Social Sciences Division
Associate Professor
Faculty
Environmental Studies Department
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
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Hillary Angelo is an urban-environmental sociologist who studies understandings of the environment and their relationship to large-scale spatial and social transformations. Her work offers a social-theoretical perspective on socio-ecological questions through both historical and contemporary research on urban greening, sustainability planning and policy, infrastructure, and climate change. She is currently writing a book on the American West’s 610 million acres of public lands, which are key sites for climate adaptation and flashpoints of 21st century political conflict.
Hillary received her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and holds a B.A. from Vassar College. Before completing her PhD, she worked for five years with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, primarily on issues of participatory design, immigration, and public space use.
Urbanization, nature, infrastructure, sustainability, democracy and public space, urban and environmental sociology, social theory, visual and historical methods, climate change, public lands and the energy transition
- 2022-2023 Member, Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Princeton
- 2018 Jane Addams Award for Best Article in Community and Urban Sociology from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
- 2017 Berggruen Fellowship, New York University
- 2024. (with Miriam Greenberg). "Environmentalizing Urban Sociology." Special issue for City and Community.
- 2023. "Boomtown: A Solar Land Rush in the West." Harper's Magazine. Cover story.
- 2021. How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens. University of Chicago Press.
See my website (hillaryangelo.com) for current CV and additional information about my research. Photo credit: Andrea Kane, Institute for Advanced Study.