Overview

Stacia works on an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods research project funded by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council, entitled ‘Attitudes toward Shale Gas in Space and Time.’ The project is focused on exploring how public responses to shale gas development unfold at national, regional, and local scales in the UK. She is also working on a second research project funded through the same program, which focuses on risk perception and community engagement in the context of geothermal energy.  She is the lead editor of the just-released book "Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures.” Stacia received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 from Colorado State University, where her dissertation work involved multi-sited critical policy ethnography to explore how power exacerbates issues of procedural justice across multiple governance scale decision-making processes for regulating oil and gas development in Colorado’s Front Range.

Broad Research Specialisms

Temporality, spatiality, scale and power in environmental, energy and climate justice contexts.