faculty

Rachel Kulick, PhD

Associate Professor

Sociology / Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-999-8138

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Balsam Hall 9178

Education

2010

Brandeis University

PhD in Sociology

2003

Harvard Graduate School of Education

MEd in Education

1993

Union College

BS in Psychology

Teaching

Sustainability
Media Studies
Research Methods
Social Constructions of Whiteness

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

SOA 101: Introduction to Sociology

A survey of the fundamental principles of sociology and the basic factors conditioning social behavior.

SOA 316: Research Methods

Quantitative and qualitative approaches to research design and analysis, to develop student competency in conducting and critiquing social research. What we observe - and what we overlook - guides our understanding of social life. Fundamental to anthropology and sociology is systematic design, collection, and analysis of observations, which become data for developing new concepts and theories about the social world.

Research

Research activities

Community-based resilience and innovation in response to climate change
Community-based approaches to food justice and building local food systems

Research

Research interests

Climate Change
Food Systems
Social Movements
Participatory Action Research

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

Rachel Kulick (2025).
Biological corridors: Using participatory action research to map ecological and social relations in conservation work
Educational Action Research, 1-20.
Rachel Kulick, Anicca Cox, Fernanda Dias. (2023).
NorthEast Grows: Dismantling Narratives of Assumed Mutuality in a Community-Engaged Permaculture Partnership
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
Rachel Kulick (2019).
More time in the kitchen, less time on the streets: the micropolitics of cultivating an ethic of care in alternative food networks
Local Environment: An International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 24, 37-51.
Rachel Kulick (2014).
What do you see that I cannot? Peer Facilitations of Difference and Conflict in the Collective Production of Independent Youth Media
Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements, 6, 301-327.
Rachel Kulick (2014).
Making Media for Themselves: Strategic Dilemmas of Prefigurative Work in Independent Media Outlets
Social Movement Studies, 13