Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
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Jonathan Tollefson
Sociology
Biography
Jonathan's current research investigates the historical formation of environmental inequality and segregation, drawing on computational and spatial methods to reconstruct the distribution of 19th-century fossil fuel infrastructure in US cities over time.