Dorceta Taylor

Dorceta E. Taylor
Born	Dorceta E. Taylor 1957 (age 66–67) Jamaica
Occupation(s)	Environmental sociologist and historian
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University, Northeastern Illinois University
Academic work
Institutions	Yale School of the Environment,[1] University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
Main interests	conservation, diversity in environmental organizations, environmental justice, and environmental racism
Notable works	People and the Environment in American Cities, 1600s-1900s, Toxic Communities, "The Rise of the American Conservation Movement"
Notable ideas	environmental privilege[2]

Dorceta E. Taylor is an American environmental sociologist known for her work on both environmental justice and racism in the environmental movement. She is the senior associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Yale School of the Environment, as well as a professor of environmental justice.^[1] Prior to this, she was the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Michigan's School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), where she also served as the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice.^[3] Taylor's research has ranged over environmental history, environmental justice, environmental policy, leisure and recreation, gender and development, urban affairs, race relations, collective action and social movements, green jobs, diversity in the environmental field, food insecurity, and urban agriculture.

A scholar of environmental justice, Taylor's work has garnered numerous awards.^[3] Her 2009 book, The Environment and the People in American Cities: 1600s-1900s, was the first history of environmental injustice in America. Her 2014 book Toxic Communities has been hailed as a "standard-bearer" for environmental justice scholarship.^[4] Her book, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement is a "sweeping social history" that challenges narrative of environmental history and inspires readers to "reconsider nearly everything".^[5]