Karen Bryant

Sociology: MA student interested in socioecological systems, the sociology of human rights, and social movements.

Karen is an MA student in sociology with a background in natural sciences, law, and environmental science and policy. Her master's thesis research is focused on the data center resistance of a particular community. Her broader interests include the sociology of human rights, especially the human right to a healthy environment, environmental human rights defenders, indigenous rights, self-determination and right to free, prior, and informed consent; Marx; conflict theory; settler colonial theory; epistemologies of the “South”; political sociology; sociology of conflict, violence, emancipation, peace; post-conflict transitional justice; environmental sociology; humans-in-nature; activism and social movements, especially transnational human rights and rights of nature movements; Third sector; Social networks; Systems thinking, especially regenerative socioecological systems, transformation, re-localization of economies, alternative futures; Sociological methods: quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and participatory research methods; Anthropology: biological, ecological, cultural, and political.

Education

LL.M. Intellectual Property - George Mason University School of Law

J.D. - George Mason University School of Law

M.S. Geosciences - Pennsylvania State University

B.S. Geology - George Mason University

B.S. Biology - George Mason University