Jordan Fox is associate professor in the Department of Sociology. He is both a theorist and empirical researcher, who primarily uses qualitative methods. His broad interest is in our limited ability to control nature. Towards this end, Jordan’s current research examines a range of topics, including how and why powerful institutions have become strategically ignorant of ecological complexity; the socio-material origins of both invasive species ecology and fire ecology; and how social science should (or should not) incorporate natural science.

Please note that Jordan published under the name Jordan Fox Besek until 2023.

• PhD, University of Oregon, 2017
• MA, University at Buffalo, 2012
• BA, Fordham University, 2006

• Classical Sociological Theory (graduate)
  
• Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate)
• Sociology of Science (graduate)
  
• Environmental Sociology (graduate)
• Cinematic Sociology
  
• Social Change