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Christina Prell Ph.D.

Christina Prell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Geographical Sciences
1165 Lefrak
College Park , MD 20742
Office Phone: 301-405-9369

Education:

  1. Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003
  2. M.S. in Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1997
  3. B.A. in English Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1993

Biography:

Christina Prell's research focuses on the intersection of social networks and the environment. On a more local or regional scale, her work considers the role of social networks in shaping and/or diffusing views, values, and/or cultural beliefs about the environment and natural resource management. On a global scale, she considers how the structure of global trade networks drive and/or co-evolve with a number of environmental inequalities, chief among these being between-country differences in pollution, as embodied in trade. She has published articles in such venues as Global Environmental Change, PloS ONE, Social Forces and Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and she has published two books on social networks and network analysis; the first is a sole-authored book entitled, Social Network Analysis: History, theory, and methodology (Sage), and the second is a co-edited book with Orjan Bodin, entitled Social Networks and Natural Resource Management (Cambridge University Press). On an undergraduate level, Christina has taught courses on research methods and the social perspectives pertaining to the environment and/or coupled human-natural systems; on the graduate level, she has taught courses on social network analysis, research methods, and coupled systems.