Jeffrey Jacquet received a Master's Degree in Sociology from the University of Wyoming in 2005. His Master's thesis, "A Geography of Second Homes in Wyoming," documented the growth of amenity-led development in Wyoming between 1990 and 2000. During and after graduate school Jeffrey worked as a correspondent for the Casper Star-Tribune. In 2005, he took a position working with a coalition of local governments to provide socioeconomic impact assessment from natural gas drilling operations occurring in Sublette County, Wyoming. In interviews collected for the “Energy Boom” oral history collection at UW’s American Heritage Center’s, county officials referred to him as “an unsung hero” and praised the insight that he provided local government officials on collecting data to assess the social impact of the oil field boom on communities. He has provided impact assessment of energy development professionally since that time and has worked in Wyoming, Colorado, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. In addition to consulting work, he was an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at SUNY - Corning Community College in New York. He also pursued a PhD in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, which he completed in 2012. He is now an assistant professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Rural Sociology.
