Andy R. Smolski
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development
University Park, PA 16802
- Email ars7770@psu.edu
- PDF Curriculum Vitae
- Pronouns He/Him/Él
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative-historical analysis of agricultural production and environmental sustainability
- Latin America and the Carribean
- United States
- Race, Scale, and Agrarianism
- Farmer and Farmworker Stress
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Community-Based Participatory Research
Education
- North Carolina State University - Ph.D. in Sociology, 2021
- Illinois State University – M.A. in Sociology, 2013
- University of Houston-University Park – B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology, 2011
Current Research Agenda
Andy Smolski's research centers the resilience and sustainability of agriculture and food systems in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. One major project analyzes qualitative data on how small-scale farmers navigate farm stress and resource access according to multiple social identities (e.g., new and beginning farmer, race, gender, veteran status, etc.). A second major project involves comparative-historical analysis of how structural and institutional factors condition the types and sustainability of agricultural production practices implemented in different national contexts.
Publications
Agrarian Frames, Farm Financial Crisis, and Farmer Stress: A Qualitative Comparison of Small-Scale Farmers
Rural Sociology, Smolski, Andrew R., Schulman, Michael D., Porciuncula, Juliene, 2025
Content Analysis of Farm Population Mental Health Online Information Resources in the CES Southern Region
Journal of Extension, Porciuncula, Juliene, Schulman, Michael, Smolski, Andrew, 2025
Vitor Eduardo Schincariol, and Joana Salém Vasconcelos. Cuba and the Economic Policies of Peripheral Socialism. Recent Reforms in a Historical Perspective. [Routledge Studies in Development Economics, Vol. 189.] Routledge, London [etc.] 2024. xx, 222 pp. £135.00. (E-book: £35.99.)
International Review of Social History, Smolski, Andrew, 2025
The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question: An Introduction
Latin American Perspectives, García Grandón, Daniela, Salém Vasconcelos, Joana, Smolski, Andrew R., 2024
Navigating Farm Stress: Traumatic and Resilient Dimensions of the Black Agrarian Frame
Journal of Agromedicine, Smolski, Andrew R., Schulman, Michael D., 2024
The Cropland Expansionary Dynamics of Agricultural Production in Latin America: A Panel Study of Fourteen Countries, 1970-2016
Latin American Perspectives, Smolski, Andrew R., Clark, Timothy P., 2024
It’s not just the farm: enterprise and household responses to the pandemic by North Carolina niche meat producers
Agriculture and Human Values, Smolski, Andrew R., Schulman, Michael D., Pietrosemoli, Silvana, Tiezzi, Francesco, 2024
Power & Program Design: Moving From Charity to Innovation
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, Shisler, Rebecca, Smolski, Andy, Piner, Abbey, Cruz, Angel, Brinkmeyer, Emma, 2024
Keystone Community Leaders and Their Role in Farmer-Led Community Organizations
Farm Stress Brief Series, Ingram, Camille, Schulman, Michael, Smolski, Andrew, 2024
Applied Social Science as Tools for Change
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, Smolski, Andy, Shisler, Rebecca, Piner, Abbey, Cruz, Angel, Brinkmeyer, Emma, 2023
Systemic Racism and the Food System
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, Smolski, Andy, Piner, Abbey, Cruz, Angel, Shisler, Rebecca, Brinkmeyer, Emma, 2023
Farm and Ranch Mental Health: Stressors, Barriers, and Strategies
Farm Stress Brief Series, Smolski, Andy, Mosley, Chaney, Robison, Kenneth, Brown, Marcia, Paskewitz, Emily, Schulman, Michael, Sedges, Heather, Court, Christa, Miller, Laura, Rathi, Akanksha, Hossfeld, Leslie, 2023
Cuba’s Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators, Smolski, Andrew, 2023
Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production A Comparative-Historical Study of Cuban Incorporation, Delinking and Exile
Journal of World-Systems Research, Smolski, Andrew R., 2022
Capitalism and Sustainability: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Frameworks in Environmental Political Economy
Social Currents, Clark, Timothy P., Smolski, Andrew R., Allen, Jason S., Hedlund, John, Sanchez, Heather, 2022
Farmers’ Perceptions of Information and Resources for Navigating Economic Hardship and Stress, Smolski, Andy, Schulman, Michael, Tutor-Marcom, Robin, Bynum, Diamond, 2022
Snap Into Justice
Contexts, Smolski, Andy, Rutz, Jacob, Tiezzi, Francesco, 2022
Case Studies in the Sociology of Absence and Emergence: Anarcho-Populism in Russia and Mexico
Theory in Action, Smolski, Andy, Sethness, Javier, Ross, Alexander, 2022
Introduction: Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America
Latin American Perspectives, Smolski, Andrew R., Lorenzen, Matthew, 2021
North Carolina Food System Resiliency Strategy, Zuckerman, Jennifer, Piner, Abbey, Daly, Jack, Smolski, Andy, Templeton, Gizem, Bloom, J., Conrad, Ali, Lococo, Nicole, Darwish, Sara, Towell, Elizabeth, Hill, Deborah, Hawkins, Jamilla, George, Tiera, Van Fleet, Erin, Padilla Guerrero, Andrea, Stout, Robyn, Thraves, Tessa, Walker, Josie, Hynson, Janie, 2021
Class Struggle and Violence in Latin American Cities
Latin American Perspectives, Smolski, Andy, 2021
Two Stories about Extractivism
Latin American Perspectives, Oceguera, Emilia, Grandón, Daniela, Smolski, Andy, 2021
Episcopal Farmworker Ministry and disaster response to COVID-19
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Garzon, Lariza, Smolski, Andrew R., 2020
Stemming the Exploitation of Immigrant Farm Labor
Contexts, Smolski, Andy, 2019
Lessons from exits foreclosed: An exilic interpretation of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, 1910–1924
Capital and Class, Smolski, Andrew R., Sethness Castro, Javier, Ross, Alexander Reid, 2018
Why Raleigh needs a stronger commitment to urban agriculture
News & Observer, Smolski, Andy, 2018
An eco-egalitarian solution to the capitalist consumer paradox: Integrating short food chains and public market systems
Agriculture (Switzerland), Leglise, Mario Del Roble Pensado, Smolski, Andrew, 2017
Review of El Deshabitado by Javier Sicilia
Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Smolski, Andrew, 2017
Killing Trayvons: an anthology of American violence and Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South
Race & Class, Smolski, Andy, 2016
An academic object for decolonization
Postcolonial Studies, Smolski, Andy, 2016
Food distribution's socio-economic relationships and public policy: Mexico City's municipal public markets
Development in Practice, Torres Salcido, Gerardo, del Roble Pensado Leglise, Mario, Smolski, Andrew, 2015
Grabbing Back: Essays against the global land grab
Development in Practice, Smolski, Andy, 2015
