Scott Frickel

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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Scott Frickel

Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology

Scott_Frickel@brown.edu

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Research Profile

Research Interests Environment-society interactions, Experts and knowledge/ignorance, Social movements, Social theory, Risk and disaster, Urbanization

Recent News

News from IBES

IBES announces 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees

October 2, 2025

IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.

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News from IBES

Summer reads from IBES scholars

July 15, 2025

Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

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Chemical & Engineering News

Scientists face deficiencies in leadership countering US policies

April 16, 2025

IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary for this article.

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The Brown Daily Herald

What Brown experts, RI officials think about the EPA’s planned climate rollbacks

April 4, 2025

IBES Professors Kim Cobb, Scott Frickel, and Meredith Hastings offered commentary for this article, condemning the rollback of federal environmental oversight.

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The New York Times

Hit by ‘Gut Punches,’ Scientists Band Together to Protest Trump

March 6, 2025

IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary about the tradition of science activism.

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STAT

Trump’s first term birthed the March for Science. Where are the science activists now?

January 31, 2025

IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary about science organizing and activism.

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