Charlotte Ryan
Professor Charlotte Ryan serves on the Steering Committee of UML’s Climate Change Initiative and coordinates the CCI’s Environment and Society minor.
She is a Professor of Sociology with expertise in Social Movement Communication, and Food and Environmental Justice. She conducts basic research on how groups build learning communities, coalitions, and movements.
“The technology we are most lacking (to stem climate change) is the technology of community.”
— Bill McKibben
Selected Publications
Ryan and Jeffreys (2019) Beyond PrimeTime Activism: Communication Activism and Social Change.
Ryan, C., and Brown, K. F. (2015). To Act in Concert: Environmental Communication From a Social Movement Lens. In A. Hansen, and Cox, R. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Communication. New York, USA: Routledge
Additonal Info
Media Research Action Project
URBAN Research Network Publications
Academic Program
Coordinator, Environment and Society
Course
Curriculum Module
Fast Food/Hot Planet Curriculum Page
Contact
Dr. Charlotte Ryan
Associate Professor, Sociology
Dugan, 205G
University of Massachusetts Lowell
E-mail:charlotte_ryan@uml.edu
Phone: 978-934-4310 (W)