, 1990-1994.
Chair, Mathematics and Statistics Chair Search Committee, 2003.
Chair, Political Science and Criminal Justice Chair Search Committee, 2005.
Member, USA Honorary Doctorate Selection Committee, 2004-Present.
Member, GASP Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2010
I have chaired seventeen (17) Masters and Ph.D. committees in Sociology. I have served on
approximately fifty-five (55) additional graduate student committees. I have also served as
graduate college representative on numerous M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. committees, at Texas A&M
University.
MASTER OF ARTS THESIS CHAIR (USA Only)
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Ginger Leigh Gossman. Understanding Tribal Organization: How Does the Federal
Recognition Process Affect a Native American Community. December 1998.
Timothy Scott McNally. Technological Disaster and Chronic Psychological Stress: An
Evaluation of the Conservation of Resources Stress Model. August 1997.
Floyd H. Dennard, Jr., Long-Term Community Impacts of a Technological Disaster: The
Valdez Oil Spill. August 1997.
PUBLICATIONS
1970
"Occupational Projections of Louisiana Black High School Seniors," Education and
Urban Society Vol. 2, No. 4 (August 2): 459-468 (with G. S. Tracy and P. F.
Hernandez).
1970
"Attitudes of Black Mississippi Educators Toward Faculty Desegregation," Human
Mosaic Vol. 4, No. 2 (May): 39-48 (with J. Barefoot and A. G. Cosby).
1971
"Vocational Expectations of Adolescents in Four Deep South States," Vocational
Guidance Quarterly Vol. 19, No. 3 (Winter): 177-181 (with A. G. Cosby).
1971
"Agricultural Students and Anticipatory Occupational Goal Deflection," Rural
Sociology Vol. 36, No. 2 (June): 211-214 (with A. G. Cosby).
1971
"Rural Youth and Anticipatory Occupational Goal Deflection," Journal of
Vocational Behavior Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 2): 317-330 (with E. W. Curry).
1971
"Social Origins, Occupational Goals and Southern Youth," Youth and Society Vol.
2, No. 1 (March): 60-72 (with A. G. Cosby).
1972
"The Social Psychologies of Blacks and Whites: Different Paths to Educational
Achievement Expectations," Journal of Afro-American Issues Vol. 1 (Summer)
(with E. W. Curry, A. G. Cosby and G. Olivero).
1973
"Black-White Variations in a Model of the Occupational Aspiration Process,"
Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Spring): 117-222.
1973
"The Formation of Educational Goals: A Causal Model," Urban Education, Vol. 7,
No. 4 (January 6): 383-392.
1973
"Structural, Interpersonal and Behavioral Correlates of Female Adolescents,
Occupational Choices," Adolescence Vol. 8, No. 31 (Fall): 420-432 (with E. W.
Curry).
1973
"Structural Models and Occupational Aspirations: Black-White Variations Among
Deep-South Adolescents," Journal of Vocational Behavior Vol. 3, No.1 (January
3): 1-14 (with A.G. Cosby).
"Occupational Projections and Perceived Blockage Factors: A Delinquent,
Non-Delinquent Comparison of Black Male Adolescents," Adolescence Vol. 9, No.
1974
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34 (Summer): 289-298 (with A. G. Cosby, J. W. Lemke and H. T. Azuma).
1974
"Residence and the Athletic Participation-Educational Aspiration Hypothesis,"
Social Science Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 3 (December): 768-776 (with E. W. Curry).
1976
"Significant-Other Influence and Aspirations," Sociology of Education Vol. 49, No.
1 (Winter): 12-22 (with T. M. Carter).
1976
"Race and Socialization for Vocational Education," Journal of Vocational
Education Research Vol. 1, No. 4 (Spring): 27-43 (with W. Byrd and A. G. Cosby).
1977
"Race and the Formation of Academic Self-Concept: A Causal Analysis," Southern
Journal of Educational Research Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring): 57-70 (with A. G.
Cosby, E. W. Curry and R. H. Wells).
1978
"Paradigms, Theories and Methods in Contemporary Rural Sociology," Rural
Sociology Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter): 559-583 (with R. H. Wells and K. Nyberg).
1978
"Reply to Bealer: The Skeptic as Ritualist," Rural Sociology Vol. 43, No. 4
(Winter): 595-609 (with R. H. Wells and K. Nyberg).
1978
"Race, Athletic Achievement and Educational Aspiration," Sociological Quarterly,
Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer): 429-438.
1979
"Success in Interscholastic Sports and the College Plans of Women Athletes,"
TAPHER Journal Vol. 67, No. 3 (Spring): 12-13 (with M. J. Hartzell).
1979
"Interscholastic Athletics and Delinquency: Applause or Appraisal?" Sociology of
Education Vol. 52, No. 4 (Winter): 238-243 (with C. Peek, E. W. Curry and J. P.
Alston).
1980
"Some Comments on the Growth of Knowledge in Sport Sociology," Journal of
Sport and Leisure Research. Vol. 4, No. 2 (Winter): 19.
1980
"Marijuana Use, Occupational Success Values and Materialistic Orientations of
University Students," Adolescence Vol. 25, No. 59 (Fall): 529-534 (with R. H.
Wells and A. Marianne).
1980
"Interscholastic Athletics and Socialization for Educational Achievement," Journal
of Sport Behavior Vol. 3, No. 3 (August): 119-128 (with R. H. Wells).
1981
"Social Structure, Crime and Imprisonment in the United States: A Causal
Analysis," Criminology Vol. 19, No. 3 (November): 344-359 (with P. Joubert and
W. A. McIntosh).
1982
"The Becoming Place: A Study of Educational Change in a Small College,"
Research in Higher Education Vol. 17, No. 1: 15-32 (with R. H. Wells).
1982
"The Structure of Significant-Other Influence on Status Aspirations: Black-White
Variations," Sociology of Education Vol. 55, No. 1: 22-30 (with S. A. Scritchfield).
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1982
"Educational Aspirations of "Academically Disadvantaged, Athletes," Journal of
Sport Behavior Vol. 5, No. 2 (June): 59-76 (with S. Hwang).
1982
"The Contributions of Vernon J. Parenton to Sociology," Sociological Spectrum
Vol. 2, No. 3-4: 203-207.
1985
"Manpower Training and the Political Economy of Agriculture," Social Science
Quarterly Vol. 66, No. 2: 238-345 (with W. A. McIntosh).
1985
"Do High School Athletics Pay? Some Further Evidence" Sport Sociology Journal
Vol. 2, No. 2: 238-241 (with V. McCarter and F. Howell).
1985
"The Relevance of Kuhn's Model of Scientific Development for Sociology"
Sociological Spectrum Vol. 5:1-16 (with J. A. Lemke).
1986
"The Pricking of a Sacred Cow: A Suggestion for Reform of the Manuscript Review
Process and the Gatekeepers Responses." Sociological Spectrum Vol. 6:381-395
(with C. Willis and R. Wells).
1986
"Propositions 48, 49-B and 56: Implications for Student-Athletes, Coaches and
Universities." Journal of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletes Vol. 1, No.
2, July: 135-147.
1986
"Drug Use Among Basketball Players: An Historical Analysis of Use Situations."
Journal of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Vol. 1, No. 3, October:
226-238 (with D. Gill).
1988
"Participation and Skill Development in Children's Sport: An Alternative Model for
Little League Baseball." Journal of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics
Vol. 3, No. 2, April: 120-127 (with G. Kreps and D. Gill).
