Sociology Department

Elise Largesse

Ph.D. Student

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Elise Largesse

Contact

Email: elise.largesse@bc.edu

Education

  • M.A., Boston College
  • B.A., New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Research Interests

Environmental sociology, environmental justice, sociology of place, community sociology, inequality, human and critical geography, climate change, representations in language and image, development, disaster, tourism, research methods

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Sociology

Biography

Elise Largesse is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow, focusing in the areas of Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Place. Her research interests also include media discourse and visual culture, inequality, risk, community sociology, critical geography, the sociology of development, and research methods.

Her dissertation work examines the relationships between place, community, environment and economy on Nantucket Island, MA, through a multi-method study involving ethnography, participant observation, document analysis and spatial analysis using GIS data. 

Elise redesigned and has been teaching the Environmental Justice course at Boston College from Fall 2019-Spring 2021. For this work, she was awarded the 2020 Donald J. White Excellence in Teaching Award.

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