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- Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
- Global food and agricultural markets
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England
- Past Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Development Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Community and Regional Economics
- Community and Rural Development
- Comparative Rural Policy
- Institutional and Behavioral Economics
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
- Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
- Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- Assistant Professor in Family Studies, Child, and Youth Development
- Academic Lead, Penn State Better Kid Care
Areas of Expertise
- Prevention Science
- Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
- Early Childhood Education
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Latent Variable Models
- Time-varying Effect Models
- Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator, Community and Economic Development (CEDEV)
Areas of Expertise
- Curriculum Design and Instruction
- Empathy and Mindfulness Education
- Non-Formal Educational Program Development
- Education Program Evaluation
- Youth Leadership Development
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Areas of Expertise
- Appalachia
- Child welfare system
- Criminal legal system
- Qualitative methods
- Rural health
- Rural poverty
- Substance use
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Governance Systems
- Energy and Society
- Community Development and Stakeholder Engagement
- Water Quality
- Women in Agriculture
- Professor and UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Peace through Youth and Community Engagement
Areas of Expertise
- Community
- Community and Leadership Development
- International Development
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Change/Social Movements
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Water Resource Economics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Behavioral Economics
- Policy Analysis
- Stormwater and Green Infrastructure
- Transportation Economics
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
- Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Socio-Environmental Systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Spatiotemporal modeling
- Data intensive social sciences
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental sociology
- Food and agricultural ethics
- Science, knowledge, and technology
- Culture and consumption
- Social psychology
- Animals and society
- Qualitative research methods
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Science Literacy
- Teacher Education
- School-based Agricultural Education
- Motivation
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management
Areas of Expertise
- consumer markets/behavior
- farm & small firm management
- technology adoption
- marketing strategies & techniques
- Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Policy
- Health Economics
- International Trade
- Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy;
- Director, Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES);
- President, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
Areas of Expertise
- Economy-wide modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
- Global Teach Ag Network Co-Founder
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Designing Global Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture Workforce
- School-based agricultural education
- Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar,
- Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management
- Agribusiness Management Undergraduate Program Coordinator,
- Co-Founder Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Agritech entrepreneurship
- Bio-renewable building product technologies
- Firm-industry analytics
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
- Director of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Areas of Expertise
- Food Systems Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Regional Economics and Policy
- Director, Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center (FREC)
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Farm Management
- Risk Management
- Production Economics
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Youth leadership development
- Teaching and learning
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Economic modeling of food purchase behavior
- Link between food behavior and health
- Food Waste
- Retail food product offerings and prices
- Organic food and agriculture
- Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Social Stratification
- Demography
- International Development
- Rural Sociology
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology.
Areas of Expertise
- Rural Poverty
- Spatial Inequality (community and rural/urban inequalities and development issues)
- State and Local Governments
- Social Policy
- Racialized Inequality
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Senior Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Director of Graduate Studies for Education, Development, and Community Engagement (EDCE) Graduate Program
Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
- Behavior Change Theories and Frameworks
- Social Network Analysis
- Survey Methodology
- Research Methods and Applied Data Analysis
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
- Assistant Professor in Community Development and Resilience
- Interim Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
Areas of Expertise
- Historical geographies of food production
- Food system equity
- Vacant land reuse
- Urban food production
- Politics of marginalization
- Social and spatial justice
- Community development
- Civic participation
- Politics of knowledge and epistemic pluralism
- Abolition geography
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Marketing
- Food and Energy Policy
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
- Associate Professor of Energy Economics
- Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
- John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow
- Associate Head for DEI, Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Governance
- Community Development
- Landscape Systems Design
- Professor of Youth and Family Resiliency and Policy
- Principal Scientist and Founder, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Affiliate Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Youth and Family Resiliency
- Service Members, Veterans and Military Families
- Dissemination and Implementation Science
- Evidence-based Programs
- Applied Research and Evaluations
- Community Collaboration
- Associate Director of Partnerships & Engagement
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Law
- Non-Point Source Pollution of Water (Agriculture and Urban Stormwater Runoff)
- Stakeholder Engagement at Local, State, Regional, and Federal Levels
- Assistant Professor of Marketing and Local/Regional Food Systems
Areas of Expertise
- Local Food Systems
- Agritourism
- Craft beverage industry
- Value added agriculture
- Farm management
- Economics of Animal and Zoonotic Diseases
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Farm labor
- Illegality
- Gender and Migration
- International Development
- Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives in Agriculture
- Gender and Sustainable Agriculture
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Global Service-Learning
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
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
- Assistant Professor of Community Development and Engagement
Areas of Expertise
- Agri-food systems
- Community development
- Climate justice
- Land use change
- Critical data science
- Qualitative methodologies
- John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur in Residence
- Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Research Commercialization
- Innovation and Entreprenuership
- Intellectual Property
- Organization Development and Change
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography
- Director of Graduate Studies in Rural Sociology
- Interim Director, Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, Population Research Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Population and environment
- Climate change and health
- International development
- Poverty and inequality
- Migration
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Areas of Expertise
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Social Dimensions of Energy
- Political Economy
- Quantitative Methods
- Assistant Research Professor
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agribusiness Management
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Assistant Professor, Youth and Adult Leadership, Penn State Extension
Areas of Expertise
- Adult and Youth Leadership Development
- Community Leadership Development
- Volunteerism
- Volunteer Leadership Development
- Needs Assessment Research
- Evaluation
- Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Urban and Land Use Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Policy Analysis
- Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Consumer Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Food Marketing
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Health Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Environmental Justice
- Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental and resource economics
- Land economics
- Spatial modeling
- Non-market valuation
