Faculty

Valerie J. Gunter is currently a visiting associate professor at Michigan State University, after having been displaced from the University of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.  Dr. Gunter's specialities include environmental sociology, community sociology, political sociology, social problems theory, science and medicine, and qualitative, historical, and case study methods.  Her research focuses on environmental, technological, scientific and medical controversies at the local and national levels.  She is a co-editor of Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine (New York University Press, 2000) and a co-author of Volatile Places: Understanding Communities and Environmental Conflicts (in press, Pine Forge Press).  She has published articles in such journals as Social Problems, Rural Sociology, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Inquiry, and Society & Natural Resources.  She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1994, her M.S. from Texas A&M University in 1985, and her B.A. from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1982.

413B Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 355-6637
gunterv@msu.edu