1989
"Social Support, Stressful Events, Strain, Dietary Intake, and the Elderly." Medical
Care Vol. 27, No. 2, February: pp. 140-153 (with A. McIntosh and P. A. Schifflett).
1990
"Partial Paradigm Shifts in the Social Sciences: Twenty Years of Research in Rural
Sociology." Rural Sociology Vol. 55, No.1:101-111 (with E.W. Curry and R.H.
Wells).
1991
"The Social Psychological Impacts of a Technological Disaster: Collective Stress
and Perceived Health Risks." Journal of Hazardous Materials Vol. 27: 77-89
(with D. Gill).
1992
"Social Disruption and the Valdez Oil Spill: Alaskan Natives in a Natural
Resource Community." Sociological Spectrum Vol. 12, No.2: 105-126. (with
C. Dyer and D. Gill).
1992
"Stress and Disruption in an Alaskan Fishing Community: Initial and Continuing
Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Industrial Crisis Quarterly
Vol. 6, No. 3: 235-257 (with D. Gill, C. Dyer, and E. Curry).
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1993
"Technological Accident, Community Class-Action
Litigation and Scientific
Damage Assessment: A Case Study of Court-Ordered Research." Sociological
Spectrum Vol. 13: 117-138 (with D. Rosebrook).
1996
"Sociology and Compelled Disclosure: Protecting Respondent Confidentiality."
Sociological Spectrum Vol. 16, No.3: 207-238.
1996
"Compelled Disclosure of Scholarly Research: Some Comments on "High
Stakes Litigation." Law and Contemporary Problems Vol. 59, No.3: 149-157.
1998
"Theory and Methodology in Family Socialization Research." Marriage
and Family Review Vol. 27, No. 1,2:3-18 (with K. Thomas Dietrich).
1998
"Technological Disaster and Chronic Community Stress." Society and Natural
Resources 11(8):795-815 (with D. A. Gill).
2000
“Coping with Technological Disaster: An Application of the Conservation of
Resources Model to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Journal of Traumatic Stress
13(1):28-39 (with K. Arata, G. Johnson, and T. McNally).
2000
“The Talking Circle as Sociological Practice: Cultural Transformation of Chronic
Disaster Impacts.” Sociological Practice: A Journal of Clinical and Applied
Sociology 2(2):77-97.
2000
“Assigning Blame: The Interpretation of Social Narratives and Environmental
Disasters.” Southeastern Sociological Review 1:13-31. (with D. S. Miller, and D.A.
Gill).
2002
“Contemporary Concepts of Environmental Risk: Implications for Resource
Management and Policy.” Sociological Practice: A Journal of Clinical and
Applied Sociology 4(4): 293-313 (with B.K. Marshall).
2003
“Terrorism as Disaster: Selected Commonalities and Long-Term Recovery for 9/11
Survivors.” Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 11:73-96 (with B.K.
Marshall and D. A. Gill).
2004
“Disaster, Litigation and the Corrosive Community.” Social Forces 82(4)
(June):1493-1522 (with B.K. Marshall and D. A. Gill).
2004
“Technological Disasters, Litigation Stress and the Use of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Mechanisms.” Law and Policy 26(2) (July):289-307 (with Brent K.
Marshall and Jan R. Schlichtmann).
2005
“Ecological Disaster as Contextual Transformation: Environmental Values in a
Renewable Resource Community.” Environment and Behavior. (with B.K.
Marshall and C. Bevc), 37:706-728.
2007
“Environmental Justice and Toxic Exposure: Toward a Spatial Model of Physical
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Health and Psychological Well-Being.” Social Science Research. (with C. Bevc and
B.K. Marshall), Vol.36. No. 1 (March):48-67.
2007
“Environmental Risk Perceptions and the White Male Effect: Pollution Concerns
Among Deep-South Coastal Residents.” Journal of Applied Sociology/Sociological
Practice. Vol. 23(No.2):31-49, (with B.K. Marshall, C. Formichella and K.
Nicholls).
2008
“Post-Normal Science, The Precautionary Approach, and Worst Cases: The
Challenge of Twenty-First Century Disasters” Sociological Inquiry. Vol. 78 (No.2).
(May):230-247, (with B.K. Marshall).
2008
“In Search of a Public Environmental Sociology: Ecological Risks in the TwentyFirst Century. Contemporary Sociology 37(6): 520-523.
2008
“Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction.
Social Forces, 87(2): 983-991. (with David Brunsma).
2009
“Katrina as a Natech Disaster: Toxic Contamination and Long-Term Risks for
Residents of New Orleans.” Journal of Applied Social Science 4(3), 39-55.
2009
“Disaster Recovery as Translational Applied Sociology: Transforming Chronic
Community Distress.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 32(2), 123-157.
2009
“When the Solution is the Problem: The Impacts of Adversarial Litigation on
Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill”. The St. Thomas Law Journal. 7(1): 6888.
2010
“Hurricane Katrina and Mental Health: A Research Note on Mississippi Gulf Coast
Residents.” Sociological Inquiry. 80(3): 513-524. (with Kenneth Hudson).
2011
“The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun.” Contexts 10 (3): 30-35 (with Liesel
Ritchie and Duane A. Gill).
2011
“The Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills: A Comparison of Initial Social and
Psychological Impacts.” American Behavioral Scientist. DOI: 10.1177/002764
211408585, http://abs.sagepub.com (with Duane A. Gill and Liesel A. Ritchie).
2011
“The BP Catastrophe and Sociological Practice: Mitigating Community Impacts
through Peer-Listener Training.” Journal of Applied Social Science. 5 (2) Fall: 112.
2012
“Race, Social Capital and the Health Impacts of Katrina: Evidence from the
Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast.” Human Ecology Review. 19 (1): 10-24
(with Francis O. Adeola).
“The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Trust in Government.” Social Science
Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00932.x (with Keith Nicholls).
2012
BOOKS
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1975
Career Behavior of Special Groups: Theory Research and Practice. Columbus,
OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishers, pp. 1-448, (with R. E. Campbell).
1981
American Sociology: Theoretical and Methodological Structure. Washington,
D.C.: University Press of America, pp. 1-192 (with R. H. Wells).
1997
The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem.
Dubuque, IA: Kendall- Hunt Publishers (with D.A. Gill and M. J. Cohen).
2007
The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. First Edition.
Landam, MD: Rowman Littlefield (with D. Brunsma and D. Overfelt, co-editors).
2007
The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. New Delhi,
India: IA Press. (reprinted).
2008
Methylmercury Contamination and High-Risk Fish Consumption: A Study of
Marine Recreational Fish Consumers in Deep-South Coastal Counties of the
United States. Saarbruken, Germany: VDM Verlag, Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft
& Company KG. (with F. Woerner and K. Hudson).
2010
The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Second
Edition. Landam, MD: Rowman Littlefield (with D. Brunsma and D. Overfelt, coeditors).
MONOGRAPHS
1969
Rural Youth Plan Ahead, Baton Rouge: L.S.U. Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin, No. 640, August, 32 pp (with P. F. Hernandez).
1970
Louisiana's Youth: Their Aspirations, Plans and Views on Current Social
Issues. Report of the Louisiana White House Conference on Children and Youth,
176 pp.
1976
Significant-Other Influence, Career Choice and Achievement: Selective
Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches. Columbus, OH: Center for Vocational
Education 64 pp., (with E. W. Curry and H. L. Hotchkiss).
1976
Significant-Other Influence and Career Decisions: A Summary Report. Center
for Vocational Education, Columbus, OH, 1975, 28 pp.
