
Jonathan Tollefson
University of Chicago
Dept. of Sociology and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Tollefson’s research investigates how society-environment relations shape inequality, focusing on the structural roots of environmental injustice and the interface between science and policy. Their research draws on computational, spatial, and mixed methods, while also taking computational methods and large-scale data as objects of substantive and theoretical investigation.
Tollefson’s work has appeared in Social Forces, City & Community, and Social Studies of Science, among others. Their research is widely awarded and has been supported by the National Insitute of Standards and Technology, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program, CROCUS (US DOE - Argonne National Laboratory), and the SEEKCommons Project (NSF award #2226425), among others. Explore their recent and ongoing work using the tiles below.
+ e-mail: tollefson@uchicago.edu
+ ORCiD: 0000-0002-1392-5841




