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Dr. Skye Niles

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies

Wilkinson College Other Programs, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Environmental Science, Schmid College of Science and Technology

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Email: niles@chapman.edu

Education:: University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts
University of Colorado at Boulder, Master of Arts
University of Colorado at Boulder, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Niles, Skye. 2025. “Incarceration and environmental privilege: Prison labor in the ‘playground of the nation.’” Environmental Sociology, 1–12.; Ryder, Stacia, Abby Cunniff, and Skye Niles. 2024. “Environmental Inequality.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Edited by Christine Overdevest. Edward Elgar Publishing.; Niles, Skye, Shawhin Roudbari, and Santina Contreras. 2023. “Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Reformulation of Racial Hierarchies in International Development.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 10(2), 249-263.; Glade, Sara, Skye Niles, Shawhin Roudbari, Phaedra Pezzullo, Shideh Dashti, Abbie Liel, and Shelly Miller. 2022. “Disaster Resilience and Sustainability of Incarceration Infrastructures: A Review of the Literature.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80: 1-16.; Niles, Skye. 2022. “Colorblind Racism and Market-Based Development.” Sociology of Development, 8(2): 139–161.; Contreras, Santina and Skye Niles. 2022. “Building Resilience through Informal Networks and Community Knowledge Sharing: Post-disaster Health Service Delivery after Hurricane Maria.” Environmental Hazards, 21(5): 433-452.