1977
Significant-Other Influence and Career Decisions of Black and White Male
Urban Youth. Final Report, Project No. 7-0148 N.1.E. Columbus, OH, 428 pp.,
(with E. W. Curry, H. L. Hotchkiss, S. Schritchfield, and J. Stahura).
1979
Significant-Other Influence and Career Decisions of Female Black and White
Urban Youth. Final Report to National Institute of Education (with E. W. Curry, H.
L. Hotchkiss, S. Schritchfield, J. Stahura and J. Salomone).
Model CETA and Private Sector Linkage. College Station, Texas, Occupational
Research Division, Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University.
Final Report to Texas Department of Community Affairs, Austin, TX, November
1981
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(with K. Hogue, A. McIntosh and R. Rigsby).
1982
Vocational Education for Migrant Youth, R&D Series, National Center for
Vocational Education, O.S.U., Synthesis Paper.
1984
Ecological, Physical, Economic, Sociological and Psychological Assessment of
the Illinois Central Gulf Train Derailment. Vol. 5: Sociological Assessment.
Baton Rouge, LA: Gulf South Research Institute.
1990
Social Disruption and Psychological Stress in an Alaskan Fishing Community:
The Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Quick Response Research Report, No.
35. Boulder Colorado: Natural Hazards Resource and Information Center (with
D.Gill, C. Dyer, and E.W. Curry).
1992
Bayou La Batre, Alabama: Socioeconomic Profile and Social Impacts of TEDs
Regulations. Report to the Bayou La Batre Chamber of Commerce, January (with
C. Dyer, and M. Moberg).
1997
Mitigating the Chronic Community Impacts of Localized Environmental
Degradation: A Case Study of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Final Report to Prince
William Science Regional Citizens Advisory Council. Anchorage, Alaska (with G.D.
Johnson and D. Gill).
1997
Chronic Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Final Report to the
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, Anchorage, Alaska,
October (with K. Arata).
2003
African-American Subsistence Fishers and the Consumption of Contaminated
Harvests in Mobile County: A Pilot Study of Three-Mile Creek and Mobile Bay.
Final Report to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management,
Montgomery, Alabama, August. (with C. Formichella and W. Isphording).
2006
Assessing Public Awareness of the Benefits of Oyster Reef Restoration: Laying
the Groundwork for an Educational Outreach Program. Final report to the
Alabama Oyster Reef Restoration Program, Washington, DC. October. (with C. G.
Martin)
2006
Community Impacts of Hurricane Ivan: A Case-Study of Orange Beach,
Alabama Quick Response Research Report Number 190, Boulder, CO: University of
Colorado Natural Hazards Center, November .
2007
Long-Term Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Patterns of
Social Disruption and Psychological Stress Seventeen Years After the Disaster.
Final report to the National Science Foundation. Award No. OPR0002572,
Washington, DC, April. (with C. G. Martin).
2008
Environmental Perceptions, Socio-Economic Impacts and Resource-Use of
“Snowbirds” in the Alabama Coastal Zone. Final Report to the Alabama Center
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for Estuarine Study. Mobile, AL. June 15.
2009
Hurricane Katrina, Residential Damage, Evacuation Behavior and Patterns of
Recovery. Final Report submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation and Social
Science Research Council.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1972
"Characteristics of the Disadvantaged," Communication for Change with the
Rural Disadvantaged: A Workshop, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of
Sciences, (with J. McCormack).
1975
"The Black Respondent and Career Behavior Research," Pp. 404-423 in J. S. Picou
and R. E. Campbell (eds.), Career Behavior of Special Groups: Theory,
Research and Policy, Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishers.
1975
"Status Attainment Theory and Black Male Youth," Pp. 23-40 in J. S. Picou and R.
E. Campbell (eds.), Career Behavior of Special Groups: Theory, Research and
Policy, Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishers (with T. M. Carter).
1977
"Potential Protesters: An Example of Empirical Research," in H. P. Chalfant, E. W.
Curry and E. Palmer (eds.) Sociological Stuff, Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt
Publishers (with E.W. Curry).
1978
"Determinants of Career Orientations and Early Educational Achievements:
Evaluations of a Causal Model,"Pp. 139-186 in A. G. Cosby and L. Charner (eds.)
Education and Work in Rural America, Stafford-London, Houston (with W. G.
Howard).
1985
"The Foundations of Symbolic Interactionism Reconsidered." Pp. 54-70 in MicroSociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory, Volume Two. H. J.
Helle and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds.). London: Sage Publications (with G. David
Johnson).
1987
"Interscholastic Athletes and Socialization for Educational Achievement" and "Do
High School Sports Pay? Some Further Evidence" both appeared as reprints in E.
Yianakkis et al, Sport Sociology: Contemporary Themes, Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt Publishers (with R.H. Wells; F. Howell, V. McArthur) Reprinted
Articles.
1989
"Toxic Waste Disposal Sites as Technological Accidents." Pp. 81-98 in Dennis Peck
(ed.) Psychosocial Effects of Hazardous Toxic Waste Disposal on Communities.
Charles C. Thomas Publishers (with D. Gill).
1990
"Drug Use Among Basketball Players: A Historical Analysis of Use Situations." Pp.
67-79 in The Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual. Boston, MA:
American Press. (with D. Gill). Reprint.
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1990
"Race and the Educational Orientation of College Athletes: Implications for Career
Counseling." Pp. 27-40 in Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual.
Boston, MA: American Press (with A. Anderson, J. Warfield, and D. Gill).
1991
"The Foundations of Symbolic Interactionism Reconsidered." Reprinted in
Verstehen and Pragmatism, Horst J. Helle (ed.). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag
(with G. David Johnson).
1996
"Toxins in the Environment, Damage to the Community: Sociology and the Toxic
Tort." Pp. 210-223 in Pamela Jenkins and Steve Kroll-Smith (eds). Witnessing for
Sociology: Sociologists in Court. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
1996
"The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Chronic Psychological Stress." Pp. 879-893 in F.
Rice, R. Spies, D. Wolfe and B. Wright (eds). Proceedings of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill Symposium, Volume 18. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society (with
Duane A. Gill).
1997
"The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill as a Technological Disaster: Conceptualizing a Social
Problem." Pp. 3-21 in J.S. Picou, D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen (eds). The Exxon
Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt Publishers (with D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen).
1997
"The Day the Water Died: Cultural Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on
Alaska Natives." Pp. 167-191 in J.S. Picou, D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen (eds). The
Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. Dubuque,
IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers (with D.A. Gill).
1997
"Commercial Fishers and Stress: Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill." Pp. 211-235 in J.S. Picou, D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen (eds). The Exxon
Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt Publishers (with D.A. Gill). Reprinted from Rice, et.al, 1996.
1997
"Technological Disasters and Social Policy: Lessons from the Exxon Valdez."
Pp. 309-315 in J.S. Picou, D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen (eds). The Exxon Valdez
Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt
Publishers (with D.A. Gill and M.J. Cohen).
2000
"The Exxon Valdez Disaster As Localized Environmental Catastrophe:
(Dis)similarities to Risk Society Theory." Pp. 143-170 in M. J. Cohen (ed.) Risk in
the Modern Age. London: Macmillan Press (with D.A. Gill).
2001
“The Day the Water Died: The Exxon Valdez Disaster and Indigenous Culture.”
Pp. 277-301 in Steven Biel (ed.) Modern American Disasters. New York: New
York University Press (with D.A. Gill).
