R. Scott Frey     

Professor and Head
Ph.D. 1980 Colorado State University
Room 902 McClung Tower
Office (865) 974-1169
E-Mail: rfrey2@utk.edu

Scott Frey received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Colorado State University in 1980. He has taught previously at George Washington University, Kansas State University, and the University of North Florida. He has also held appointments at Argonne National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation. He has contributed chapters to recent books on environmental issues and he has published his work in numerous periodicals, including the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review. He has received research funding from the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of World Systems Research and serves currently on the editorial boards of Human Ecology Review and Sociological Inquiry.

INTEREST AREAS

Environmental Sociology, Development and Globalization, Comparative/Historical Sociology

CURRENT RESEARCH

1. Preparing a book on the globalization of health, safety, and environmental risks. Attention centers on how and why core-based hazardous products, production processes, and wastes are exported to the peripheral zones of the world-system.

2. Comparing causes and human responses to environmental degradation in several diverse geographic settings, including Cuba, the Ogallala Aquifer region of the US Great Plains, the maquiladora urban centers of northern Mexico, and the Special Economic Zones of southern Guangdong Province in China.

3. Analyzing the cross-national determinants of development, including various forms of human well-being and alternative forms of sustainability.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

R. Scott Frey, Sabrina McCormick, and Eugene A. Rosa. 2007. “The Sociology of Risk.” Pp. 81-87 in The Handbook of 21 st Century Sociology, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis Peck, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

R. Scott Frey. 2006. “The Flow of Hazardous Exports in the World-System.” Pp. 133-149 in Globalization and the Environment, edited by Andrew Jorgenson and Ed Kick. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Press.

R. Scott Frey. 2003. “The Transfer of Core-Based Hazardous Production Processes to the Export Processing Zones of the Periphery: The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico.” Journal of World-Systems Research 9:317-354.

Thomas Dietz, R. Scott Frey, and Eugene A. Rosa. 2002. “Technology, Risk, and Society.” Pp. 329-369 in Handbook of Environmental Sociology, edited by Riley Dunlap and William Michelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

R. Scott Frey, editor. 2001. The Environment and Society Reader. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

R. Scott Frey. 2001. “Environmental Problems.” Pp. 3-25 in The Environment and SocietyReader, edited by R. Scott Frey. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

R. Scott Frey and Carolyn Field. 2000. “The Determinants of Infant Mortality in the Less Developed Countries: A Cross-National Test of Five Theories.” Social Indicators Research 52:215-234.