Scholars
Matthew Jerome Schneider
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Based in
United States
North America
Matthew Jerome Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and an Affiliate Faculty Member with the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His work is situated in the areas of environmental sociology, civic engagement, and race and racism. Specifically, Schneider’s work focuses on environmental volunteering and activism and the alternative energy transition. He earned his B.S. in Sociology and History from Illinois College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate Justice Fossil fuels Renewable energyHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Sebastian Boute and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2025. “Beyond Alternative Energy Markets without Morals: Solar Energy and (In)Equity in Robeson County, NC, USA.” Geo: Geography and Environment 12: 2: 1-9.
Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2025. “Social Science for a Just Transition.” Sustainability and Climate Change 18: 4: 247-266.
Matthew Jerome Schneider, Tessa Newson, and Cara Schildtknecht. 2025. “‘What’s right for the environment is right in every other way’: Environmental Volunteering as a Gateway to Environmental Justice Frameworks.” Sociological Spectrum. 45: 6: 344-357.
Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2025. “‘Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home’s intrinsic beauty’: NIMBYism, environmental privilege, and offshore wind energy in North Carolina, USA.” Coastal Studies and Society 4: 1: 54-83.
Yoshi Ota, Gerald Singh, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Eliana Ritts, Matthew J. Schneider, Mia Strand, and Wilf Swartz. 2024. “An Ocean Declaration to Move from Observation to Action.” npj Ocean Sustainability 3: 1: 1-3.
Brian F. O’Neill, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Alejandro Garcia Lozano. 2024. “Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Approach to Ocean Equity.” Environmental Justice 18: 2: 90-99.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. “Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’ – On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains.” Human Geography. 15: 3: 311-316.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2021. “Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal.” The Society Pages, July 21.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2021. “A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting public support for hydraulic fracturing.” The Sociological Quarterly 62: 3: 439-463.
Brian F. O’Neill, Mark Nepf, and Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2024. “Eight Recommended Readings in Critical Environmental Justice.” Fathom, March 18.
Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2024. “Factory Farms, Environmental Injustice, and Industrial Extraction in Coastal North Carolina.” Fathom, February 21.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew J. Schneider. 2021. “Putting Sociology to Use: Reframing fracking as a public health risk.” Pp. 120-121. In Health Inequalities: A Social Science Approach by M. Reiter and A. Reiter. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2022. “Critiquing Techno-optimism and the Future of Renewables in Shaun Golding’s Electric Mountains.” Sociation 21: 2: 52-54.
Matthew Jerome Schneider. Forthcoming. “‘I Don’t Know What’s Racist:’ White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-Conscious Volunteers.” Qualitative Sociology.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider, (2022). “Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’ – On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains.” Human Geography.
Musa Jalal and Matthew Jerome Schneider, (2022). “Bottom-Up Violence Work: Exploring the Case of Armed Racial Justice Counter-Protest.” The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships, edited by Tyler Ross Flockhart et al., IGI Global, pp. 189–205.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider, (2021). “Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal.” The Society Pages, July 21.
Brian F. O’Neill and Matthew Jerome Schneider, (2021). “A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing.” The Sociological Quarterly 62: 3: 439-463.
Matthew Jerome Schneider, (2018). “Exotic Place, White Space: Racialized Volunteer Spaces in Honduras.” Sociological Forum 33: 3: 690-711.
Reviews and Brief
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Brian O’Neill, Matthew Schneider, Corey Ridings, Kurt Ellison, M. Nasir Tighsazzadeh, Reuben Martinez, Shana Hirsch, William Kammin, Leah Fusco, Mark Nepf. 2024. Research Brief on Just Transition (Ocean Nexus Group). Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center.
Matthew Jerome Schneider and Brian F. O’Neill. 2024. “Book Review: A climate agenda for system change: from theory to social transformation.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 35(3): 128-130.
Appearances
Matthew Jerome Schneider. 2022. Discussed research on homeless volunteer services on “Live on Main.” WLNC Scotland County Radio, January 24.