Haisu Huang

Bio:

Haisu Huang (she/they) is a community-engaged environmental sociologist whose research advances environmental justice scholarship by examining how policies responding to climate disasters and energy transitions unevenly redistribute risks and resources, and how marginalized communities experience, navigate, and contest these injustices in everyday life. Huang works closely with a rural community affected by wildfire in Oregon and a coal mining community undergoing energy transition in China. Drawing primarily on ethnographic methods, Huang seeks to produce rigorous, community-engaged research that helps communities and institutions respond to climate disruption in more equitable ways. As an educator, Huang is committed to empowering students to critically examine environmental inequalities 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.