R. Scott FREY is a Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has taught previously at George Washington University and Kansas State University, and he has held chair positions at the University of North Florida and the University of Tennessee. He has also held appointments at Argonne National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation. His areas of interest are environmental sociology, development and globalization, and comparative/historical sociology. He is currently preparing a book (under contract with Routledge) on the globalization of health, safety, and environmental risks. He has contributed chapters to recent books on environmental issues and has published in numerous periodicals, including the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and Social Forces. He has received research funding from the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of World Systems Research and serves on the editorial boards of Human Ecology Review and Sociological Inquiry.