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Publications

Demortain, D., Frickel, S., *Beck, S., *Gray, I., *Grundmann, R., *Hannud Abdo, A., *Kinniburgh, F., *Kitson, D., *Matzner, N., *Rea, C., *Tollefson, J., and *Wetts, R. 2026. “Computational science and technology studies? Assembling STS theory-methods packages with computation.” Accepted for publication, Science, Technology, & Human Values.
     *Listed alphabetically

Tollefson, J., Frickel, S., Helgeson, J., and Gore, C. 2026. “Adapting to adaptation: Conceptual development in community resilience planning.” Accepted for publication, Ecology & Society.

Tollefson, J. 2026. “Environment and the racialization of space in US cities.” Social Forces (online first).

  • IPUMS USA: Student Research Award
  • American Sociological Association, Environmental Sociology Section: Graduate Student Paper Award - Honorable Mention
  • Society for the Study of Social Problems, Environment and Technology Division: Brent K. Marshall Award
  • Eastern Sociological Society: Candace Rogers Award - Honorable Mention
  • Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University: Graduate Student Paper Prize

Tollefson, J., Frickel, S., and Gore, C., and Helgeson, J. 2025. “Community resilience planning: What new methods reveal about the formation and transformation of a field.” WIREs Climate Change 16(4): e70015.

Candipan, J. and Tollefson, J. 2024. “Machine learning and large-scale data for understanding urban inequality.” The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, edited by C. Borch and J.P. Pardo-Guerra. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Tollefson, J., Frickel, S., Gonsalves, S., and Marlow, T. 2023. “Parks, people and pollution: A relational study of socioenvironmental succession.” City & Community (special issue: Environmentalizing Urban Sociology) 22(4): 286–307.

Tollefson, J., Frickel, S., Gonsalves, S., Marlow, T., Sucsy, R., Byrns, M., and Orpen-Tuz, M. 2023. “Early childcare and education in a post-industrial landscape: Inequalities in exposure to active and relic manufacturing in metropolitan Providence, Rhode Island.” Environmental Justice 16(4): 309-320.

Frickel, S. and Tollefson, J. 2022. “When environmental inequality racialized: Historical evidence from Providence, Rhode Island.” Socius 8:1-14.

Tollefson, J., Frickel, S. and Restrepo, MI. 2021. “Feature extraction and machine learning techniques for identifying historic urban environmental hazards.” PLoS ONE 16(8): e0255507.

  • American Association of Geographers, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group: John Odland Award - Finalist

Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B. 2020. “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.

  • Rural Sociological Society, Natural Resources RIG: Graduate Student Paper Award

Tollefson, J. 2020. “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. 2018. “Land as material, knowledge and relationships: Resource extraction and subsistence imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska.” Social Studies of Science 48(5): 715-739.

Manuscripts

Tollefson, J. “The environmental dimensions of HOLC redlining decisions.” Working paper. Delivered at Population Association of America (Washington, DC. Apr. 10-13, 2025) and American Sociological Association (Chicago, IL. Aug. 8-12, 2025).

Tollefson, J. “Industrial geography and urban inequality formation in the early 20th century.” Working paper.

Tollefson, J., *Chaves, R., and *Long, M. “New methods for historical research on social and environmental geography in US cities.” Working paper.
     *Master’s student research assistants

Tollefson, J., *Long, M., and *Chaves, R. “Locating Lost Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in US cities.” In progress.
     *Master’s student research assistants

Tollefson, J. and Frickel, S. “STS methods for historical environmental justice research.” Invited chapter for Common(s) in science and technology? Research-action in the SEEKCommons Network (Murillo, L.F., Milia, M. and Bashir, I.B., eds.).

Public-facing writing

Tollefson, J. 2023. “Redlining and segregation in Providence, RI.” Essay for Mapping Inequality. Richmond, VA: University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab.

Tollefson, J. and Frickel, S. 2021. “Gasworks, lost and found.” Urban Omnibus. New York: Architectural League of New York. July 1.

Tollefson, J. and Urso, M. 2018. “Black Lives Matter at St. Patrick’s Day Parade.” Op-ed in the Providence Journal. April 2.