Diane Sicotte, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: PSA 221
Phone: (215) 895-2264
Email: dms76@drexel.edu
Education
- B.S., Sociology, Portland State University
- M.A., Sociology, Arizona State University
- Ph.D., Sociology, Arizona State University, 2003
Research and Teaching Interests
- Environmental Sociology
- Environmental inequality and injustice (using both qualitative historical and quantitative geographical methods)
- Political Sociology
- Social Stratification and Inequality
- Urban social inequalities of race, class and gender
Research Projects
- 2010 Principal Investigator – The Making of Environmental Injustice in Greater Philadelphia.
- 2009 Principal Investigator – Cumulative Environmental Hazards in the Philadelphia MSA.
Biography
Diane Sicotte’s research focuses on social and environmental inequalities, and environmental injustice. Recent research projects include identifying the Philadelphia-area communities most burdened with environmental hazards; an analysis of social characteristics that coincide with living near the most hazardous facilities in the Philadelphia area; and studies of environmental injustice in inner-city Phoenix and an Arizona copper mining town. She teaches a variety of courses at Drexel, including Environmental Justice, Sociology of the Environment, Sociology of Disasters, Urban Sociology and Women and Men in a Changing Society.
Selected Publications
- Sicotte, Diane. Don’t Waste Us: Environmental Justice through Urban Planning in Philadelphia, USA. Environmental Justice, 3(1): 1-5, 2010.
- Sicotte, Diane. Profit, Pollution and Racism: The Development of Environmental Injustice in a Copper Smelter Town. Human Ecology Review, 16(2): 141-150, 2010.
- Sicotte, Diane. Dealing in Toxins on the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Lessons From a Hazardous Waste Controversy in Phoenix. Social Science Quarterly, 89(5): 1136-1151, 2008.
- Sicotte, Diane and Samantha Swanson. Whose Risk in Philadelphia? Proximity to Unequally Hazardous Industrial Facilities. Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, Num. 2: 515-534, 2007.