2007
“Katrina as Paradigm Shift: Reflections on Disaster Research in the Twenty-First
Century.” Pp. 1-20 in D. Brunsma, D. Overfelt and J.S. Picou (eds.) The Sociology
of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Landon, MD: Rowman
Littlefield. (with B.K. Marshall).
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2008
“The Day the Water Died: Cultural Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Pp.167192 in J.S. Picou, D. A. Gill & M. J. Cohen (Eds.), The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill:
Readings on a Modern Social Problem. New Delhi, India: IA Press. (with Duane
A.Gill).
2008
“The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill as a Social Problem”. Pp. 3-21 in J. S. Picou D.A. Gill,
& M. J. Cohen (Eds.), The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social
Problem. New Delhi, India: IA Press. (with Duane Gill and Maurie Cohen).
2008
“Commercial Fishers and Stress: Psychological Impacts of the Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill.” Pp. 211-236 in J. S. Picou, D. A. Gill and M. J. Cohen (Eds.), The
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. New Delhi,
India: IA Press. (with Duane A. Gill).
2008
“Technological Disasters and Social Policy: Lessons from The Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill”. Pp. 309-317 in J. S. Picou, D. A. Gill and M. J. Cohen (Eds.), The Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill: Readings on a Modern Social Problem. New Delhi, India: IA
Press. (with Duane A. Gill and Maurie J. Cohen).
2009
“Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Synthesis and
Elaboration of Social Science Research.” Pp. 279-310 in S. R. Braund and J. Kruse,
Eds.), Synthesis: Three Decades of Research on Socioeconomic Effects Related
to Offshore Petroleum Development in Coastal Alaska. Anchorage, AK: United
states Department of the Interia. (with Cecelia Formichella, Brent Marshall and
Catalina Arata.
2009
“When the Disaster is a Crime: Legal Issues and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill”. Pp. 6182 in D.W. Harper & K. Failing (Eds.), Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. (with Duane A. Gill and Liesel A. Ritchie).
2010
“Introduction: Katrina as Paradigm Shift: Reflection on Disaster Research in the
Twenty-First Century”. Pp. 1-21 in D.L. Brunsma, D. Overfelt & J. S. Picou (Eds.),
The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. (2nd ed) Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. (with D. L. Brunsma and D. Overfelt).
2010
“Community Recovery from Hurricane Katrina: Storm Experiences, Property
Damage and the Human Condition”. Pp. 135-156 in D.L. Brunsma, D. Overfelt & J.
S. Picou (Eds.), The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe.
(2nd ed) Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. (with Christine Bevc and
Keith Nicholls).
2010
“Preface to the Second Edition.” In D. L. Brunsma, D. Overfelt and J. S. Picou
(eds.), The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe (2nd
ed). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (with D. Brunsma).
2010
“Foreword.” In J. D. Rivera & D. S. Miller (Eds). How Ethnically Marginalized
Americans Cope with Catastropic Disasters (pp iii-vii). Lewistown, New York:
The Edwin Mellen Press.
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In Press
“Football, College”. In C.R. Wilson (Ed.).The New Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (with K.Fondren and
Duane Gill).
In Press
“Football, High School”. In C.R. Wilson (Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (with K. Fondren and
Duane Gill).
In Press
“Football, Professional”. In C.R. Wilson (Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (with K.
Fondren and Duane Gill).
In Press
“Football, Southern Traditions. In C.R. Wilson (Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (with K.
Fondren and Duane Gill).
In Press
“Afterword.” In D. S. Miller & J.D. Rivera (Eds.). Minority Resiliency and the
Legacy of Disaster. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
PROCEEDINGS ENTRIES
1992
Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Community Comparisons of
Valdez, Cordova, and Petersburg. Pp. 150 in M. Jeffries (ed.), American
Association for the Advancement of Science 43rd Arctic Science Conference:
Environmental Change: Natural and Man-Made. University of Alaska,
Fairbanks: Geophysical Institute (with D. A. Gill).
1993
Long-Term Social Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Pp.
223-226 in B. Spies, L.J. Evans, B. Wright, M. Leonard and C. Holba (eds.),
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium Abstract Book. Anchorage, AK (with
D. A. Gill).
1995
Social and Psychological Stress and the Unnatural Disaster. Pp. 234-248 in R.
Clementson (ed.), The 3rd International Conference: Emergency
Planning '95. Lancaster, United Kingdom (with D.A. Gill).
1998
Social Narratives of Corporate Blame: Citizen Construction of Environmental
Degradation. In Reflecting Social Life: Analysis and Interpretation in
Qualitative Research. University of Toronto: Toronto, Canada (with D. Miller and
D. Gill).
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS
1995
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Alaskan Natives in Cordova: A User's Guide
to 1989 and 1990 Survey Data. Social Science Research Center, Mississippi
State University (with D. Gill).
1995
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Alaskan Natives in Cordova: A User's Guide
to 1991 and 1992 Survey Data. Social Science Research Center, Mississippi
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State University (with D. Gill).
1995
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Social Impact Study: A User's Guide to 1989 and
1990 Survey Data. Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University
(with D. Gill).
1995
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Social Impact Study User's Guide to Community
Household Survey Data: 1991 - 1992. Social Science Research Center,
Mississippi State University (with D. Gill).
BOOK REVIEWS
1973
Richard M. Burkey, Racial Discrimination and Public Policy in the United States
(Heath Lexington Books, Lexington, MA, 144 pp.) Rural Sociology Vol. 38, No. 2
(Summer): pp. 245-246.
1976
John Hall Fish, “Black Power/White Control: The Struggle of the Woodlawn
Organization in Chicago” (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NY, 365 pp.)
Contemporary Sociology Vol. 5, No. 2 (March): 192.
1976
Richard J. Meister (ed.), “Race and Ethnicity in Modern America” (D. C. Heath and
Company, Lexington, Mass., pp. 198) Contemporary Sociology Vol. 5, No. 4
(July): 490.
1976
T. B. Bottomore, “Sociology as Social Criticism” (Pantheon Books, New York, 217
pp.) Rural Sociology Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer): pp. 276-277.
1979
Alan Peshkin, “Growing Up American” (University of Chicago Press, Chicago)
Rural Sociology. Vol. 44, No. 3: pp. 631-633.
1980
S. A. Lightfoot, “Worlds Apart” (Basic Books, New York) Contemporary
Sociology Vol. 9, No. 4 (July): 541.
1980
S. A. Heyneman and J. K. Currie, “Schooling, Academic Performance and
Occupational Attainment in a Non-Industrialized Society”. Social Forces Vol. 59,
No. 1 (September): 300-301.
1984
James F. Short, “The State of Sociology”. Social Forces Vol. 62, No. 4 (June): pp.
1101-1103.
1986
Richard E. Lapchick, “Fractured Focus: Sport as a Reflection of Society” (D.C.
Heath), Journal of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Vol. No. 3, pp.
252-253.
1987
Andrew Yiannakis, et al., “Sport Sociology: Contemporary Themes”
(Kendall-Hunt), Journal of Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics No. 2,
pp. 136-138.
Fischer, Henry W., III, “Response to Disaster: Fact versus Fiction and Its
Perpetuation: The Sociology of Disaster”. (University Press of America, Inc),
1995
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Journal of Applied Sociology Vol. 12, No.2: pp.85-93.
2009
Review Essay: The Shifting Sands of Post-Katrina Disaster Sociology. [Review of
the book, Hurricane Katrina and the redefinition of landscape]. Sociological
Spectrum, 29(3): 431-438.
2010
William R. Freudenburg, Bob Gramling, Shirley Laska and Kai Erikson,
“Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and Disasters of
Tomorrow.” (Island Press). Social Forces Vol 89(1): 353-354.
