Haisu Huang

Bio:

​My research advances environmental justice scholarship by examining how climate hazards, environmental policy, and energy transitions distribute risks and resources unevenly—and how communities understand, contest, and navigate these inequalities in everyday life. Using qualitative and ethnographic methods, I connect macro-level political-economic transformations, including disaster, deindustrialization, and decarbonization, to lived experiences of housing insecurity, health risk, and belonging. Across my projects, I ask: Who is protected, who is exposed, and who gets a say when environments are transformed? My goal is to produce rigorous sociological research that helps communities and institutions respond to climate disruption in more equitable ways, while training students to analyze environmental inequality and imagine and build more just futures.   

Select Works:

Peer Reviewed Articles

“Roots or Recreation: Staying in Place after a Wildfire Disaster.” Environmental Sociology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2590859 

“ ‘Long-Term Temporary’ Disaster Recovery Housing: Living in RVs Post-Wildfire.” Rural Sociology 90(3):e70019. doi:10.1111/ruso.70019.

“Workers’ Acquiescence to Air Pollution: A Qualitative Study of Coal Miners in China.” Society & Natural Resources 36(9):1028–44. doi:10.1080/08941920.2021.1934929.