Faculty Profiles

Dr. Michelle Lynn Edwards

Department Representative, Sustainability Council. August 2025 - Present.
Chair, Research and Teaching Review. August 2025 - Present.
Member, Student Learning Outcomes Sub-Committee. August 2022 - Present.
Member, Personnel Committee. September 2021 - Present.
Volunteer, It's My Park Day Austin with Austin Parks Foundation. August 2018 - Present.

Reviewer / Referee, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. February 2025 - 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Public Understanding of Science. July 2022 - 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Public Opinion Quarterly. 2015 - 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Environmental Justice. March 2025 - July 2025.
Co-Chair, Research and Teaching Review. January 2025 - July 2025.
Volunteer, Parent Teacher Association (PTA) for Cowan Elementary. August 2024 - May 2025.
Faculty reader, TXSTUR Undergraduate Research Journal. April 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Berghahn Books. February 2025.

Member, Research and Teaching Review. August 2022 - December 2024.
Member, Anti-Racist Committee. August 2021 - December 2024.
Mentor, American Sociology Association Section on Environmental Sociology Mentorship Program. August 2021 - December 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Big Data & Society. March 2023 - September 2024.
External Reviewer for Tenure & Promotion Review, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Utah State University. August 2024.
Session Presider, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 12, 2024.
Member, College Research Enhancement Program (REP) Committee. August 2022 - July 2024.
Member, Liberal Arts Budget, Planning and Curriculum Committee/Liberal Arts Faculty Advisory Council. August 2021 - July 2024.

Reviewer / Referee, Science Communication. 2020 - 2023.
Organizer, District 5 for Black Lives. July 2020 - 2023.
Member, Search Committee for an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track). May 2023 - December 2023.
Officer, Parent Teacher Association (PTA) for Cowan Elementary. August 2023 - May 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, American Journal of Public Health. March 2023 - May 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, Texas Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources. February 2023 - March 2023.

Officer, Section on Environmental Sociology (American Sociological Association). August 2020 - 2022.
Member, Faculty Review Committee. November 2021 - November 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, Sociological Inquiry. August 2022.
Chair, Introduction to Sociology Assessment Committee. August 2020 - August 2022.
Session Presider, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 6, 2022.
Coordinator / Organizer, Teaching Panel: Teaching Environmental Sociology in a Time of Radical Flux (American Sociological Association). April 25, 2022.

Member, Undoing White Supremacy Austin. July 2020 - 2021.
Reviewer / Referee, Science, Technology, & Human Values. 2015 - 2021.
Member, Student Learning Outcomes Sub-Committee. August 2020 - August 2021.
Member, Research and Teaching Review Session Committee. August 2018 - August 2021.
Session Moderator, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 7, 2021.
Volunteer, Austin Police Department Training Academy. April 2021 - July 2021.

Reviewer / Referee, Energy Policy. 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Great Lakes Research. 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, Rural Sociology. 2017 - 2020.
Member, Presidential Award Nominations Committee. November 2019 - October 2020.
Member, Introduction to Sociology Assessment Committee. August 2018 - August 2020.
Volunteer, Austin Justice Coalition. July 2020.

Member, (TCU) Search Committee for Lecturer Position. 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Energy Research & Social Science Journal. 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Crime & Delinquency. 2018.
Affiliated Faculty, (TCU) Institute for Environmental Studies. 2017 - 2018.
Judge, (TCU) Annual AddRan Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship and Creativity. 2016 - 2018.
Member, (TCU) Publicity, Programming, and Outreach Committee for the Interdisciplinary Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. 2016 - 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Community Practice. 2016 - 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Organization & Environment. 2012 - 2018.
Attendee / Participant, "Affirmative Action: Best Practices" Panelist at the Texas Diversity & Leadership Conference. April 12, 2018.

Faculty Sponsor of a Poster Session, (TCU) 12th Annual AddRan Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship and Creativity. 2017.
Member, (TCU) Search Committee for Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position. 2017.
Session Moderator, American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting. 2017.
Judge, (TCU) Porterfield Award. 2014 - 2017.
Reviewer / Referee, Social Problems. 2013 - 2017.

Member, (TCU) Search Policy Committee. 2016.
Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 2016.
Session Chair, Southern Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting. 2016.
Session Chair, International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Biennial Conference. 2016.
Session Moderator, American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting. 2016.
Volunteer, Southern Association for Public Opinion Research (SAPOR). 2016.
Chair, (TCU) Career Fair/Workshop Committee. 2015 - 2016.
Member, (TCU) University Evaluation Committee. 2014 - 2016.

Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Official Statistics. 2014.
Judge, Visual Sociology Competition at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting. 2014.

Member, (TCU) Search Committee for Adjunct Professor Positions (2). 2013.
Co-organizer, Environment, Agriculture, Resources, Technology and Society (EARThS) Conference. April 22, 2013.