Dr. Sam Castonguay

Biography

Sam Castonguay (Ph.D. Washington State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His teaching and research focus on social environmental inequality, organizational sociology, the sociology of work, and gender studies. Sam’s work examines how organizations create, maintain, and disrupt gender and racial inequalities, particularly through the lens of environmental movement organizations, colleges, universities, and nonprofits. His research has been published in respected venues such as Environmental Sociology and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. In addition to his academic work, Sam serves as the Network Coordinator for the Work and Family Researchers Network, a professional organization dedicated to addressing critical work and family issues. His current research adopts a meso-level approach to studying environmental inequality and justice by employing a blend of longitudinal qualitative content analysis, survey methods, and automated text analysis to examine the legacies of racial injustice within environmental movement organizations. Collaborating with a team of physical, social, and data scientists, Sam has explored the gendered and intersectional aspects of university policies and their impact on the advancement of marginalized faculty in STEM programs, with funding from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program.

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