Stephanie Malin is an environmental sociologist specializing in the community impacts of extraction and energy production. Her main interests include environmental justice, environmental health, social movements and market-based economies. She also examines communities building more distributive and regenerative systems. Malin serves as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University, and she is an adjunct associate professor with the Colorado School of Public Health. She co-founded and co-directs the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, which co-leads the EPA-funded Mountains to Plains Thriving Communities Collaborative (MaPTCC).
She is an award-winning teacher of courses on environmental justice, water and social justice and environmental sociology. Stephanie is the author of two books, “Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change,” with Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, and “The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice”. She has published her research in journals such as Social Problems, Social Forces, Environmental Politics, Journal of Rural Studies, and Society and Natural Resources. Stephanie conducts public sociology and engaged scholarship, and her work can additionally be found in news outlets like The Conversation and High Country News’ Writers on the Range. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (part of National Institutes of Health), the American Sociological Association, the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, the Rural Sociological Society’s Early Career Award and the Colorado Water Center.
Stephanie completed a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, working with Dr. Phil Brown and his Contested Illnesses Research Group, after earning her Ph.D. in Sociology from Utah State University.
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