Peter D. Ore
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Queens College, CUNY
I study how knowledge is made useful — or not. The history of environmental bureaucracy and social science is full of unexpected continuities and discontinuities. I think through them in my scholarship and through public service.
In my research, I examine two major cases of public knowledge in the 20th century United States, sociology and the Federal air pollution control technocracy. My book on the origins of air pollution control is under advance contract in the Middle Range series with Columbia University Press.
My students and I at the Queens Data Lab apply findings from my research to help local public organizations make sense of their work. If you are a public organization in Queens NYC with data lying around, get in touch.
Selected publications
- Ore, Peter D., and Daniel A. Menchik. 2026. "The Global Chicago School: Cases and Currents." The American Sociologist. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-026-09683-9
- Ore, Peter D. 2025. "The Political Economy of Water Pollution." in An Introduction to Contemporary Social Epidemiology: Definition and Theory, edited by Terrence Hill, Tarani Chandola, and Ginny Garcia-Alexander.
- Ore, Peter. 2024. "Symbolic Structures: New Entries in the Sociology of Housing." Contemporary Sociology.
- Diaz, Christina J. and Peter D. Ore. 2022. Landscapes of Appropriation and Assimilation: the Impact of Immigrant-Origin Populations on U.S. Cuisine." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(5): 1152-1176.
- Ore, Peter and Andrew Davis. 2020. "The Frailty of the Strong Executive." Fast Capitalism 17(1): 73-86.
- Hill, Terrence, Andrew Jorgenson, Peter Ore, Kelly Balistreri, and Brett Clark. 2019. "Air Quality and Life Expectancy in the United States: An Analysis of the Moderating Effect of Income Inequality." Social Science & Medicine – Population Health. 7: 1-7.
Contact
peter DOT ore AT qc DOT cuny DOT edu
Queens Data Lab: orepost2024 AT gmail DOT com
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