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Dr. Bolin's academic background is interdisciplinary in sociology and geography with a focus on socioenvironmental transformations. He received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder (Ph.D., 1976). His primary graduate training was in environmental sociology, hazards geography, urban geography and social theory. Most of his funded research since graduate school has focused on environmental issues, including hazards, disasters and the dynamics of social inequality and marginalization in the production of environmental inequality. Bolin spent the bulk of his career, prior to coming to Arizona State University, at New Mexico State University, where he progressed through the ranks in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He served as chair of that department for four years in the 1990s and moved to Arizona State University in January 1998, joining the Department of Sociology. In fall 2004, Bolin transferred to the Department of Anthropology to better pursue his environmental research and teaching agenda in a more supportive and congenial departmental setting. Bolin is the director of the doctoral program in environmental social science.