Jennifer Carrera
Associate Professor | Graduate Program Director
Berkey Hall, 417A
Biography
Jennifer Carrera is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. She has a joint appointment between the Department of Sociology, the Environmental Science and Policy Program and AgBioResearch. Dr. Carrera’s research focuses on community driven questions about environmental and health conditions using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods. From 2018-2021, Dr. Carrera was awarded a Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research Career Award (K01) from
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PhD Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
Publications
Carrera, Jennifer S. and Phil Brown. “Toxicity, Health, and Environment.” Ed. Katharine Legun, Julie Keller, Michael Bell, and Michael Carolan. Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Invited submission. In Press.
Carrera, Jennifer S., Kent Key, Sarah Bailey, Joseph A. Hamm, Courtney A. Cuthbertson, Yvonne Lewis, Susan J. Woolford, E. Hill DeLoney, Ella Greene-Moton, Kaneesha Wallace, DeWaun E. Robinson, Ismael Byers, Patricia Piechowski-Whitney, Luther Evans, Athena McKay, Don Vereen, Arlene Sparks, Karen Calhoun. 2019. Community Science as a Pathway for Resiliency in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan. Social Sciences, 8(3): 94.
Ramirez-Andreotta, Monica, Abby Tapper, Diamond Clough, Jennifer S. Carrera, and Shana Sandhaus. 2019. Understanding the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Benefits and Challenges Associated with Community Gardening to Improve Environmental Public Health Prevention and Intervention.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(3): 494.
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