REQUESTED PUBLICATIONS
1971
"Status Orientations of Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Lower Class Black Males,"
LSU Journal of Sociology (with H. T. Azuma and A. G. Cosby) Vol. 1, No. 1
(October 2): 4-19.
1971
"Social Organization, War Opposition and Youth: Toward a Typology of Dissent,"
LSU Journal of Sociology (with E. W. Curry, J. W. Lemke and G. S. Tracy) Vol. 2,
No. 1 (October): 66-82.
1972
"Adolescents’ Education Projections: A Three Dimensional Conceptualization and
Empirical Evaluation," LSU Journal of Sociology. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring): 15-21.
1972
"Educational Policy and Rural Development: A Summary Report," Sociologia
Ruralis, Vol. 12: 13.
1987
"Rewrite the Book on College Sports." Houston Chronicle March 22 also reprinted
in NCAA News April 2 (with R.H. Wells).
1989
"Football in the South" in Charles V. Wilson (ed) Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. University of Mississippi: Center for Southern Culture: (with Duane Gill).
2008
“Brent K. Marshall: 1965-2008 Obituary”. Social Problems Forum: The SSSP
Newsletter, 39(2):8. (with Jay Corzine).
2010
“How the Oil Spill Damages People, too” Editorial Opinion, Press-Register, May
23, pp. 17A, 19A.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
1972-1975
"Interpersonal Determinants of the Career Decision-Making Process of Male
Inner-City Youth." Funded by the United States Office of Education and National
Institute of Education, The Ohio State University. $280,000. Principal
Investigator.
1977
"National Workshop on Status Attainment Processes of Rural Youth." Funded by
the Farm Foundation. $5,000. Workshop Director and Organizer.
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1980-1981
"Model CETA and Private Sector Linkage System" (K. Hogue). Funded by the
Texas Department of Community Affairs and the U.S. Department of Labor.
$144,491. Co-Principal Investigator.
1982-1984
"Livingston Train Derailment and Toxic Spill." Funded through 23rd District
Court, State of Louisiana in a court-ordered social impact assessment grant.
$178,650. Principal Investigator.
1984-1988
Contracts and grants for management design programs with public-sector agencies:
Community Council of Greater Dallas, Texas Department of Human Resources,
and Central Texas Health Systems Agency. $25,600. Principal Investigator.
1988-1989
"Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Funded by Natural Hazards
Resource and Information Center. Boulder, Colorado. $2,800. Principal
Investigator.
1989-1990
"The Mandate of Technological Change: Socioeconomic Effects of Turtle Excluder
Devices on Gulf Coast Fishing Communities" (C. Dyer, M. Moberg, and J. Thomas).
Funded by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. $9,800. Co-Principal
Investigator.
1990-1991
"Bayou La Batre Community Survey" (C. Dyer, and M. Moberg). Funded by the
Bayou La Batre Chamber of Commerce. $23,980. Principal Investigator.
1991-1993
"Long-Term Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill". Funded by the National
Science Foundation. $189,843. Principal Investigator.
1991-1992
"Community Impacts of the Valdez Oil Spill" (C. Dyer). Funded by the Center for
Field Studies, Earthwatch. $24,400. Co-Principal Investigator.
1995-1997
"Community Impacts of Oil Spills: Development and Evaluation of a Mental
Health Mitigation Program." Funded by the Regional Citizens' Advisory
Council, $175,506. Principal Investigator.
1995-1997
"Assessment, Coordination and Evaluation (ACE) Program" (R. Hanks and D.
McAdory). Funded by the Alabama Department of Education, $188,462. CoPrincipal Investigator.
1997-1998
"State of Alabama - Profiling User Groups in Mobile Bay" (J. Stephen Thomas and
G. David Johnson). Funded by Environmental Protection Agency, $32,000. CoPrincipal Investigator.
1998-1999
"Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge of Alabama Coastal Residents: A
Baseline for Developing Sustainable Coastal Management Strategies". (Cecelia
Formichella, G. David Johnson and Keith Nicholls). Funded by the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies, $87,844.
Principal Investigator.
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2000-2002
“Technological Disaster, Resource Loss and Long-Term Social Change in a Subarctic Community.” Funded by the National Science Foundation, $139,756.
Principal Investigator.
2000-2002
“African American Subsistence Fishers and Fish Consumption: A Pilot Study.”
(Wayne Isphording). Funded by the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, $20,000, Principal Investigator.
2001-2002
“Monitoring Environmental and Policy Orientations of Alabama Residents: A
Longitudinal Data Base for Alabama Coastal Zone Management.” Funded by
Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies, $55,383, Principal Investigator.
2004-2006
“Environmental Attitudes and Resource Use: Assessing the Impact of Snowbirds on
the Alabama Coastal Zone.” Funded by the Alabama Center for Estuarine
Studies, $78,592. Principal Investigator.
2004-2006
“Assessing Public Awareness of the Benefits of Oyster Reef Restoration: Laying the
Technological Groundwork for an Educational Outreach Program.” Funded by the
Oyster Reef Restoration Program, $63,900. Principal Investigator.
2004-2006
“Patterns of Seafood Consumption among Recreational Fishers of the Coastal
Regions of Alabama.” Funded by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Consortium. $63,841. Principal Investigator.
2006-2008
“Monitoring the Environmental Perceptions of Alabama Coastal Residents.” Funded
by Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies. $51,500. Principal Investigator.
2007-2008
“Community Recovery and Hurricane Katrina: Corrosive and Therapeutic Patterns
In Mississippi and Louisiana.” Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. $125,750.
Principal Investigator.
2008-2013
“Hurricane Katrina: Long-Term Patterns of Community Recovery.” Funded by Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, $300,000.
2009-2012
“The Resolution of High Stakes Litigation in a Renewable Resource Community.”
Funded by National Science Foundation, $147,694.
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2012-2017
“Community Health Workers Training Grant.” Funded by the Federal Court through
the BP Medical Claims Settlement, $4,000,000.
SUMMARY OF EXTRAMURAL GRANT ACTIVITY
Total Extramural Funding (1971-2012)
$6,414,792
Extramural Funding at University of South Alabama (1988-2012) $5,781,051
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
From 1970 to 1984 I authored or co-authored fifty-eight (58) presentations at the meetings of the
following professional organizations: American Sociological Association; Southern Sociological
Society; Rural Sociological Society; Southwestern Sociological Association; North American
Society for Sport Sociology; Louisiana Academy of Sciences; Southern Association of
Agricultural Scientists; American Educational Research Association; Texas Academy of
Science; Texas Association for Health and Physical Education; Mid-South Sociological
Association; Society for Applied Sociology, Society for Study of Social Problems, Association
for Applied and Clinical Sociology.
1985
"Research Trends in Technological Accidents." Presentation at the annual meetings
of the North-Central Sociological Society, April, Louisville, KY (with D. Gill).
1985
"Organizational Effectiveness: The Case of CETA". Presentation at the annual
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association. March, Dallas, TX (with I.
Naphtali and A. McIntosh).
1985
"Evaluative Research: Innovations from Organizational Theory." Presentation at the
National Council Executives Group Conference, Dallas, TX.
1985
"Social Impact Assessment: Methodology and Applications to Judicial and
Administrative Science". Keynote address given to the National Council
Executives Group Conference, Dallas, TX. (Invited).
1985
"Toward a Human Ecology of Technological Disasters." Presentation at the annual
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, March, Dallas,
TX (with D. Gill).
