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SHARON J. RIDGEWAY
Ph.D., Northern
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Department of Political Science 314 South Sterling
(337) 482-6548
Email: sridgeway@louisiana.edu
FAX (337) 482-6170
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Public Policy) 1996
Northern
MPA (Public Administration) 1992
Northern
BA (Political Science) 1990 University of Arizona
II. DISSERTATION
Environmental Public
Policy Analysis: A Critical Examination
of the Mechanistic Paradigm of the Human/Nature Relationship
III. FIELDS OF
INTEREST
Environmental Policy Environmental Ethics
Feminist Theory Public Administration
Democratic Theory
IV. TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor –
Politics and Media – Spring 2003-2009.
Environmental Policy – Fall 1996-Fall 2008.
Public Administration – Fall 1996-Fall 2008.
Bureaucratic Politics – Spring 1998-Spring 2008.
Director of the Public Administration Internship Program – Spring
1997 -Spring 2008.
Director of Internships in the
of Congressman Boustany.
Senator David Vitter and offices in Lafayette Consolidated
Government.
American Government – Fall 1996-Spring 2001, Spring 2002-Fall
2008
Humanities 101 – Spring 2000, Fall 2001 - Spring 2002.
Democratic Theory and Civil Society – Summer 1999.
Democracy and Service Learning – Spring 1997, Spring 1998.
Special AmeriCorps Classes.
Honors American Government – Fall 1996.
Instructor –
Decline of the Welfare State – Spring 1996
American Government – Fall 1995, Spring 1996
Environmental Policy – Fall 1995
Public Administration – Fall 1995
Instructor – Northern
Public Administration – Spring 1995, Fall 1994, Fall 1993
State and Local Politics – Fall 1994
American Politics – Spring 1994
V. ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE
Planner for Solid Waste Department, City of
Community Development Planner, City of Williams, 1990-92
Theater & Film Production,
VI. HONORS,
AWARDS, AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Awarded
2001 Summer Research Award,
Section Head for Environmental Policy and Natural Resources 1999-2002, Western
Social Science Association.
Endowment for the Humanities 2000 Summer Stipend, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Development of an Action-Guiding Environmental Ethic”
Awarded 1998 Summer Research Award,
Awarded Teaching Assistantships, NAU, 1994-1995
Awarded a Graduate Assistantship, NAU, 1993
Awarded a MPA Internship from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 1990-1992.
Phi Kappa Phi,
Phi Kappa Phi,
Western Social Science Association Member 1995-2002.
Western Political Science Association Member 1999-2000.
VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Published
“Globalization from the Subsistence Perspective” Peace Review. (19.3) 2007.
“Free Market Economics or Environmental Racism?” in Managing Environmental
Policy: A Case Book, Robert P. Watson, Dwight C.
“Federal Indian Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence”
Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Peter Jacques, Sharon Ridgeway and Rick Witmar, the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation vol 18(2) fall 2003.
“Population-Conflict Models: Blaming the Poor for Poverty” Social Science Journal,
vol. 4 2002, Sharon Ridgeway and Peter Jacques.
“Sexual Harassment of Harmless Teasing?” in Public Administration: Cases in
Managerial
Role-Playing, Robert P. Watson, ed. (
Review of Silent spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis by Thomas D. Beamish
in Social Science Journal Vol. 40, No. 3, 2003.
Review of Listening to the Sea in Social Science Journal Vol. 37, No. 3, 2000.
B. Conference Papers and Acitivities
“Ethical Critique of Environmental Skepticism” paper presented at the Western Social
Science Association annual conference, 2005.
Western Social Science Association, Section Head, Environmental Policy and Renewable
Resources, 2000-2002.
“Toward a Metaphysics of Emotion for Environmental Moral Reasoning” paper
presented at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference April 2002.
“An Ecofeminist Perspective on Violence” paper presented at the Western Social Science
Association Annual Conference April 2001.
“Developing an Action-Guiding Environmental Ethic: The Importance of a Sense of
Place” paper
presented at the Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting 2000,
“The Ontology of Environmental Ethics: Are We Merely Tourists in the World?” paper
presented at the Western Political
Science Association Annual Meeting 1999,
“A Critique of Instrumental Rationality for Environmental Policy” paper presented at the
Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting Spring 1999, Panel Chair.
“Reevaluating Methodological Assumptions for environmental Policy Analysis,” paper
presented at the Southwest Social
Science Association, March 1997,
“Cost/Benefit Analysis for Management of Natural Resources,” paper presented at the
Western Social Science Association
Annual Conference, April 26-29, 1995,
“The Historical Creation of Natural Resources,” a paper presented at the Graduate
Student Interdisciplinary Symposium, NAU, 1994.
Panel Chair, 1993 Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Symposium, NAU, “Images of the
Environment”.
Advisor, College Democrats 1999-2007.
Advisor, Vermillion Women’s Honor Society 2000-2002.
Head of the Department’s Library Committee 2000-2007.
Member, ULL Parking and Transit Committee 2000-2002.
Member, Advisory Committee on Environmental & Sustainable Resources, Fall 1999-
2002.
Chair, Student Honors Retention and Recruitment Committee, Department of Political
Science, USL, 1998-2000. Renamed Scholarship and Student Activities 2000-2007.
Member, Alumni Committee, Department of Political Science, USL, 1998-1999.
Member, Service Learning Council, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997-2001.
Member of
Member, Cade Farm Task Force, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997-2000.
Coeditor, Service-Learning Forum,
Member, USL task force to develop an interdisciplinary environmental Ph.D., University
of