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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

J. Craig Jenkins is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Political Science and International Relations, and Soil Science.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics related to climate change impacts on agriculture, disaster management and resilience, climate change adaptation and migration, political conflict and governance, social media and politics, agricultural risk and resilience, and insurance and financial risk management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jenkins include:

  • Piloting a Weather-Index-Based Crop Insurance System in Bangladesh: Understanding the Challenges of Financial Instruments for Tackling Climate Risks (2021), published in Sustainability
  • Measuring Household Resilience to Cyclone Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh (2021), published in Climate
  • Floating gardening in coastal Bangladesh: Evidence of sustainable farming for food security under climate change (2020), published in Journal of Agriculture Food and Environment
  • Human capital as a turnkey resource in resilience to cyclones and storm surges: Empirical evidence from coastal Bangladesh (2023), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SDRQuerier: A Visual Querying Framework for Cross-National Survey Data Recycling (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Jenkins has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Abdullah Al-Maruf, Boris Braun, Amelie Bernzen, Olga Li, and Przemek Powałko.

The primary publication venues for Jenkins include:

  • American Behavioral Scientist
  • Sustainability
  • Climate
  • Journal of Agriculture Food and Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, with notable emphasis on:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management

In 2009, Jenkins was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements

    J. Craig Jenkins

  • Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972).

    J. Craig Jenkins;Charles Perrow

  • Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002–2010

    Robert J. Brulle;Jason Carmichael;J. Craig Jenkins

  • Channeling Black Insurgency: Elite Patronage and Professional Social Movement Organizations in the Development of the Black Movement.

    J. Craig Jenkins;Craig M. Eckert

  • Deforestation and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Cross-National Investigation of Intervening Mechanisms *

    Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez;Edward M. Crenshaw;J. Craig Jenkins

  • The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s

    J. Craig Jenkins

  • The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements

    J. Craig Jenkins;Bert Klandermans

  • Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA): An Event Typology for Automated Events Data Development

    Doug Bond;Joe Bond;Churl Oh;J. Craig Jenkins

  • Political Opportunities and African‐American Protest, 1948–19971

    J. Craig Jenkins;David Jacobs;Jon Agnone

  • Food security in less developed countries 1970 to 1990.

    J. Craig Jenkins;Stephen J. Scanlan

  • Social Movements, Political Representation, and the State: An Agenda and Comparative Framework

    J. Craig Jenkins

  • La teoría de la movilización de recursos y el estudio de los movimientos sociales

    J. Craig Jenkins

  • Ideologies of Violence: The Social Origins of Islamist and Leftist Transnational Terrorism

    Kristopher K. Robison;Edward M. Crenshaw;J. Craig Jenkins

  • Mapping Mass Political Conflict and Civil Society: Issues and Prospects for the Automated Development of Event Data

    Doug Bond;J. Craig Jenkins;Charles L. Taylor;Kurt Schock

  • The Political Origins of African Military Coups: Ethnic Competition, Military Centrality, and the Struggle over the Postcolonial State

    J. Craig Jenkins;Augustine J. Kposowa

  • Radical Transformation of Organizational Goals

    J. Craig Jenkins

  • The Structural Sources of Military Coups in Postcolonial Africa, 1957-1984

    Augustine J. Kposowa;J. Craig Jenkins

  • Explaining Military Coups D'État: Black Africa, 1957-1984

    J. Craig Jenkins;Augustine J. Kposowa

  • Global Structures and Political Processes in the Study of Domestic Political Conflict

    J. Craig Jenkins;Kurt Schock

  • Social Protest, Hegemonic Competition and Social Reform: The Political Origins of the American Welfare State

    J. Craig Jenkins;Barbara G. Brents

  • Stirring the Masses: Indigenous Roots of the Civil Rights Movement@@@The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change.

    J. Craig Jenkins;Aldon Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

David Jacobs
David Jacobs The Ohio State University
Bert Klandermans
Bert Klandermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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