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Jennifer E. Givens
Assistant Professor in 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
Email: [email protected]
Webpage: https://sociology.usu.edu/people/directory/jennifer-givens
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”
Qualifying Exam 2012: The Political Economy of Environmental Sociology (passed with distinction)
Qualifying Exam 2011: Comparative International Sociology (passed with distinction)
2013
Graduate Certificate in Demography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2010
M.S. Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Thesis: “National Affluence, Economic Growth, and Environmental Degradation: A Multilevel Analysis of
Environmental Concern”
2003
M.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-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University,
Logan, UT
2015-2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Research Interests
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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 Review 22(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. (2015
impact factor: 3.057)
Givens, Jennifer E. 2014 (invited). “Sociology: Drivers of Climate Change Beliefs.” Nature Climate Change 4(12):10511052. (2015 impact factor: 17.184)
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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 Behavior 46(7):848-871. (2015 impact
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. (2015 impact 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. (2015 impact
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. (2017 impact 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, Hofung 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.
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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 Conference in 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.
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Jennifer Givens. The Slow Food Movement: Globalization from Below Western Social Science Association (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
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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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