Schneider, Matthew
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"Planet, profit, and progress": Conditioning Communities and Producing Techno-Optimism for the Alternative Energy Transition ,
Invited Talk 2026-06-01
Social Justice, Reflexivity, and Collaboration in Marine Affairs ,
Invited Talk for Department of Marine Affairs 2026-04-01
Focusing on the Future: Developing an Internship Program ,
Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association 2026-03-01
Social Science for a Just Transition ,
Politics of the Sea (MARA 5589) 2026-02-01
Producing Techno-Optimism: The Alternative Energy Transition as Spectacle ,
51st annual meeting of the Mid-south Sociological Association 2025-10-01
Water, Justice, and Community on the Waccamaw River ,
Winyah Rivers Alliance Community Event 2025-06-01
Is this the cheerful hurley-burley?: A visual exploration of mixed-use spaces in Southeast, North Carolina ,
2025 North Carolina Sociological Association Annual Conference 2025-02-01
"Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home's intrinsic beauty": NIMBYism, environmental privilege, and the politics of offshore wind energy ,
Politics of the Sea (MARA 5589) 2025-01-01
Critical Steps for Just Transition ,
Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center Webinar 2024-11-20
Environmental Volunteering as a Gateway to Environmental Justice Frameworks? An exploratory case study of volunteer water monitors in Coastal Carolina ,
50th annual meeting of the Mid-south Sociological Association 2024-10-17
Picturing Sociology: Using Photography as a Classroom Tool ,
2024 North Carolina Sociological Association Annual Conference 2024-03-22
Using collaborative, interdisciplinary service-learning to investigate pollution and environmental justice ,
2024 Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference 2024-02-14
The Book Writing Process ,
49th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association 2023-10-12
Toward Environmental Justice ,
Catalyst Program 2023-09-08
Yes, in Their Backyard: Considering the case of North Carolina’s emerging offshore wind industry ,
Ocean Nexus Center 2023-07-11
Sociology, Environmental Justice, and Community Partnerships ,
REACH Fellowship Program 2023-06-19
Maintaining Order’: Armed racial justice counter-protest and the maintenance of white supremacy ,
Sociology Club, University of North Carolina at Pembroke 2023-04-12
Teaching Racial Reckoning ,
2023 Social Justice Symposium 2023-04-03
Making its Way: History, highlights, and current directions of the Mid-South Sociological Association ,
2023 Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society 2023-03-30
Poverty Tourism at Home and Abroad ,
Global Inequalities (SOC 160) 2022-11-16
Just Transition or Just Another Transition? Considering the case of North Carolina’s emerging offshore wind industry ,
48th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association 2022-10-14
Doing Sociology ,
REACH Fellowship Program 2022-06-29
The Skills You Didn’t Know You Had ,
Keynote address to the 2022 Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center Symposium 2022-04-20
Yes, in Their Back Yard: Making Sense of Local Wind Politics ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2022-04-13
Racial Justice Movements, Culture, and Change: Reflecting on cultural outcomes and ideological changes in the U.S. ,
2022 North Carolina Sociological Association Annual Conference 2022-04-01
The Limits of Charity: Color-blindness and the reproduction of race- and class-based stigma ,
47th annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association 2021-10-21
Reimagining Civic Engagement ,
Leadership Workshop Series, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Office for Campus Engagement and Leadership 2021-09-28
Navigating Graduate School ,
REACH Fellowship Program 2021-07-15
Graduate School as a First-Generation College Graduate ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2021-03-21
Touring Homelessness: Volunteer exploration of the homeless “Other” and marginal urban space ,
Department of Sociology Workshop Series 2019-09-12
Touring Homelessness: Understanding race and ideology among grassroots homeless service organizations ,
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2019-08-11
Volunteering as Racial Meaning Making ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2019-04-18
A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting public support for hydraulic fracturing ,
Department of Sociology Workshop Series 2019-02-13
Unrepresentative Democracy: Civic engagement in 26 Knight Foundation communities ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2018-03-23
The Fracking Treadmill: Analyzing the pragmatic logic of concern for the climate change and hydraulic fracturing in the United States ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2018-03-22
Racial Differences in Perception of Personal Volunteer Benefits: A case study of ‘court navigators’ in New York City ,
Amber Buckley-Shaklee Graduate Student Conference in Sociology 2017-04-15
Exotic Places, White Spaces: Construction of exclusionary white volunteer spaces in the Global South ,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society 2017-04-02
Exotic Places, White Spaces: An in-depth interview study of white volunteers in Honduras ,
Annual Graduate Student Conference 2016-04-16
Research
Research Overview
Race and racism, environmental sociology, urban sociology, and community and civic engagement, whiteness, energy development, just transition, volunteering, homelessness
Teaching
Teaching Overview
Introduction to Sociology, Community and Urban Sociology, Racial and Ethnic Group Relations, Environmental Sociology, Social Stratification
