Barbara L. Allen
Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Science and
Technology Studies at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center
7054 Haycock Rd, Falls Church, VA 22043
Phone: (703) 538-3780 FAX: (703) 538-8485
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 Barbara Allen
teaches graduate courses in the social study of science and technology at
Virginia Tech's Washington DC-area campus in Falls Church, VA. Most recently she
has taught courses on: sociology/anthropology of science and technology, risk and public participation in environmental decision-making, qualitative research methods, and advanced social theory. Her past research and current book was
on the dynamics of regulation, science, and environmental justice in Louisiana's chemical corridor. Specifically, how
citizens and experts worked together to reshape an environmentally fragile
landscape along the Mississippi River near New Orleans sometimes called "cancer alley." She is currently working on two research projects. One looks at the efficacy of NGO efforts in the rebuilding and repatriation of New Orleans after Katrina from both the perspectives of the NGOs and the citizens. Her other project is international, comparing citizen participation in science and regulation in the U.S. to similar industries in the European Union (Italy).
Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in STS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
1999, Allen had been professor of architecture at several universities
including, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Tulane University, and
University of Hawaii. She is also a dance critic for the Washington Post.
Publications in Science & Technology Studies
Most Recent Books
2003 Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
2006 Toward a Resilient Metropolis: The Role of State and Land Grant Universities in the 21st Century, (Alexandria, VA: Metropolitan Institute Press) co-edited with Chris Nelson and David Trauger.
2006 Southern United States: An Environment History, (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press) co-edited with Donald Davis, Craig Colten, Megan Nelson, and Mikko Saikku.
Other Publications
2008 "Environment, Health, and Missing Information," Environmental History, Vol. 13:4, pp.659-666.
2008 "Treme: The Challenges of an Equitable Recovery in New Orleans" co-authored with Isabelle Maret, Projections: MIT Journal of PLanning,, Vol. 8, pp.190-211.
2007 "La Transformazione Industriale del Basso Corso del Mississippi in Louisiana," I Frutti di Demetra, Vol. 14, pp.47-56.
2007 "Environmental Justice, Local Knowledge, and After Disaster Planning in New Orleans," Technology in Society, Vol. 29, pp.153-159.
2007 "Environmental Justice and Expert Knowledge in the Wake of a Disaster," Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37:1, pp.103-110.
2007 "On Performative Regionalism," in Architectural Regionalism,, ed. Vincent Canizaro, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press) pp.421-426.
2007 "Cyborg Theories and Situated Knowledges: Some Speculations on a Cultural Approach to Technology," in The Green Braid: Ecology, Economy and Social Equity in Service of Sustainable Design,, eds. Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria, (New York: Routledge), PP.82-90
2006 "The Making of Cancer Alley: A Historical View of Louisiana's Chemical Corridor, " Southern United States: An Environmental History, ed. Donald E. Davis (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO) (forthcoming).
2005 "Politics, Social Justice, and the Environment,"
Science, Technology, and Society, ed. Sal Restivo
(New York: Oxford University Press).
2005 "The Problem With Epidemiology Data in Assessing Environmental Health Impacts of Toxic Sites," Environmental Exposure and Health, ed. M.M. Aral et. al (Boston, MA: WIT Press) pp.467-475.
2004 "Shifting Boundary Work: Issues and Tensions in
Environmental Health Science in the Case of Grand
Bois, Louisiana," Science as Culture, Vol. 13, No. 4,
429-448.
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