Austin Luzbetak

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

Open Close

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Sociology, Colorado State University, 2024
• M.S.: Environmental Humanities, University of Utah, 2017
• B.A.: Political Science; Earth, Society, and Environmental Sustainability, University of Illinois, 2014

Specialties

• Environmental Justice
• Critical Criminology
• Green Criminology
• Punishment and Society
• Human Dimensions of Climate Change

Publications

Open Close

Publications

• Tara Opsal, Austin Luzbetak, Stephanie Malin, and India Luxton (2022). Layered sites of environmental justice: Considering the case of prisons. Sociological Inquiry, 93(4), 852-876.
• Tara Opsal, Austin Luzbetak, Tara O'Connor Shelley (2020). Living at Extractive Sites: Invisible Harm and Green Victimization in the Oil Fields. Rural Sociology, 86(2), 229-259.
• Becca Chalit Hernandez, Austin Luzbetak (2021). Fat in food & environmental justice: lessons from fat studies scholarship. Fat Studies, 12(1), 55-71.

Awards

Open Close

Awards

• Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award, SAGE Publishing, 2023
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Colorado State University, 2021
• Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award, 2019

Courses

Open Close

Courses

• SOC4311: Power, Justice & the Environment
• SOC4190: LCJ Topics - A Planet In Crisis: Crimes Against the Environment
• SOC4111: Sociology of Deviance
• SOC1101: Law, Crime & Punishment
• SOC3801: Sociological Research Methods