Ann Tickamyer Ph.D.
- Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
University Park, PA 16802
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1979
Research Interests
My research interests focus on poverty, livelihood practices, and welfare provision in rural Appalachia and Indonesia. I have two recently published books on these topics:
- Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages authored with Siti Kusujiarti
- Economic Restructuring and Family-Well-Being in Rural America , edited with Kristin Smith.
Extension/Outreach Interests
I seek ways to communicate my research and scholarship in a variety of public arenas, ranging from community groups to policy makers with the goal of providing knowledge for informed social policy, advocacy, and decision-making.
Recent Selected Publications
Tickamyer, Ann R. and Siti Kusujiarti. 2012. Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, Southeast Asia Series.
Smith, Kristin and Ann R. Tickamyer (eds.). 2011. Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Tickamyer, Ann R. and Debra A. Henderson. 2010. Devolution, Social Exclusion, and Spatial Inequality in U.S. Welfare Provision. Pp. 41-60 in Paul Milbourne (ed.), Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives, Research in Rural Sociology and Development v. 15. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Group.
Henderson, Debra and Ann Tickamyer. 2009. The Intersection of Poverty Discourses: Race, Class, Culture, and Gender. Pp. 50-72 in Bonnie Dill and Ruth Zambrana (eds.), Emerging Intersections: Building Knowledge and Transforming Institutions. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
Tickamyer, Ann R. 2009. Rural Poverty. Pp. 416-420 in Nigel Thrift and Rob Kitchin (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography v. 8. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Henderson, Debra and Ann Tickamyer. 2008. Lost in Appalachia: The Unexpected Impact of Welfare Reform on Older Women in Rural Communities. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 35(3):153-171.
Lobao, Linda, Gregory Hooks, and Ann Tickamyer. 2008. Poverty and Inequality Across Space: Sociological Reflections on the Missing-Middle Subnational Scale.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society 1 (April):89-113.
Lobao, Linda, Gregory Hooks, and Ann Tickamyer (eds.) 2007. The Sociology of Spatial Inequality . NY: SUNY Press.
