About Ryan

Ryan Ceresola is an assistant professor at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He earned his PhD at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with a dissertation on the effects of US political corruption on voter turnout and citizen trust. His other research interests include criminology, deviance, and the sociology of the environemnt. He has an MA in Sociology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a BA in Sociology and in English from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. 

Recent Publications

Hydraulic Fracturing

Ceresola, Ryan and Jessica Crowe. 2015. “Community Leaders’ Perspectives on Shale Development in the New Albany Shale.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 30(1):62-86.
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Political Corruption

Ceresola, Ryan. 2018. "The U.S. Government's framing of corruption: A content analysis of Public Integrity Section reports, 1978-2013." Crime, Law and Social Change. Online First. 


Cultural Capital in AmeriCorps

Ryan Ceresola. 2018.  “The Influence of Cultural Capital on How AmeriCorps Members Interpret Their Service.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 29(1):93-103
View my full list of publications on my curriculum vitae here.