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Box 1916, Brown University, Providence, RI
website: www.jonathantollefson.com
GitHub: www.github.com/TollefsonJ
email: jonathan_tollefson@brown.edu
mobile phone: (401)-286-6110
Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B.
From Juneau to Bristol Bay: Changing ideations of wealth, region-building, and knowledge in contemporary Alaska. Expected 2021.
Frickel, S and Tollefson, J.
A Nineteenth Century Environmental Inequality Formation. Expected 2021.
Tollefson, J.
Suburban development and agricultural land conversion: New architectures of environmental health inequality. Expected 2021.
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. R+R at PLOS One, expected 2021.
Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B.
Impact assessment, public engagement, and environmental knowledge production: Large mine permitting in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 1166-1188.
Tollefson, J.
Post-Fukushima discourse in the US press: Quantified knowledge, the technical object, and a panicked public. Public Understanding of Science 29(7): 670-687.
Panikkar, B and Tollefson, J.
Land as material, knowledge, and relationships: Resource extraction and subsistence imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Social Studies of Science 48(5): 715-739.
Tollefson, J. and Frickel, S.
Gasworks, Lost and Found. Urban Omnibus. July 1.
Tollefson, J. and Urso, M.
Black Lives Matter at St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Op-ed in the Providence Journal. April 2.
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.
Department of Sociology Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Award
Brown University.
Rural Sociological Society - NRRIG Graduate Student Paper Award
For Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B., “Contested extractivism: Impact assessment, public engagement, and environmental knowledge production in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.”
Dellinger Symposium Poster Award
First-place poster award for graduate research (tie). Presented at the Dellinger Symposium of the Superfund Research Program (Louisana State University).
Department of Sociology Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Award
Brown University.
Governance of Large Mine Permitting
Graduate student research position, full academic funding 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years. Supported by National Science Foundation award #1642226.
Florence Tinker Matteossian Memorial Grant ($4,214)
Competitive grant to support graduate student research.
Graduate Student Senate Mini-Grant
University of Vermont.
Rubenstein Graduate Student Association Mini-Grant
University of Vermont.
Karen T. Romer Undergrad. Teaching and Research Award ($3,000)
Competitive grant to support undergraduate research.
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. April 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.” March 17.
Invited lecture, ENVS 1247 (Brown University)
“New methods to identify historic urban hazards.” Providence, RI. February 18.
Urban Theory and Data Lab (Harvard University)
“Urban environmental inequality in the 19th century.” Cambridge, MA. October 29.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
“Resource materiality and mining in Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.” New Orleans, LA. April 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. December 11-15.
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Graduate Symposium
“Land use, power, and knowledge in the Northern resource frontier.” Burlington, VT. October 13.
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. August 30 - September 2.
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting
“Resource materiality and resistance to mineral development in Bristol Bay, Alaska.” Winnipeg, MB. December 5-9.
Methods for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (Brown University)
Teaching assistant.
Human Ecology, Health, and Sustainability in the Circumpolar Arctic (University of Vermont)
Co-taught with Dr. Bindu Panikkar.
Social Processes and the Environment (University of Vermont)
Teaching assistant.
Environmental Policy and Activism (University of Vermont)
Teaching assistant.
Race, Culture, and Natural Resources (University of Vermont)
Teaching assistant.
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)
Volunteer teacher.
Governance of 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; Pacific Sociological Association; American Association of Geographers (2016-2018); Society for the Social Studies of Science (2016-2018).
I use a wide array of computational tools in my research, including statistical analysis in R and Stata; spatial analysis in R, ArcGIS, and QGIS; and Python-based automation, web scraping, and machine learning applications.
CV dated April 2021
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