1985
"Career Counseling for the Scholarship Athlete." Presentation at the annual
meetings of the Texas Association for Counseling and Development, San Antonio,
TX.
1985
"A Conceptualization of Technological Disasters." Presentation at the annual
meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Society, Little Rock, AR.
1986
"How to Respond to Counseling Problems of Academically-Disadvantaged
Black-Athletes." Presentation at the annual meeting of the Southwestern
Psychological Association, Fort Worth, TX, April.
1986
"A Model for Assessing the Social Impacts of Technological Disasters."
Presentation at the annual meetings of the World Congress of Sociology, New
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1986
1989
1989
Delhi, India, August (with D. Gill).
"A Program for Reducing Drug Use and Abuse in College Athletics." Presentation
at the annual meetings of the North American Society for Sport Sociology, Las
Vegas, NV, October (with J. Warfield).
"Evaluating the Impact of Disasters: An Applied Research Design." Read at the
annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Norfolk, VA, April (with D.
Gill).
"The Social Psychological Consequences of a Technological Accident: Disaster
Structure, Collective Stress, and Perceived Health Risks." Presentation at the
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
(with D. Gill).
1989
"The Environmental Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Preliminary Report of
Perceptions in an Alaskan Community." Presentation at the annual meeting of the
Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge, LA, October.
1990
"Social Disruption and Psychological Stress in an Alaskan Fishing Community: The
Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at the annual meeting of the
Southern Sociological Society, Louisville, KY, March. (with D. A. Gill, C. L. Dyer
and E. W. Curry).
1990
"Social Relations and Subsistence Tradition Disruption among Alaskan Natives in
Cordova, Alaska: An Assessment of the Social Consequences of the Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill." Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied
Anthropology, York, England, March. (with C. L. Dyer, D. A. Gill, and E. W.
Curry).
1990
"The Social Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Patterns of Social Disruption and
Post-Traumatic Stress." Presentation at the Conference on Research in the 1990s
for Prince William Sound and the Copper River Delta. Cordova, AK, March
(with D. A. Gill, C. L. Dyer, and E. W. Curry).
1990
"The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A
Research Summary and Bibliography." Presentation at the Natural Hazards
Workshop, Boulder, CO, July.
1990
"The Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Short-Term and Long-Term
Consequences." Presentation at the Louisiana Governor's Oil Spill Conference,
Lafayette, LA, October. (Invited).
1990
"Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: An Assessment of an Alaskan
Fishing Community." Presentation at the annual meeting of the AlabamaMississippi Sociological Association, Starkville, MS (with D.A. Gill and
Dyer).
C.L.
1990
"The Culture of Safety and Risk Perception: Some Comments on the Social Basis of
Disaster Prevention." Presentation at the annual meeting of Society for Risk
Analysis, New Orleans, LA, October (with D. Gill).
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1990
"The Social Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Nineteen Months of Social
Disruption in a Natural Resource Community." Presentation at the annual meeting
of Society for Applied Sociology, Cincinnati, OH, October (with D. Gill and C.
Dyer).
1990
"Environmental Disasters and Subsistence Cultures: Long-Term Consequences of
the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at the annual meeting of Mid-South
Sociological Society, Hot Springs, AR, October (with C. Dyer and D. Gill).
“Social Disruption and the Valdez Oil Spill: Alaskan Natives in a Natural
Resource Community.” Presentation at the annual meeting of Mid-South
Sociological Society, Hot Springs, AR (with C. Dyer and D. Gill).
1990
1991
“Oil, Technological Disasters and the Environmental Movement.” Presentation at the
Southeastern Louisiana University Visiting Scholar Public Lecture Series,
Hammond, Louisiana, February. (Invited).
1991
"Technological Disasters, Community Class-Action Litigation and Scientific
Damage Assessment: The Livingston, Louisiana Train Derailment and Toxic Spill."
Presentation at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta,
GA, April (with D. Rosebrook).
1991
"The Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery and TEDS: Social Impacts of Mandated
Federal Regulations in Bayou La Batre, Alabama." Presentation at the annual
meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, April (with C. Dyer,
M. Moberg, and S. Thomas).
1991
"Overpopulation as Related to Pollution." Presentation to the National Science
Foundation Global Environmental Education Workshop, Ocean Springs, MS,
October. (Invited).
1991
"Identification of Performance Improvement Areas and Program Development for
Positive Impacts." Presentation at Environ Expo, Lake Charles, LA, October.
(Invited).
1991
"Technological Disaster and Community Change: The Natural Resource
Community as a Recovery and Restoration Model." Presentation at the annual
meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology, Charleston, SC (with C. Dyer and
D. Gill).
1991
"Community Recovery from Environmental Disaster: A Longitudinal Study of
the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at the annual meeting of the Mid-South
Sociological Association, Jackson, MS (with D. Gill and C. Dyer).
1992
"Technological Disasters and Out-Migration Desires: A Research Note on Rural
Community." Presentation at Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, MO,
April. (with Duane Gill and Christopher L. Dyer).
1992
"Disruption and Stress in Prince William Sound: Initial and Continuing Impacts of
the Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans,
LA, April (with Duane Gill, Christopher L. Dyer and Evans W. Curry).
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1992
"Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Community Comparisons of Valdez,
Cordova, and Petersburg." Presentation at the annual meeting of Arctic Science
Conference, Valdez, AK (with D. Gill).
1992
"Technological Disasters and Long-Term Social Stress: The Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill Revisited." Presentation at Mid-South Sociological Association,
Chattanooga, TN, October (with Duane Gill and Christopher Dyer).
1993
"Long-Term Social Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill."
Presentation at the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium, Anchorage, AK,
February (with Duane Gill).
1993
"Stress at Sea: Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on
Commercial Fisherman." Presentation at the Juneau Center, School of Fisheries
and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, February. (Invited).
1993
"Disaster and Long-Term Stress: Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on
Commercial Fishermen." Presentation at the 1993 Southwestern Sociological
Association, New Orleans, LA, March (with Duane Gill).
1993
"The Sociotoxic Syndrome at an Urban SuperFund Site: A Case Study."
Presentation at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association
Montgomery, AL, October (with Duane A. Gill).
1994
"Five Years Later: Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Environmental Disaster."
Keynote Address and Presentation at the Environmental Education Association
of Alabama, Dothan, AL, April. (Invited).
1994
Human Consequences of Environmental Degradation: An Overview of the Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at the NSF Global Environmental Workshop, W.F.
Scott Marine Center, Ocean Springs, MS, April. (Invited).
1994
"Keeping Faith with Respondents: What Can We Promise and How Can We
Deliver." Presentation at the Council for Marketing and Opinion Research,
New York, NY, June. (Invited).
1994
“Technological Disaster in a Renewable Resource Community: Social Coping,
Chronic Stress and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at the Arctic Science
Conference, Anchorage, AK (with R. Gala, D. Gill, and M. Cohen).
1995
"The Sociotoxic Syndrome: Reflections on the Study of Human Responses to
Toxic Contamination." Presentation at the Technological Hazards Workshop,
New Orleans, LA, January. (Invited).
1995
"Technological Disasters and Community Mental Health Needs in Alaska:
Responding to Chronic Psychosocial Impacts." Presentation at the Alaska Health
Summit 1995, Anchorage, AK (with D. Gill).
1995
"Social and Psychological Stress and the Unnatural Disaster." Presentation at the
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International Emergency Response Meetings, Lancaster, England, July (with D.
Gill).
1995
"Community Recovery or Community Transformation? Some Comments on the
Permanent Nature of Technological Disaster Impacts." Presentation at the
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Washington, DC,
August.
