Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

University of North Carolina Wilmington (August 2024-present)
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Criminology
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403

Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center (April 2023-present)
Collaborating Professor
1 Greenhouse Road
Kingston, RI 02881

University of North Carolina at Pembroke (August 2020-May 2024)

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
1 University Drive
Pembroke, NC 28372

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2013-August 2014; August 2015-May 2020)

Graduate Assistant
Department of Sociology
702 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801

EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
801 South Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph.D., Sociology (2020)
M.A., Sociology (2016)

Illinois College
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650
B.S., History and Sociology (2013) (magna cum laude)


Areas of Academic Interest: Race and Racism, Civic and Community Engagement, Environmental Sociology, Urban Sociology, Whiteness Studies, Anti-racism, Homelessness, Volunteering, Energy Development, Just Transition

PEER REVIEWED BOOKS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Matthew Jerome Schneider. In Press. Serving the Street: Volunteering as charity, racial justice, and poverty tourism. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. https://www.ugapress.org/9780820375373/serving-the-street/.

Reiter, Abigail B., E. Miranda Reiter, Matthew Jerome Schneider, and Timothy Dacey. 2025. “‘I have to change sometimes little pieces of me so that I don’t come off a certain way’: Managing Black and Brown Identities at the White University.” Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.70024.

Matthew Jerome Schneider, Tessa Newson (student co-author), and Cara Schildtknecht. 2025. “‘What’s right for the environment is right in every other way’: Environmental Volunteering as a Gateway to Environmental Justice Frameworks.” Sociological Spectrum. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2025.2519342.

Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2025. “Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home’s intrinsic beauty”: NIMBYism, environmental privilege, and offshore wind energy in North Carolina, USA.” Coastal Studies and Society 4: 1: 54-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817251315582.

Brian F. O’Neill, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Alejandro Garcia Lozano. 2024. “Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Approach to Ocean Equity.” Environmental Justice. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2023.0067.

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. “‘I Don’t Know What’s Racist’: White invisibility among explicitly color-conscious volunteers.” Qualitative Sociology: 45: 4: 557-589. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09511-9.

Musa Jalal and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. “Bottom-Up Violence Work: Exploring the case of armed racial justice counter-protesters.” In Tyler Flockhart, Abigail B. Reiter, and Matthew Hassett (eds.), The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships: 189-205. https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/312311.

Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2021. “A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting public support for hydraulic fracturing.” The Sociological Quarterly 62: 3: 439-463.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1773350.

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2018. “Exotic Place, White Space: Racialized volunteer spaces in Honduras.” Sociological Forum 33: 3: 690-711. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12439.

PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY

Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2025. “Social Science for a Just Transition.” Sustainability and Climate Change 18: 4: 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/26922932251369516. (Peer reviewed)

Yoshi Ota, Gerald Singh, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Eliana Ritts, Matthew J. Schneider, Mia Strand, and Wilf Swartz. 2024. “An Ocean Declaration to Move from Observation to Action.” npj Ocean Sustainability 3: 1: 54. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00093-3 (Peer reviewed).

Brian F. O’Neill, Mark Nepf, and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2024. “Eight Recommended Readings in Critical Environmental Justice.” Fathom, March 18. https://oceannexus.org/2024/03/18/15-must-reads-critical-environmental-justice/.

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2024. “Factory Farms, Environmental Injustice, and Industrial Extraction in Coastal North Carolina.” Fathom, February 21. https://oceannexus.org/2024/02/21/factory-farms-environmental-injustice-and-industrial-extraction-in-coastal-north-carolina/.

Yoshitaka Ota, Leah Fusco, Christine Knott, Hekia Bodwitch, Brian O’Neill, and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2023. “Comment from Ocean Nexus: Ocean Justice Strategy Request for Information.” Docket Number – CEQ-2023-0004. August 1. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/CEQ-2023-0004-16471. 

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. “Who Volunteers? The need for more inclusive civic institutions.” Bravery: A digital journal, vol. 6. https://www.uncp.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-arts-sciences/bravery.

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022.Discussed research on homeless volunteer services on “Live on Main.” WLNC Scotland County Radio, January 24.

Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew J. Schneider. 2021. “Putting Sociology to Use: Reframing fracking as a public health risk.” Pp. 120-121. In Health Inequalities: A Social Science Approach by M. Reiter and A. Reiter. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2021. “Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal.” The Society Pages, July 21. https://thesocietypages.org/specials/fracking-public-health-and-bidens-green-new-deal/ (Peer reviewed).

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2021. “Cultural Capital and Social Networks: A first-generation student describes the barriers he had to overcome in grad school (Opinion).” Inside Higher Ed, June 1. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/06/01/first-generation-student-describes-barriers-he-had-overcome-grad-school-opinion.  

