Michael Restivo

Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair
Bailey Hall 206A
(585) 245-6210
restivom@geneseo.edu

Michael Restivo has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2014. He is currently on sabbatical for Spring 2025

 

Michael Restivo

Office Hours

  • Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:30 - 1:30 pm

    (or by appointment)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Stony Brook University

  • M.A., Stony Brook University

Publications

  • Marion Harper, Jamie M. Sommer, Michael Restivo, and John M. Shandra. 2024. 鈥淚ndia, Repression, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange of Wood: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss鈥 Sociology of Development (forthcoming)

  • Jamie M. Sommer, Michael Restivo, and John M. Shandra. 2023.鈥淐orruption and Palm Oil in a Cross-National Perspective: How India Contributes to Forest Loss in Peripheral Nations.鈥 Journal of South Asian Development 1-29. doi:10.1177/09731741231182754

  • Jamie M. Sommer, Michael Restivo, and John M. Shandra. 2023. 鈥淐onnecting Bureaucratic Structures to Forest Loss.鈥 Sociology of Development 1-21. doi:10.1525/sod.2022.0018

Interests

  • Environmental sociology
  • Political ecology
  • Deforestation
  • Peer production

  • Wikipedia