Dr. Jamie Sommer

Jamie M. Sommer (Ph.D., 2018, State University of New York at Stony Brook) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Her research uses mixed methods to examine how institutional factors impact global inequality in environment and development outcomes. Broadly, she aims to highlight the complex ways that institutions, social structures, and social norms are historically biased toward groups with power and privilege derived from cycles of wealth and poverty. Jamie is dedicated to throwing light on how institutions of power and norms and ideology perpetuate and reify social hierarchies and existing inequalities.