Janine Schipper

Janine Schipper is professor of sociology at Northern Arizona University. She was executive editor of Humanity and Society from 2011-2014, devoted to publishing work on social justice, scholar/activism, and public sociology. She is the author of Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008) and co-author of Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath for Teaching from the Heart (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Dr. Schipper’s research and published articles focus on Buddhist sociology and environmental sociology. She also published a seminal piece on Buddhist Sociology entitled “Toward a Buddhist Sociology: Its Theories, Methods and Possibilities“ (American Sociologist 2012), is a guest teacher at the Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community and facilitates workshops on compassion and mindfulness practices.