Dr. Diane Bates
Associate Professor and Department Chair
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Phone: (609) 771-3176 |
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Degrees Earned
- Ph.D. 2000 Rutgers University, Sociology
- M.A. 1997 Rutgers University, Sociology
- B.A. 1992 Humboldt State University, Sociology
Courses Taught
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Inequality, Pollution and Environment
- Social Change in Latin America
- Introduction to Sociology
- Survey Research Methods
- Socio-Spatial Analysis
Recent Research and Activities
Dr. Bates has primary research interests in environmental sociology and development in Latin America. She has published multiple articles that document the social impacts of environmental change in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Research work with TCNJ students has focused on local environmental issues, including New Jersey's controversial bear hunt, community impacts of the Delaware River floods, and environmental justice controversies in nearby Trenton. Dr. Bates is a strong advocate of community engaged learning, and has worked for the past three years establishing a summer research program that engages students in the Trenton metropolitan area. For more information on this project, please visit the program's website. In Spring 2010, Dr. Bates will be on a research sabbatical, continuing her work on social and environmental change in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Publications
Bates, Diane C. 2009. “Population, Demography, and the Environment.” Pp. 107-124 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, ed. by Kenneth Alan Gould and Tammy Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press.
Harker, Dave and Diane C. Bates. 2007. “The Black Bear Hunt in New Jersey: A Constructionist Analysis of an Intractable Conflict.” Society and Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies 15, 4: 329-352.
Bates, Diane C. 2007. “The Barbecho Crisis, la Plaga del Banco, and International Migration: Structural Adjustment in Ecuador’s Southern Amazon.” Latin American Perspectives 34,3: 108-122.
Bates, Diane C. 2006. “Urban Sprawl and the Piney Woods: Deforestation in the San Jacinto Watershed.” Pp. 173-184 in Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, ed. By Martin Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rudel, Thomas K., Diane C. Bates, and Susan L. Golbeck. 2006. “How do Poor, Remote, Rural Places get Child Care Centers?: Patriarchy, Out-Migration, and Political Opportunities in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Human Organization 65, 1: 1-7.
Bates, Diane C. and Thomas K. Rudel. 2004. “Ascendiendo en la ‘escala agricola’: movilidad social y motivaciones migratorias.” Ecuador Debate Diciembre: 103-120.
Bates, Diane C. and Thomas K. Rudel. 2004. “Climbing the ‘Agricultural Ladder’: Social Mobility and Motivations for Migration in an Ecuadorian Colonist Community.” Rural Sociology 69, 1: 59-75.
Bates, Diane C. and Joanne Ardovini. 2004. “Victims in Developing Countries.” Pp. 194-208 in Victimizing Vulnerable Groups: Images of Uniquely High-Risk Crime Targets, ed. by Charisse T.M. Coston. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Bates, Diane C. 2002. “Environmental Refugees?: Classifying Human Migration caused by Environmental Change.” Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 23,5: 465-477.
Rudel, Thomas K., Diane C. Bates, and Rafael Machinguiashi. 2002. “Ecologically Noble Amerindians?: Cattle Ranching and Cash Cropping among Shuar and Colonist Smallholders in Ecuador.” Latin American Research Review 37, 1: 144-159.
Rudel, Thomas K., Diane C. Bates, and Rafael Machinguiashi. 2002. “A Tropical Forest Transition?: Agricultural Change, Out-migration, and Secondary Forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92,1: 87-102.
Bates, Diane C. and Thomas K. Rudel. 2000. “The Political Ecology of Conserving Tropical Rain Forests: A Cross-national Analysis.” Society and Natural Resources 13: 619-634.
Rudel, T.K., K. Flesher, D. Bates, S. Baptista, and P. Homgren. 2000. “The tropical deforestation literature: historical and geographical patterns.” Unasylva 203,51: 11-18.
