Major Eason
PhD Student in Sociology
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Major Eason is a PhD student in Sociology whose research interest revolve around environmental justice and sustainable development. These interests emerge from a pressing need to create solutions that can work to aid communities facing environmental racism at the local level. Namely, he analyzes how disparities in toxic facility placement manifest at the ground level. Through mutli-level and multi-method scholarship, he broadly examines the question, How is environmental racism manifested differently across place?