TEACHING NOTES

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2023. “Teaching Racial Reckoning.” Radical Teacher 127: 73-76. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2023.1139. 

Matt Schneider. 2021. “Rethinking Racism: Using the audit study as a classroom tool.” Mid-South Sociological Association Forum, Fall. http://www.midsouthsoc.org/mssa/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSSA-Forum-Fall-2021.pdf

BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS

Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2024. “Book Review: A climate agenda for system change: from theory to social transformation.” Capitalism Nature Socialism. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2024.2372950.

Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. “Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’ – On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains.” Human Geography. 15: 3: 311-316. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F19427786221098700 (Peer reviewed).

Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2022. “Critiquing Techno-optimism and the Future of Renewables in Shaun Golding’s Electric Mountains.” Sociation 21: 2: 52-54. https://sociation.ncsociologyassoc.org/new-issues-articles/

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Unmai M. Arokiasamy (student co-author) and Matt Schneider. 2024. “Review of You Don’t Look Native to Me.” PhotoBook Journal. January 24. https://photobookjournal.com/2024/01/24/maria-sturm-you-dont-look-native-to-me/.

Matt Schneider. 2023. “Review of Forgotten Seas.” PhotoBook Journal. August 7. https://photobookjournal.com/2023/08/07/tanja-engelberts-forgotten-seas/.

Matt Schneider. 2023. “Review of The Grift.” PhotoBook Journal. June 14. https://photobookjournal.com/2023/06/14/andrew-kochanowski-the-grift/.

Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2020. Touring Homelessness? The reproduction of race, class, and urban space through grassroots homeless services in St. Louis, Missouri. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/107876 (Doctoral dissertation)

  • Director of Research: Monica McDermott, Arizona State University
  • Dissertation Chair: Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Brian F. O’Neill, Meggan Lee, Matthew Jerome Schneider, and Jay Brooks. 2017. “Gender and Sexuality in Global Context.” Proceedings of the Annual Amber Buckley-Shaklee Conference in Sociology. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 14-15.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Edited Volume: E. Brooke Kelly, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Julia Waity, and Tracy Vargas. Understanding Lived Experiences of Poverty (Under Contract with Rowman & Littlefield).

Edited Volume: Brian F. O’Neill, Tim Clark, Christine Knott, Eliana Ritts, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Cinda Scott. A Field Guide to Ocean Equity (In Preparation).

  • Chapter: Brian F. O’Neill, Tim Clark, Christine Knott, Eliana Ritts, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Cinda Scott. “Thinking, Feeling and Talking Through Ocean Equity and Justice: A Conversation” (In Preparation).  
  • Chapter: Brian F. O’Neill, Tim Clark, Christine Knott, Eliana Ritts, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Cinda Scott. “What is equity and justice in, on, and about the oceans?” (In Preparation).
  • Chapter: Matthew Jerome Schneider. “Producing Techno-Optimism: The alternative energy transition as spectacle” (In Preparation). 

Journal Article: Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. “Washing for Co-optation: Theorizing Group Deception, Power, and Absorption in Environmental Politics amidst a Climate of Solutions” (Under Review, Invited at Sociology Compass).  

PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND INVITED TALKS

“Critical Steps for Just Transition.” Invited webinar presentation for the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, University of Rhode Island, Virtual, November 20, 2024. (Co-presenters Leah Fusco, Kurt Ellison, Will Kammin).

“Environmental Volunteering as a Gateway to Environmental Justice Frameworks? An exploratory case study of volunteer water monitors in Coastal Carolina.” 50th annual meeting of the Mid-south Sociological Association, Nashville, TN, October 17, 2024.

“Picturing Sociology: Using Photography as a Classroom Tool.” 2024 North Carolina Sociological Association Annual Conference, Greensboro, NC, March 22, 2024. (Co-panelist Julie Christine Krueger).  

“Using collaborative, interdisciplinary service-learning to investigate pollution and environmental justice.” 2024 Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference, Greensboro, NC, February 14, 2024. (Co-panelists Amber Rock, Debra Buffkin, and Cara Schildtknecht).

“The Book Writing Process.” 49th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, New Orleans, LA, October 12, 2023. (Co-panelists Shelly McGrath, Lauren Norman, and Earl Wright II).

“Toward Environmental Justice.” Invited Talk for Catalyst Program, Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, September 8, 2023.

“Yes, in Their Backyard: Considering the case of North Carolina’s emerging offshore wind industry.” Invited Talk for Ocean Nexus Center, University of Washington, Virtual, July 11, 2023. (Co-Presenter Brian F. O’Neill).

“Sociology, Environmental Justice, and Community Partnerships.” Invited Talk for the REACH Fellowship Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke. June 19, 2023.