1995
"Sociology and Compelled Disclosure: Protecting Respondent Confidentiality."
Presidential Address at the annual meeting of Mid-South Sociological
Association, Mobile, AL, October.
1995
“Restoration and the Renewable Resources Community: Implications of the COR
Stress Model for Mental Health Service Delivery.” Presentation at the annual
meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile, AL (with T.S.
McNally, F.H. Dennard and D. A. Gill).
1996
“Environmental Loss and Psychological Stress in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill.” Presentation at the annul meeting of the Society for Applied Sociology,
Atlanta, GA (with D. Miller and D. Gill).
1996
"Chronic Social Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Community
Education as Mitigation." Presentation at the Society for the Study of Social
Problems Annual Meeting, New York City, NY. August.
1996
"Technological Disasters and Polar Communities: Perspectives on Emerging
Social Problems." Panel discussion at the AAAS Arctic Division Science
Conference, Girdwood, AK, September.
1996
"Depression and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: The Effects of Extreme
Stress and the Environment.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the
Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock, AR (with D. Gill and D.
Miller).
1996
"Oil Spill Risk Perception in the Aftermath of the Exxon Valdez Disaster."
Presentation at the meeting of Society for Risk Analysis, New Orleans, LA,
December (with D. Gill).
1997
"Compelled Disclosure and Respondent Suicide: Some Ethical Considerations."
Presentation at the annual meeting of Southern Sociological Society, New
Orleans, LA, April.
1997
"Localized Environmental Catastrophe and the Anxiety Community: Empirical
Parallels Between Risk Society Theory and the Exxon Valdez Disaster."
Presentation at the International Risk and Society Workshop, Oxford, England,
July. (Invited).
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1997
"From Environmental Sociologist, to Legal Advocate, to Impact Mitigator: Eight
Years of Field Research on Victims of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at
the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, August.
1997
"Mitigating the Chronic Community Impacts of Localized Environmental
Degradation: A Case Study of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Presentation at
the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Sociology, Chicago, IL, October.
1997
"The 'Talking Circle' As Applied Sociology: Cultural Mitigation of Chronic
Disaster Impacts." Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for
Applied Sociology, Chicago, IL, October.
1998
"Social Narratives of Corporate Blame, Citizen Construction of Environmental
Degradation." Presentation at the annual meeting of the 15th Annual Qualitative
Analysis Conference, Toronto, Canada, May (with D. S. Miller and D. A. Gill).
1998
"Reflecting Social Life: Analysis and Interpretation in Qualitative Research."
Presentation at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of
Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May (with D. S. Miller and D. A. Gill).
1998
"Technology, Disaster and Litigation: Evaluating a Model of Chronic Community
Impacts." Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, San Francisco, California, August (with D. Gill).
1998
"The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Localized Environmental Catastrophe: Dissimilarities
to Risk Society Theory." Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for
Applied Sociology, Denver, CO, October (with D. Gill).
1999
“Selected Theoretical Themes in Environmental Sociology: Implications for
Resource Management in the Modern World.” Presentation at the Minerals
Management Service Social and Economic Planning Workshop, Park City, Utah,
August. (Invited).
1999
“New Theoretical Paradigms in Sociology: Models for the Next Millennium.”
Presentation at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association,
Jackson, MS, November.
1999
“Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge among Alabama Coastal Residents: A
Baseline for Developing Sustainable Coastal Management Strategies.” Presentation
at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson, MS,
November.
2000
“Sociology and Respondent Confidentiality: Legal Challenges to Science and
Ethics.” Presentation made at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied
Sociology, Washington, DC, August.
2001
Panelist on “Issues in Contemporary Sport Sociology,” Mississippi-Alabama
Sociological Association, Mobile, AL, February.
“The Reconfiguration of the Corrosive Community.” Presentation made at the
2001
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International Risk Conference Workshop, New Orleans, LA, March.
2001
“Paradigm Shifts in Higher Education: Defining the Comprehensive Public
University,” Alpha Kappa Delta Lecture, University of South Alabama, April.
2001
“Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 1989-2000". Keynote address
given to the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, Anchorage, AK, May.
2001
“Transforming the Corrosive Community: Solution-Centered Sociology for Chronic
Disaster Impacts.” Presentation made at the 2001 American Sociological
Association, Anaheim, CA, August.(with G.D. Johnson and D.A. Gill).
2001
“September 11, 2001: Collective Trauma, the Corrosive Community, and Contested
Disaster.” Presentation made at the 2001 Mid-South Sociological Association,
Mobile, AL, October.
2001
“Technological Disasters, Resource Loss, and Long-Term Social Change in
Subarctic Community.” Presentation made at the 2001 Mid-South Sociological
Association, Mobile, AL, October. (with Duane Gill, Cecelia Formichella and Liesel
Ritchie)
2002
“The Earth Charter and Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Corporate Response to
Eco-Social Degradation.” Keynote address given at the Earth Charter Summit,
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, September.
2002
“9-11 as a Technological Disaster: Some Observations.” Presentation made at the
annual meeting of the Society for Applied Sociology, Sacramento, CA, October.
2002
“Perceptions of Seafood Risk Among Residents along the Alabama Gulf Coast.”
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology,
Sacramento, CA, October. (with C. Formichella and K. Nicholls).
2003
"Sociology of Disaster Recovery: Natural, Technological and Terrorist Events.”
Keynote Address for the Alaska Peoples Forum, Anchorage, AK, March.
2003
“Interviewer Falsification: Its Causes, Scope and Impact.” Session organized for the
annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology, Metairie, LA, October.
2003
“Applied Sociology: Getting from Here to There: Educating the Applied Sociologist
from Associate to Doctorate.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society
for Applied Sociology, Metairie, LA, October.
2003
“Adversarial Legalism and Toxic Tort Litigation: Alternative Models for Victims
of Technological Disasters.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the MidSouth Sociological Association, New Orleans, LA, November. (with B. Marshall)
2003
“Integrating Environmental and Social Data Using GIS: Addressing the Social
Impact of Environmental Injustice.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
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Mid-South Sociological Association, New Orleans, LA, November (with C. Bevc
and B. Marshall)
2003
“Disasters in the Modern World: Natural, Technological and Terrorist Events”.
Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium, University of South Alabama,
Mobile, AL, November.
2004
“The Never-Ending Disaster: Chronic Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill.” Presentation given at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, March.
2006
“Fish Consumption and Exposure to Methylmercury: Deep South Recreational
Fishers in the United States.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Canada, August (with B.K. Marshall).
2006
“Recovery Denied: Corrosive Patterns in the Aftermath of Katrina”. Paper
presentation at the meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal,
Canada. August. (with B.K. Marshall).
2006
“Fish Consumption among Coastal Recreational Anglers: Is Methylmercury
Poisoning a Significant Risk?” Power point presented at the Alabama-Mississippi
Bay’s and Bayou’s Symposium. Mobile, AL November. (with L. Swann, C.
Formichella and F. Nystrom).
2008
“Preparing for Chronic Mental Health Impacts: the Peer Listener Program.”
Workshop given at the Gulf Coast Mental Health Summit, CEU Credits (3) given
to attendees, Biloxi, MS. July.
2008
“Helping Others: An Update for Peer-Listeners. Workshop given to Peer-Listener
Volunteers in Cordova, AK. October.
2008
“Long-Term Psycho-Social Impacts of Hurricane Katrina,” Paper presented at the
meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, MA. August
(with Kenneth Hudson).
