Portrait of Dr. Michelle Lynn Edwards

Dr. Michelle Lynn Edwards

  • Associate Professor at Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Edwards, M. L. (2025). NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration. Review of Policy Research. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ropr.70045

2024

  • Edwards, M. L. (2024). Resisting settler colonialism: comments from tribes on NEPA ‘modernization.’ Environmental Sociology, 11(3), 324–338. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2427466
  • Tritsch, K., Mix, K. D., Edwards, M., & Pina, M. (2024). Perceptions of Texas Small-Scale Producers on Success, Challenges, and the Future of Agriculture. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 39(1).

2023

  • Edwards, M. L., & Edwards, H. (2023). Prison-based Environmental Training Programs: Who Is Being Transformed? Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2190523

2022

  • Edwards, M. L., & Caden, Z. (2022). Examining Science Communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” Approach. Public Understanding of Science, 31(4), 473–488.
  • Tritsch, K., Mix, K., Edwards, M. L., & Piña Jr., M. (2022). Evaluating Success Factors and Challenges Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers: A Texas Case Study. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 37(3). https://doi.org/https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol37/iss3/3

2021

  • Tritsch, K., Mix, K., Edwards, M. L., & Piña Jr., M. (2021). What Makes a Small Farm Successful? A Review of Success Factors, Needs, and Challenges. Journal of Extension, 59(2). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.59.02.18
  • Edwards, M. L., Luna, B., & Edwards, H. (2021). Environmental Injustices in Immigrant Detention: How Absences Are Embedded in the NEPA Process. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(2), 429–450. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620909734

2019

  • Edwards, M. L. (2019). Uncertainty and Trustworthiness in Discussions of Fracking: Exploring the Views of Academic Scientists and Local Governmental Representatives. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6, 1113–1121.
  • Edwards, M. L. (2019). Nebraska Residents’ Perceptions of Drought Risk and Adaptive Capacity to Drought. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 34(1).

2018

  • Edwards, M. L. (2018). “Just Report the Science”: How Scientists Frame Their Engagement in Contested Debates over Fracking in the Barnett Shale. Energy Research & Social Science, 45, 67–74.
  • Edwards, M. L. (2018). Public Perceptions of Energy Policies: Predicting Support, Opposition, and Nonsubstantive Responses. Energy Policy, 117, 348–357.

2017

  • Edwards, M. L. (2017). Review. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations.

2016

  • Dillman, D. A., & Edwards, M. L. (2016). Designing a Mixed-Mode Survey. In The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology (pp. 255–268). Thousand Oaks, California, United States: Sage Publications.
  • Edwards, M. L. (2016). A Sociohistorical Examination of George Herbert Mead’s Approach to Science Education. Public Understanding of Science, 25(5), 531–542.
  • Edwards, M. L. (2016). Public Perceptions of the Legitimacy of Water Governance Organizations in Nebraska and Washington. Society & Natural Resources, 29(3), 265–283.

2014

  • Frickel, S., & Edwards, M. L. (2014). Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment. In Powerless Science? The Making of the Toxic World in the Twentieth Century (pp. 215–233). Oxford and New York, United States: Berghahn Books.
  • Edwards, M. L., Dillman, D. A., & Smyth, J. D. (2014). An Experimental Test of the Effects of Survey Sponsorship on Internet and Mail Survey Response. Public Opinion Quarterly, 78(3), 734–750.

2013

  • Kmec, J., & Edwards, M. L. (2013). Human Resources. In Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia (pp. 393–396). Thousand Oaks, California, United States: SAGE Publications.

2012

  • Messer, B. L., Edwards, M. L., & Dillman, D. A. (2012). Determinants of Item-Nonresponse to Web and Mail Respondents in Three Address-Based Mixed-Mode Surveys of the General Public. Survey Practice, 5(2).

2011

  • Edwards, M. L. (2011). “Our People Are Still Resisting”: Farmworker Community Organizing and the Texas Agricultural System. Organization & Environment, 24(2), 175–191.

2010

  • Edwards, M. L. (2010). Gender, Social Disorganization Theory, and the Locations of Sexually-Oriented Businesses. Deviant Behavior, 31(2), 135–158.