Caleb Scoville (@calebscoville) / X

Caleb Scoville

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Caleb Scoville

@calebscoville

sociology prof. studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. now posting on bsky (same handle).

Tufts University

Joined April 2008

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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Apr 16, 2025
I am grateful, honored, and still a bit shocked to be named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for my project, “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.” carnegie.org/awards/honoree… #CarnegieFellows @CarnegieCorp
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Jun 2, 2023
Replying to @BigMeanInternet
And today’s right-wing “trads” are cosplaying as yesteryear’s “dream of the 1890s” hipsters. So much political division is just a cultural lag resentment complex.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Mar 16, 2022
Check out my new article, “Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta” now out in the American Journal of Sociology! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…
Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Jul 8, 2023
New article with @AndrewHMcCumber, “Climate Silence in Sociology?” for a forthcoming symposium in Sociological Perspectives edited by @pardoguerra & @fdrubio1977. Thread to come soon, but for now here is the article: doi.org/10.1177/073112…
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Apr 4, 2023
I am honored, & still a bit shocked, to be among the 2023 ACLS Fellows! This will support the rounding out of my book project on the Delta Smelt, tentatively titled, "Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline"
ACLS
@ACLS1919
Apr 4, 2023
ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars: bit.ly/3nzZfCb
Caleb Richard Scoville
From acls.org
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Aug 17, 2023
I am happy to report that my book project, tentatively entitled Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline, is now under advance contract with @ColumbiaUP!
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Mar 11, 2024
Replying to @BL_Balthaser
these "misinterpretations" are in bad faith.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Mar 15, 2024
Replying to @calebscoville
As I’ve gotten older and the economy has gotten more brutal, I have come to the estimation that half of economic activity in our society is people exploiting bottlenecks to extort people who are trapped, & that extortion gets so ingrained we treat it like critical infrastructure.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
May 22, 2024
My article, “How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy,” is out in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology (@CulturalSociol)! link.springer.com/article/10.105… (Lack access? Let me know. I’ll send you a PDF.)
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
May 8, 2024
Replying to @calebscoville
Somehow the megadosing tuna sandwiches thing is what really floored me. Bro is out there making stuff up about vaccines and literally mercury poisoning himself. The brain worm thing is legit scary.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Mar 29, 2024
Replying to @calebscoville
folks, this is an interpretation of what Bourdieu says here. it’s inspired by something we did w/ my theory teacher Michael Burawoy in grad school. we work through the text to build this out. for the record, I don’t think it’s totally fair to M/W/D and overstates B’s omniscience.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Feb 25, 2024
Replying to @timgill924
Sending your CV to The Hague
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Mar 15, 2024
Replying to @calebscoville
See, like much of the financial, real estate, healthcare, and insurance industries.
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
Jul 6, 2023
I wrote a short piece for the @ASApoliticalsoc section newsletter, States, Power, & Societies, called Climate Change and the Culture Wars. Check it out here:
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