Matthew S. Carroll
Professor
Research Interests
- Human response to both the threat and reality of uncontrolled fire in the residential /forest interface as well as other social issues around controlled and uncontrolled wild-land fire.
Teaching /Professional Interests
Dr. Matt Carroll is a natural resource sociologist with an undergraduate degree and field experience in forest management. His research activity centers on the application of sociology to resource-based human communities, the sociology of wildland fire, the sociology of natural resource labor (including non-timber forest products), social assessment in a natural resources context and collaborative processes in natural resource decision-making.
His current specific research focus in the area of human response to both the threat and reality of uncontrolled fire in the residential/forest interface as well as other social issues around controlled and uncontrolled wild-land fire.
Matt teaches undergraduate courses in natural resources and society and natural resource policy and co-teaches a graduate course in issues and ethics in natural resources and the environment.
He served as Chair of the Society of American Forester's National Task Force on Community Stability and as a member of the Rural Sociological Society's National Working Group on Natural Resources and Rural Poverty. He also served as a sociological consultant to President Clinton's Ecosystem Assessment Team and more recently to Upper Columbia Basin Ecosystem Assessment Team.
Matt and Steve Hollenhorst (College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho) are Co-editors of the professional journal Society and Natural Resources.
Matt also served for two years as WSU's Faculty Representative to the State Legislature in Olympia.
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Forest and Natural Resources: Sociology and Policy, 1984
University of Washington - Seattle, WA - M.S. Forest and Natural Resources: Sociology and Public Administration, 1979
West Virginia University - Morgantown, WV - B.S. Forest Management, 1977
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
Department of
Natural Resource Sciences
Washington State University
183 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6410
(509) 335-2235
carroll@wsu.edu