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Lisa McDevitt is an Associate Professor at a well-respected University in a warm climate. Her research has focused primarily on environmental sociology and social class, with a particular focus on low-income communities. With a background in earth science, as well as social science, she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Past research has focused on the community-level impacts of harmful industrial practices, as well as on the targeting of minority groups by the corporations responsible for these practices. She is currently involved in two projects: one to better understand discrimination in low-income housing developments, and one that seeks to understand the potential for sustainable energy sources within these developments. She has published a number of articles on these topics, and is the author of the Fracked Community, an analysis of neighborhoods and towns torn apart by natural gas extraction. She is also currently working on a memoir of her experiences growing up in a government-subsidized housing development, and the injustices she witnessed there.

Research Interests: Environmental sociology, social class, social inequality, disasters