“‘Maintaining Order’: Armed racial justice counter-protest and the maintenance of white supremacy.” Invited Talk for Sociology Club, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC. April 12, 2023. (Co-presenter Musa Jalal).

“Teaching Racial Reckoning.” 2023 Social Justice Symposium, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC. April 3, 2023. 

“Making its Way: History, highlights, and current directions of the Mid-South Sociological Association.” 2023 Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 30, 2023. (Co-panelists Shelly McGrath, Meredith Huey Dye, Melencia Johnson, Andrea Hunt, Marcus Brooks).

“Poverty Tourism at Home and Abroad.” Invited Talk for Global Inequalities (SOC 160), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Virtual, November 16, 2022.

“Just Transition or Just Another Transition? Considering the case of North Carolina’s emerging offshore wind industry.” 48th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Nashville, TN. October 14, 2022. (Co-presenter Brian F. O’Neill).

“Doing Sociology.” Invited Talk for the REACH Fellowship Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke. June 29, 2022.

“The Skills You Didn’t Know You Had.” Keynote address to the 2022 Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center Symposium, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC. April 20, 2022. 

“Yes, in Their Back Yard: Making Sense of Local Wind Politics.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, April 13, 2022. (Co-presenter Brian F. O’Neill).

“Racial Justice Movements, Culture, and Change: Reflecting on cultural outcomes and ideological changes in the U.S.” 2022 North Carolina Sociological Association Annual Conference, Virtual, April 1, 2022. 

“The Limits of Charity: Color-blindness and the reproduction of race- and class-based stigma.” 47th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Charlotte, NC, October 21, 2021.

“Reimagining Civic Engagement.” Invited Talk for the Leadership Workshop Series, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Office for Campus Engagement and Leadership, September 28, 2021.

“Navigating Graduate School.” Invited Talk for the REACH Fellowship Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke. July 15, 2021.

“Graduate School as a First-Generation College Graduate.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Virtual, March 21, 2021.

“Navigating Graduate School as a First-Generation College Graduate.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE. April 4, 2020 (Cancelled due to Global Outbreak of COVID-19).

“I Don’t Know What’s Racist”: Color-conscious homeless service volunteers’ understandings of systemic racism and whiteness. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE. April 2, 2020 (Cancelled due to Global Outbreak of COVID-19).

“Touring Homelessness: Volunteer exploration of the homeless “Other” and marginal urban space.” Department of Sociology Workshop Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 12, 2019.

“Touring Homelessness: Understanding race and ideology among grassroots homeless service organizations.” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY. August 11, 2019.

“Volunteering as Racial Meaning Making.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL. April 18, 2019.

“A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting public support for hydraulic fracturing.” Department of Sociology Workshop Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. February 13, 2019. (Co-presenter Brian F. O’Neill).

“Unrepresentative Democracy: Civic engagement in 26 Knight Foundation communities.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN. March 23, 2018.

“The Fracking Treadmill: Analyzing the pragmatic logic of concern for the climate change and hydraulic fracturing in the United States.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN. March 22, 2018. (Co-presenter Brian F. O’Neill).

“Racial Differences in Perception of Personal Volunteer Benefits: A case study of ‘court navigators’ in New York City.” Amber Buckley-Shaklee Graduate Student Conference in Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 15, 2017.

“Exotic Places, White Spaces: Construction of exclusionary white volunteer spaces in the Global South.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee, WI. April 2, 2017. 

“Exotic Places, White Spaces: An in-depth interview study of white volunteers in Honduras.” Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 16, 2016.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of North Carolina Wilmington

  • SOC 524: Social Stratification
    • Spring 2025
  • SOC 315: Urban Sociology
  • SOC 105: Introduction to Sociology
    • Fall 2024

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  • SOC 5020: American Pluralism: Race and Ethnicity in American Life
    • Spring 2022 (Graduate Seminar)
  • SOC 4990: Independent Study
    • Spring 2023 (Race(ism) in the Criminal Legal System)
  • SOC 4850/CRJ 4800: Internships in Sociology and Criminal Justice
    • Spring 2022
  • SOC 4420: Community Resource Development
    • Fall 2020 (Online), Fall 2021 (Online), Fall 2022 (Online), Fall 2023 (Synchronous Online)
  • SOC 3610: Social Research
    • Spring 2023 (Capstone Experiences), Fall 2023 (Capstone Experiences), Spring 2024 (Capstone Experiences)
  • SOC 3240: Sociology of Poverty
    • Spring 2021
  • SOC 3220: Environmental Sociology
    • Spring 2023 (Service Learning)
  • SOC 3210: Social Inequalities
    • Fall 2021 (Writing Enriched)
  • SOC 3130: The Community
    • Spring 2021
  • SOC 3130: Race and Racism
    • Fall 2022, Fall 2023
  • SOC 2090: Social Problems in Modern Society
    • Fall 2020 (Hybrid), Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022 (Online), Spring 2023, Spring 2024 (Online)
  • SOC 1020: Introduction to Sociology
    • Fall 2020 (Hybrid)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • SOC 390: Independent Study on Race(ism) in the Criminal Justice System
    • Fall 2019
  • SOC 310: Sociology of Deviance
    • Summer 2017 (Online)
  • SOC 225: Race and Ethnicity
    • Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Education Justice Project, Danville Correctional Center

