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Grant , Don

Professor

Positions

Professor, Sociology

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Don Grant is a Professor of Sociology and a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute. In addition to studying the organizational and policy determinants of industrial pollution, he conducts research on inequality, political economy, workplace culture, health care, culture, and religion.

keywords

Energy and Climate Change, Environmental Sociology, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Health and Society; Stratification, Research Methods (fsQCA)

Publications

selected publications

book
- Nursing the Spirit Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers 2023
- Super Polluters Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions 2020
chapter
- Super Polluters. 208-222. 2024
journal article
- The Long Shadow of Partisan Hostility: How Affective Polarization Hinders Democracies’ Ability to Mitigate Climate Change. American Sociological Review. 19-54. 2026
- A worldwide analysis of stranded fossil fuel assets' impact on power plants' CO₂ emissions. Nature Communications. 2024
- Can transnational municipal networks mitigate the carbon pollution of the world's power plants?: an empirical analysis. npj Climate Action. 2023
- Blocking the sun? Social movements, industries, and the adoption of solar energy in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science. 2023
- Sociological contributions to the study of social innovation: A critical review. Sociology Compass. 2023
- Reducing CO₂ emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants. Environmental Research Letters. 2021
- Pathways to Carbon Pollution: The Interactive Effects of Global, Political, and Organizational Factors on Power Plants' CO₂ Emissions. Sociological Science. 58-92. 2018
- The effects of economic and political integration on power plants' carbon emissions in the post-soviet transition nations. Environmental Research Letters. 2017
- Civil Society in an Age of Environmental Accountability: How Local Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations Reduce US Power Plants' Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Sociological Forum. 94-115. 2017
- Bridging Science and Religion: How Health-Care Workers as Storytellers Construct Spiritual Meanings. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 465-484. 2016
- Disproportionality in Power Plants' Carbon Emissions: A Cross-National Study. Scientific Reports. 2016
- How organizational and global factors condition the effects of energy efficiency on CO₂ emission rebounds among the world's power plants. Energy Policy. 89-93. 2016
- Affirming Selves through Styles of Care: When, How, and Why Hospital Workers Craft Different Patient-Centered Cultures. Social problems. 180-202. 2016
- A sustainable "building block"?: The paradoxical effects of thermal efficiency on US power plants' CO2 emissions. Energy Policy. 398-402. 2014
- Effectiveness of US state policies in reducing CO₂ emissions from power plants. Nature Climate Change. 977-982. 2014
- Targeting Extreme Polluters: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Energy-Related CO2 Emissions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 376-380. 2013
- The double diversion: mapping its roots and projecting its future in environmental studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 69-77. 2012
- Bringing the Polluters Back In: Environmental Inequality and the Organization of Chemical Production. American Sociological Review. 479-504. 2010
- Pathways to Meaning: A New Approach to Studying Emotions at Work. American Journal of Sociology. 327-364. 2009
- Pluralistic Ignorance among Assembled Peers. Sociological Perspectives. 59-79. 2009
- Do Facilities with Distant Headquarters Pollute More? How Civic Engagement Conditions the Environmental Performance of Absentee Managed Plants. Social Forces. 189-214. 2004
- Do Manufacturers Pollute Less Under the Regulation-Through-Information Regime? What Plant-Level Data Tell Us. Sociological Quarterly. 471-486. 2004
- Do Foreign-Owned Plants Pollute More?: New Evidence from the U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory. Society & Natural Resources. 171-179. 2004
- Employers’ Opinions on Living Wage Ordinances. Working USA: the journal of labor and society. 71-82. 2004
- Spiritual Inverventions: Why, How, and When Nurses Use Them. Holistic Nursing Practice. 36-41. 2004
- Spirituality in the workplace: New empirical directions in the study of the sacred. Sociology of religion. 265-283. 2004
- Neosecularization and Craft Versus Professional Religious Authority in a Nonreligious Organization. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 479-487. 2003
- Are Subsidiaries More Prone to Pollute? New Evidence from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory^*. Social Science Quarterly. 162-173. 2003
- Organizational size and pollution: The case of the US chemical industry. American Sociological Review. 389-407. 2002
- Symbols, Stories, and Practices: New Empirical Directions in the Study of Religious Meaning. Sociological Quarterly. 233-251. 2001
- Self-Employment and Effects of State-level Labor Market Practices. International Journal of Sociology. 3-27. 2000
- Crime and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy: A Reconsideration of the Class Linkages. Social Forces. 769-798. 1997
- Allowing Citizen Participation in Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Right-to-Sue and Right-to-Know Provisions on Industry’s Toxic Emissions. Social Science Quarterly. 859-874. 1997
- Religion and Green Politics. Environmental Ethics. 115-134. 1997
- Global Smokestack Chasing: A Comparison of the State-level Determinants of Foreign and Domestic Manufacturing Investment. Social problems. 23-38. 1996
- The Political Economy of New Business Formation Across the American States, 1970-1985. Social Science Quarterly. 28-42. 1996
- Regulation through Information: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of State‐sponsored Right‐to‐know Programs on Industrial Toxic Pollution. Review of Policy Research. 339-352. 1995
- Measuring State-Level Economic Development Programs, 1970-1992. Economic Development Quarterly. 134-145. 1995
- The Political Economy of Business Failures Across the American States, 1970-1985: The Impact of Reagan’s New Federalism. American Sociological Review. 851-873. 1995
- The Political Economy of Manufacturing Growth and Decline across the American States, 1970-1985. Social Forces. 33-63. 1994
- Union Presence, Class, and Individual Earnings Inequality. Work and occupations. 429-451. 1993
- Positional Power, Class, and Individual Earnings Inequality: Advancing New Structuralist Explanations. Sociological Quarterly. 85-109. 1993
- Why Do Strikes Turn Violent? New Evidence from Ontario. American Journal of Sociology. 1117-11150. 1991
- Revisiting Metropolitan Racial Inequality: The Case for a Resource Approach. Social Forces. 1121-1142. 1990

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