Francis O. Adeola
Professor
Ph.D. Mississippi State

fadeola@uno.edu

Dr. Adeola's research interests include local and cross-national environmental justice issues, socioeconomic development, poverty, comparative cross-national studies, environmental health, human rights issues, and natural and technological disasters. Dr. Adeola has published articles in several peer-reviewed scientific journals including American Behavioral Scientists, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Community Development Society, Environment and Behavior, Human Ecology Review, Rural Sociology, Society and Natural Resources, and Sociological Spectrum. He is currently working on the effects of natural disaster on human health and the problem of toxic waste in the United States.

Dr. Adeola provides academic instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the following courses: introductory sociology, environment and society, social change, sociology of the environment, social research methods, sociology of development, and social futurology. He has taught social statistics, population and human ecology, and social problems on regular basis as well. Dr. Adeola is a member of the Faculty Initiative for Technology in Teaching (FITT) at UNO.