  • SOC 373: Social Inequality
    • Spring 2020

FORMAL MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  • Honors Project Advisor
    • Spring 2024: Advising Elizabeth Chavis’ capstone honors project on “Perceptions of Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment and Social Service Utilization in Robeson County.”
  • REACH Fellowship Advisor
    • AY 2023/24: Advising Jenna Humble’s undergraduate research project on how university faculty in the social sciences and humanities navigate politicized academic topics.

  • Honors Project Advisor
    • Spring 2023-Present: Advising Kiki Cohen’s capstone honors project on how beliefs about climate change shape family decision making.
  • Research Supervisor
    • Spring 2023: Conducted interview research with undergraduate research assistant, Tessa Newson, about environmental volunteering and activism.
  • Faculty and Student Civic Service-Learning Fellowship
    • Spring 2022: Collaborated with undergraduate mentee, Katelyn Walker, to develop and implement a local service-learning project with Winyah Rivers Alliance.
  • REACH Fellowship Advisor
    • AY 2021/22: Advised Mattea Sylvester’s undergraduate research project on whiteness and racial identity development in art world spaces.

SERVICE TO THE DESCIPLINE

Guest editor, The PhotoBook Journal (June 2023-Present).

Chair of the Profession, Mid-South Sociological Association (October 2022-Present).

Webmaster, North Carolina Sociological Association (October 2022-Present).

Member of the Executive Council, North Carolina Sociological Association (November 2021-October 2022).

Co-Editor of the Section Newsletter, Remarks, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (September 2019-August 2020).

Member of Professional Issues and Standards Committee, Midwest Sociological Society (March 2018-April 2019)

Peer Reviewer for: Challenges, The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships (edited volume), Sociological Forum, Social Problems

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Senator (Social and Behavioral Sciences) on Faculty Senate, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (August 2022-Present).

Coordinator of the Non-profit Leadership Minor, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (August 2020-Present).

Member of the Social Justice Committee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (November 2020-May 2023).

Member of the Black History Committee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (November 2020-May 2022).

Member of Grievance Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (September 2018-May 2020).

Representative on Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2013- Spring 2017)

Graduate Student Representative on Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (AY 2015-2016)

Graduate Student Representative on Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (AY 2013-2014)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Research Subaward, Ocean Nexus Center, University of Rhode Island, AY 2024/25, ($14,994).

Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Spring 2024.

Research Subaward, Ocean Nexus Center, University of Washington, AY 2023/24 ($10,907).

Outstanding First-Generation Student Advocacy Award Nominee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Spring 2023.

Dean’s Research and Scholarship Fund, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, November 2022 ($1,850).

Outstanding First-Generation Student Advocacy Award Nominee, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Spring 2022.

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Instructor for Race and Ethnicity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2020. 

Second Place in Midwest Sociological Society’s Graduate Student Paper Competition for “A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing.” Midwest Sociological Society February 2020 ($150).

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Instructor for Race and Ethnicity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2019. 

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Lab Instructor for Social Research Methods, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2019. 

Beslow Graduate Student Paper Award for “A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing.” Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2019 ($100).

Department Conference Travel Award, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2019 ($300).

Graduate College Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2019 ($225).

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Instructor for Race and Ethnicity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2018.

Znaniecki Graduate Student Publication Prize for “Exotic Place, White Space.” Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2018 ($200).

Beslow Graduate Student Paper Award for “Exotic Place, White Space.” Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2018 ($100).

George L. Beslow Graduate Fellowship for Dissertation Fieldwork. Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2018 ($1,967.48).

Student Conference Travel Award, Midwest Sociological Society, March 2018 ($150).

Travel and Research Award, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2017 ($287).

Student Conference Travel Award, Midwest Sociological Society, April 2017 ($100).

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Lab Instructor for Social Research Methods, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2016.

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2016.

Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2015.

Newman Civic Fellow, Campus Compact, Spring 2013.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The Sustainability, Equity, and Action Laboratory (Co-Director)
Mid-South Sociological Association (Chair of the Profession)
North Carolina Sociological Association (Webmaster)
PhotoBook Journal Editorial Board (Guest Editor)
Alpha Kappa Delta: The International Sociology Honor Society
American Sociological Association
Climate Social Science Network
International Visual Sociology Association