Rate My Professor Diane Sicotte

Sicotte is the author of the book From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region (Rutgers University Press, 2016). Notable publications include “Energy Transition: Necessary, Welcome or Dreaded? Unionized U.S. Energy Workers Speak” in Energy Research & Social Science (2022, with Kelly Joyce and Arielle Hesse); “From Cheap Ethane to a Plastic Planet: Regulating an Industrial Global Production Network” in Energy Research & Social Science (2020); “Solving the Plastics Problem: Moving the U.S. from Recycling to Reduction” in Society and Natural Resources (2021, with Jessica Seamon); and “Diversity and Intersectionality among Environmentally Burdened Communities in Philadelphia MSA, USA” in Urban Studies (2014). In 2018, she and co-principal investigator Kelly Joyce received a National Science Foundation grant (Award #1827464) to examine energy preferences among U.S. labor unions and their members in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Sicotte has held numerous committee roles at Drexel, including chair of the Sociology Undergraduate Committee (2016–2019), member of the CoAS Tenure and Promotion Committee (2021–present), and various hiring committees. She has served as a reviewer for over 30 journals, organized academic sessions on environmental injustice, and provided external tenure reviews.