Expertise/Areas Of Interest:
David Pellow joined the UCSD faculty in the fall of 2002. An Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, Pellow is also the Director of the California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, a research initiative that supports creative interdisciplinary research, teaching and collaborations among faculty, students, and the public. His primary disciplines are sociology and ethnic studies, and his areas of research focus on environmental conflict in ethnic communities in the U.S., Africa, and Asia. Pellow can speak to issues concerning race/ethnicity, the environment, labor, social protest, immigration, free trade agreements, and globalization, as well as the global impacts of the high tech industry in Asia, Latin America and other regions of the world.

Topics Of Publication: :
Pellow has written on the social and environmental impacts of the U.S. and international waste management industries (garbage, pesticides, incineration, electronic computer wastes etc.) and the global social protest movement that has emerged to combat this issue. Pellow has also published material on environmental racism, occupational health hazards, economic globalization, international environmental protest movements, Silicon Valley industries, the global environment in high tech and social impacts, waste management industry, recycling industry, international movement of hazardous chemical wastes and international laws/conventions/treaties concerning environmental protection.

Background:
Pellow has sought to make the academic enterprise more relevant and more accessible to non-academic audiences. This is the greatest challenge of the social scientist and one of the greatest dilemmas facing public universities that are primarily focused on faculty research.