Fernando Tormos-Aponte, PhD
- Assistant Professor
Fernando Tormos-Aponte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and a Kendall Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Purdue University and a BA from the Universidad de Puerto Rico—Río Piedras. Dr. Tormos-Aponte specializes in environmental and racial justice, intersectional solidarity, identity politics, social policy, and transnational politics. Dr. Tormos-Aponte’s research on social movements focuses on how social movements cope with internal divisions and gain political influence. Tormos-Aponte also investigates civil society claims about the uneven government response across communities. His work in this area examines the causes and consequences of government neglect of socially vulnerable communities during disaster recoveries.
Education & Training
- Purdue University, 2017
Representative Publications
Brown, Nadia, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, and Janelle Wong. “An Incomplete Recognition.” Forthcoming. American Political Science Review.
Painter, Mary Angelica, Sameer H. Shah, Gwendolyn C. Alexandre, Fariha Khalid, Wendy Prudencio, Musabber Ali Chisty, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Olga Wilhelmi. Forthcoming. “Hazards, Disasters, and the Social Vulnerability Index: A Multi-decadal Systematic Scoping Review.” Natural Hazards. Data.
Shah, Sameer, Cassandra R. O'Lenick, Alexandra Ramos-Valle, Jessica S. Wan, Scripps, Olga V. Wilhelmi, Kevin Ash, Catrin M. Edgeley, Maria J. Molina, Jessica Moulite, Carlo Chunga Pizarro, Kelsey Emard, Olivia Z. Cameron, James M. Done, Cleo Wölfle Hazard, Tom Hopson, Mikah Jones, Forrest Lacey, Michée Arnold Lachaud, Danica Lombardozzi, Michael Méndez, Rebecca E. Morss, Katharine Ricke, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, William R. Wieder, Christopher L. Williams. 2023. “Connecting Physical and Social Science Datasets: Challenges and Pathways Forward.” Environmental Research Communications.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Shariana Ferrer-Núñez, Carolina Hernández. 2023. “Intersectional Politics of the International Women’s Strike.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Phil Brown, Shannon Dosemagen, Dana R. Fisher, Scott Frickel, Norah MacKendrick, David S. Meyer, and John N. Parker. 2023. “Pathways for diversifying and enhancing science advocacy.” Science Advances 9 (eabq4899).
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Wendy Prudencio, Mary Angelica Painter, Brevin Franklin. 2022. “Clientelism and Corruption in the Wake of Disasters” CENTRO Journal 32 (2): 305-325.
Jared M. Wright, Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, S. Laurel Weldon, Dan Goldwasser, Rachel L. Einwohner, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Fernando Tormos-Aponte. 2022. “Drive-By Solidarity: Conceptualizing the Temporal Relationship between #BlackLivesMatter and Anonymous’ #OpKKK.” Contention 10 (2): 25–55.
Brittany N. Perry, Samantha Zuhlke, Fernando Tormos-Aponte. 2022. “Building Infrastructure to Enhance Diversity in Political Methodology.” PS: Political Science & Politics: 1-5.
Alireza Inanlouganji, Giulia Pedrielli, T. Agami Reddy, and Fernando Tormos-Aponte. 2022. "A computational approach for real-time stochastic recovery of electric power networks during a disaster." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review Issue 163, 1027
“The Influence of Marginalized Groups in Global Climate Governance.” Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability 52C: 125–131, 2021.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Gustavo García-López, Mary Angelica Painter. 2021. “Energy inequality and clientelism in the wake of disasters: From colorblind to affirmative power restoration.” Energy Policy. Volume 158.
Kamil M. Gerónimo López and Fernando Tormos-Aponte. “Critical thinking and embodied learning for a Puerto Rican student movement pedagogy.” New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Volume 2021, Issue 171-172, pp. 55-67.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, James E. Wright II, and Heath Brown. “Implementation Has Failed, Implementation Studies Have Failed Even More: Racism and the Future of Systemic Change.” Social Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 7, 2021, pp. 3087-3094.
Rachel L. Einwohner, Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Fernando Tormos- Aponte, S. Laurel Weldon, Jared M. Wright, and Charles Wu (authors listed in alphabetical order). “Active Solidarity: Intersectional Solidarity in Action.” Oxford Academic: Social Politics. Volume 28, Issue 3, 2021.
“An Organizing Approach to Diversifying Political Science” PS: Political Science and Politics. Volume 54, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 163-168.
Research Interests
Social Movements
Identity Politics
Transnational Politics
Intersectionality
Social Justice
Disasters
Race Relations
Environmental Politics
