Publications

Journal Articles

Scoville, Caleb and Andrew McCumber. Forthcoming. “Climate Silence in Sociology? How Mainstream Sociology, Environmental Sociology and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change.” Sociological Perspectives

McCumber, Andrew and Adam Davis. Forthcoming. “Elite Environmental Aesthetics: Placing Nature in a Changing Climate.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 

McCumber, Andrew. Forthcoming. “The Indoors/Outdoors Divide: Homelessness, Rat Infestation, and Spatial Management in Downtown Los Angeles.” Sociological Forum.
(Supplementary Materials Available here.)

McCumber, Andrew, Abigail Sullivan, Matthew Houser, Ranjan Muthukrishnan. 2023. “Are lakes a public good or exclusive resource? Towards value-based management for aquatic invasive species.” Environmental Science and Policy. 139: 130-138.

Scoville, Caleb, Andrew McCumber (equal lead authorship), Razvan Amironesei, and June Jeon; The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Socius. 8 (January-December 2022)

Dryden, Patrick Neil and Andrew McCumber (Equal Co-Authorship). “The Bestiary in the Candy Aisle: A Framework for Nature in Unexpected Places.” Environmental Humanities.14 (1): 110–128.

McCumber, Andrew. 2021. “‘You Can’t Ignore the Rat’: Nonhuman Animals in Boundary Work.” Cultural Sociology. 15 (1): 69-90

McCumber, Andrew and Zachary King. 2020. “The Wild in Fire: Human Aid to Animals in the Disasters of the Anthropocene.” Environmental Values.

McCumber, Andrew. 2018. “Producing the Natural: Mobilities and the Managed Aesthetics of Nature.” Sociology Compass 12(9).

McCumber, Andrew. 2017. “Building ‘Natural’ Beauty: Drought and the Shifting Aesthetics of Nature in Santa Barbara, California.” Nature + Culture 12(3):246-262.

Dryden, Patrick Neil and Andrew McCumber (equal co-authorship). 2017. “#Nature: Postmodern Narrative, Place, and Nature in Santa Barbara, California.” Environmental Sociology 3(3):286-296.

Book Chapters

McCumber, Andrew. 2018. “It Would Make More Sense for it to Be There Than Not: Constructing Night Vale as a Place.” Pp. 69-91 in Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting between Weather and the Void, edited by J. Weinstock. London: Palgrave.

Book Reviews

Bargheer, Stefan. 2018. Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany. British Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming.

Awards and Fellowships

Marvin E. Olsen Award for Best Student Paper (ASA Section on Environmental Sociology), 2020*

Jane Goodall Award for Graduate Student Research (ASA Section on Animals and Society), 2019**

Flacks Fund for Democratic Possibilities Award, 2019

UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, 2019

Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences Award for Best Student Paper, 2019**

Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara Burnand-Partridge Foundation Award, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

UCSB Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, 2018

• Supported dissertation fieldwork in The Galapagos Islands and in Detroit, Michigan

American Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Enders Student Fellowship, 2018

• Supported dissertation fieldwork in Alberta, Canada

*Awarded for “Killing for Life: Species Eradication and the Ecology of Meaning in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.”

**Awarded for “‘You Can’t Ignore the Rat’: Nonhuman Animals in Boundary Work”