Providence, RI 02912
Tollefson, J., Frickel, S, and Restrepo, M. Feature extraction and machine learning techniques for identifying historic urban environmental hazards: New methods to locate lost fossil fuel infrastructure in US cities. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0255507.
Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B. Contested extractivism: impact assessment, public engagement, and environmental knowledge production in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 1166-1188.
John Odland Award (finalist)
Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group, American Association of Geographers.
Dellinger Symposium Poster Award
First-place poster award for graduate research (tie). Presented at the Dellinger Symposium of the Superfund Research Program (Louisiana State University).
Graduate Student Paper Award
Natural Resources Research Interest Group, Rural Sociological Society.
National Institute for Environmental Health Science Superfund Research Program
Graduate student trainee, full academic funding. Supported by the Superfund Research Program of the NIEHS, grant P42ES013660.
Governance of Large Mine Permitting
Graduate student research position, full academic funding for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years. Supported by National Science Foundation award #1642226.
Environmental Sociology Workshop
Brown University’s Environmental Sociology Workshop brings together graduate students and faculty to discuss ongoing sociological research on environmental topics.
American Sociological Association
“Brownfields and green spaces: Neighborhood change and urban park access in a post-industrial city.” Los Angeles, CA. Aug. 6.
American Sociological Association
Frickel, S., and Tollefson, J. “When environmental inequality racialized: Evidence from a historical case study.” Los Angeles, CA. Aug. 6.
Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting
“Agricultural land conversion and new geographies of suburban environmental risk.” Sacramento, CA. Apr. 9.
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting
“Gastown: Fossil fuels and the changing nature of urban environmental inequality at the turn of the 20th century.” Boston, MA. Mar. 13.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
“New methods to locate historic fossil fuel infrastructures: How computational techniques can illuminate 19th century urban environmental hazards.” New York, NY and online. Feb. 25.
Dellinger Symposium of the Superfund Research Program, Louisiana State University
“Urban environmental inequality in the 19th century and the toxic legacy of the manufactured gas industry: Unearthing early fossil fuel infrastructure in American cities.” Baton Rouge, LA. Apr. 28.
Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting
“Urban environmental inequality and the toxic legacy of the manufactured gas industry: Unearthing 19th century fossil fuel infrastructure in American cities.” Online. Mar. 17.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
“Resource materiality and mining in Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.” New Orleans, LA. Apr. 10-14.
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting
“Knowledge, sovereignty, and resource extraction in rural Alaska: A case study of the Donlin Gold public comment process.” Quebec City, QC. Dec. 11-15.
Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting
“Land as material, habitat and survival: Resource materiality and mining in Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.” Boston, MA. Aug. 30 - Sept. 2.
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting
“Resource materiality and resistance to mineral development in Bristol Bay, Alaska.” Winnipeg, MB. Dec. 5-9.
Computational Environmental STS Working Group (Laboratoire Iterdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés)
“Energy geography and urban inequality: Computational techniques for historical research.” Paris, France. July 10-13.
Invited lecture, ENVS 1247 (Brown University)
“New methods to identify historic urban hazards.” Providence, RI. Feb. 18.
Urban Theory and Data Lab (Harvard University)
“Manufactured gas and historic environmental inequality.” Cambridge, MA. Oct. 29.
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Graduate Symposium
“Land use, power, and knowledge in the Northern resource frontier.” Burlington, VT. Oct. 13.
Brown University
Teaching Assistant: Organizations and Society
Teaching Assistant: Methods for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research
Teaching Assistant: Society and Culture in the Age of Globalization
University of Vermont
Co-taught with Dr. Bindu Panikkar: Human Ecology, Health, and Sustainability in the Circumpolar Arctic
Teaching Assistant: Social Processes and the Environment
Teaching Assistant: Environmental Policy and Activism
Teaching Assistant: Race, Culture, and Natural Resources
Extraordinary Youth Ensemble (Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts, Providence, RI)
Administrator and teacher.
Successfully obtained biannual grants from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts to provide weekly instrument and music history instruction to Providence area high school students. Developed curriculum and managed grant applications.
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts (Providence, RI)
Visiting artist: Music instruction.
Breakthrough Providence (Providence, RI)
Lead teacher, “Demonstration and Organization” session, original syllabus. Weekly after-school seminar with 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students.
Science and Technology in Large Mine Permitting
Research assistant (20hr/wk). PI: Dr. Bindu Panikkar (University of Vermont). Transcribed and coded interviews. Drafted and prepared work for publication.
Also a member of the American Sociological Society; Rural Sociological Society; Society for the Social Studies of Science; American Association of Geographers; Pacific Sociological Association; and Eastern Sociological Society.
I use a wide array of computational tools in my research and teaching, including statistical analysis in R, Stata, and SPSS; spatial analysis in R, ArcGIS, and QGIS; automation, web scraping, text analysis, and machine learning applications in Python and R; and qualitative analysis in NVivo and HyperResearch.
CV dated June 2022
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