Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Biography
Corrie Grosse began teaching at CSB/SJU in the fall of 2017. She specializes in the intersection of energy, climate justice and grassroots activism. Her current research examines how Native organizations are using renewable energy to advance self-determination. She has also worked with grassroots and Native-led organizations in MN around resistance to the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, for which she won a national community-engaged research award. Corrie has also won both of CSB+SJU’s teaching awards, an international teaching award, and the CSB+SJU Advisor of the Year Award. Her book, Working Across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction, explores how communities in Idaho and California build effective energy coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. She also has studied the priorities and concerns of youth climate justice activists at the United Nations climate change negotiations, the exclusion of Indigenous peoples and values from these negotiations, and how Ecuadorian women who work in Fairtrade rose production balance work and family. Originally from Teton Valley, Idaho, she loves being outside. Some of her favorite activities are running with her dogs, biking, bandy ball, and dancing with her partner and two kids, and making good food. For more information about her work and climate justice, visit her website: www.corriegrosse.com.
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology with Interdepartmental Emphasis in Environment and Society, University of California Santa Barbara
- M.A., Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
- B.A., Sociology and Spanish, University of Idaho
Teaches
- INTG 100 Hope in Action
- ENVR 150 Intro to Environmental Studies
- ENVR 279A Environmental Methods and Analysis
- ENVR 303 Climate Action Workshop
- ENVR 305 Global Climate Policy
- ENVR 320 Research Colloquium
- ENVR 327 Gender and Environment
- ENVR 377A Energy and Society
- ENVR 395 Research Seminar
Selected Publications
- Fine, Julia Coombs, Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, and Brigid Mark. 2023. “A Song in a Cold Place: The Role of Emotions in Motivating Youth Activism and Advancing Justice at the COP.” Climate and Development: 1-12.
- Grosse, Corrie and Brigid Mark (CSB ’20). 2023. “Does renewable electricity promote Indigenous sovereignty? Reviewing support, barriers, and recommendations for solar and wind energy development on Native lands in the United States.” Energy Research and Social Science 104: 103243.
- Burrell (CSB ’21), Melissa, Corrie Grosse and Brigid Mark (CSB ’20). 2022. “Resistance to Petro-Hegemony: A Three Terrains of Power Analysis of the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline in Minnesota.” Energy Research and Social Science.
- Grosse, Corrie. 2022. Working Across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Grosse, Corrie and Brigid Mark. 2020. “A Colonized COP: Indigenous Exclusion and Youth Climate Justice Activism at the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations.” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 11(3):146–170
- Grosse, Corrie. 2019. “Climate Justice Movement Building: Values and Cultures of Creation in Santa Barbara, California.” Social Sciences 8(79):1-26. Download PDF.
- Foran, John, Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, and Theo LeQuesne. 2018. “This Will Change Everything: Teaching the Climate Crisis.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 28(2): 126-47. Download PDF.
Contact Information
Email
[email protected]
Office and Phone
SJU Peter Engel 253
320-363-2552