2008
“Understanding the Impact of Katrina on Vulnerable Populations,” Paper presented
at the National Symposium on Race, Place and the Environment after Katrina,
New Orleans.
2008
“Connecting Conversations: Mitigating Chronic Disaster Impacts Through PeerListener Training,” Paper presented at the Association of Applied and Clinical
Sociology Meetings, Jacksonville, FL. October.
2008
“Report to the Community: Impacts of the EVOS.” Presentation given to residents of the
community of Cordova, AK. Cordova, AK. October.
2009
“When Catastrophe Strikes: Social Consequences for the Human Community.” Keynote
Address Given at the Alaska Forum on the Environment. Anchorage, AK. February.
2009
“Hurricane Katrina: Understanding the Economic and Anthropogenic Contexts for
Chronic Mental Health Impacts.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Southern
Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA. April.
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2009
“Transforming the Human Community: Connecting Conversations as Peer-Listener
training workshop given at Alaska Forum on the Environment, Anchorage, AK.
February.
2009
“Displaced by Disaster: A Spatial Analysis of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees.” Paper
presented at the meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA. April
(with Christine Bevc).
2009
“Studying Animal-Human Relationships: Pushing the Sociological Envelope.” Panel
presentation, In Honor of Roll of Honor Inductee Clifton D. Bryant at the meeting of
the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA. April.
2009
“Responding to Chronic Mental Health Impacts of Katrina”. Workshop at Gulf
Coast Mental Health Collaborative Conference, Biloxi, MS.
2009
“Black Tide.” Presentation at the Natural Hazards Workshop, July, Boulder, CO.
2009
“Hurricane Katrina as an Oil Spill: Contrasts to the Exxon Valdez.” Paper presented
at the meeting of the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology, San Antonio,
TX. October.
2009
“Toil and Trouble: Katrina’s Toxic Soup and Lingering Contamination in New
Orleans.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Applied and
Clinical Sociology, San Antonio, TX. October. (with Christine Bevc).
2009
“Hurricane Katrina: Physical and Mental Health Impacts Three Years After the
Storm.” Paper presented at the meeting of the International Social Science
Research Association, Nashville, TN. December.
2010
“Responding to Chronic Mental Health Impacts from Katrina.” Presentation at the
Community Wellness Conference: Mind-Body-Spirit, May 26-27. Biloxi, MS.
2010
“The Exxon Valdez Spill and the BP Catastrophe: Projecting Mental Health
Impacts.” Presentation at the Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergencies
Annual Meeting. June 29, Pensacola, FL.
2010
“Impacts on an Alaskan Community: Post Exxon Valdez Spill.” Keynote Address for
the MS Gulf Coast Oil Spill Disaster Recovery Summit. June 30. Long Beach,
MS.
2010
“Lessons from the Exxon Valdez”. Presentation at the USA Brookley Oil Spill
Lecture Series. August 6, Fairhope, AL.
2010
“The BP Catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico: Present and Future Sociological
Impacts.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting,
August 10-13,Atlanta, GA.
2010
“The BP Catastrophe and Community Impacts: Helping Gulf Coast Residents.”
Keynote Address for Project Connect Consortium, August 24, Mobile, AL.
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2010
“Learning from Alaska: Strategies for Mitigating Community Impacts of the BP
Catastrophe”, University of West Florida Distinguished Lecture Series, October
1, Pensacola, FL.
2010
“Human Health Issues and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Presentation at the
Alabama Road to Restoration Conference. October 5-6, Orange Beach, AL.
2010
“The BP Catastrophe and Sociological Practice: Reaching Out to Gulf Coast
Survivors.” Presidential Address at the Association for Applied and Clinical
Sociology, October 14-17, St. Louis, MO.
2010
“Using Translational Tools to Address the BP Disaster.” Paper presented at the
Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology. October 14-17, St. Louis, MO.
2010
“Geography and Social Psychological Health of Gulf Cast Communities.” Paper
presented at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology. October 14-17,
St. Louis, MO (with C. Bevc and J. Will).
2010
“Peer-Listener Training Workshop.” Workshops given in the following
communities: Bayou La Batre, AL (July 14), Ocean Springs, MS (July 15), Gulf
Shores, AL (July 23), Orange Beach, AL (September 13, 17, November 5), Baton
Rouge, LA (July 28, 29, 30), Defuniak Springs, FL (August 12) and Starkville, MS
(November 1). These five hour workshops focused on organizing and training peerlisteners for mitigation of BP oil spill impacts. Over 400 peer listeners were trained.
MEDIA ACTIVITIES (Go to www.stevenpicou.com and access “In the News” link.)
Connecting conversations: Building community resiliency grant. [DVD]. Mobile, AL: Via
Solutions and Mobile United Way. July 2007.
Peer listener training program [DVD]. Anchorage, Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’
Advisory Council, AK.
Three hours and forty minutes. (2009)
Interviewed numerous times by radio, television and newspaper journalists. Topics have included:
(1) "High School Sports Programs"
(2) "Problems in Major-College Sports"
(3) "Technological Disasters"
(4) "Minority Aspirations in a Declining Economy"
(5) "Thomas Kuhn's Model of Scientific Development"
(6) "Improving Corporate Profits"
(7) "Theory, Science and Moral Decisions"
(8) "Exxon Valdez Oil Spill"
(9) "The Social Consequences of Toxic Contamination"
(10) “The Deepwater Horizon Disaster”
(11) “Mitigating the Impacts of Oil Spills”
Articles in which I have been quoted have appeared in Business Week, Science, The Nation,
London Independent, Earthwatch Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Observer, Men’s World,
NCAA News, Parade, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, The
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Philadelphia Inquirer, Mobile Press Register, Times-Picayune, Cordova Times, Time
Magazine. Pm Earth Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Mobile Press Register,
CNN, Los Angeles Times, ONEarth Magazine, PBS. I was named CNN’s Unique Person for
the Day, June 22, 2010.
EXPERT WITNESS ACTIVITIES
(1)
Served as court-appointed expert witness for the 23rd District Court, State of
Louisiana. Activities included research design, data-collection and data analysis for
evaluating the social impacts of a train derailment and toxic spill which occurred in
Livingston, LA, 1982. Report entered as court evidence.
(2))
Served as a consultant for plaintiffs involved in class-action litigation on the
Pigeon River, Hoforth, TN. 1988-1991.
(3)
Served as expert witness for class-action litigation involving residents of the
Southbend subdivision and the Brio super fund site, Houston, Texas. Activities
included research design, project administration, data-collection and completion of
preliminary report. Report submitted to court. 1991-1993.
(4)
Served as an expert witness for plaintiff commercial fishers involved in class-action
litigation as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, AK.
Activities included research design, data-collection, report writing and depositions.
1992-1995.
(5)
Served as an expert witness for plaintiffs involved in the Kentec-Dupont litigation,
Greenville, NC. Activities include research design, data-collection and report
writing. 1992-1996. Testified in State Court, April, 1998.
(6)
Served as expert witness for plaintiffs involved in class-action lawsuit resulting from
the Eunice Train derailment and toxic spill. Research design, data collection and
report preparation. June 2000-2003.
(7)
Serving as an expert for data collection, analysis and report preparation documenting
the physical and mental health impacts of toxic exposure at the Wingate Incinerator
and Superfund Site. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
(8)
Brief Amici Curiae of Sociologists, Psychologists and Law and Economic Scholars
in Support of Respondents. In the Supreme Court of the United States. Exxon
Shipping Co., et al. v Grant Baker et al. On writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 38 pages. Lead author of Brief.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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