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- Interim Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
- Agribusiness Management Program Coordinator
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
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England
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
- Evidence-Based Programs
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Latent Variable 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
Areas of Expertise
- Child welfare
- Criminal justice
- Poverty and Inequality
- Qualitative methods
- Rural Community Development
- Substance Use
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Energy and Society, specifically Community Impacts of Marcellus Shale Development
- Community Development and Public Engagement
- Water Quality
- Environmental Governance Systems
- Women in Agriculture
- Professor and UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development
- Director of Graduate Studies for Education, Development, 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
- Director, the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Socio-environmental systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Computational and spatial analysis
- 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
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Policy
- Health Economics
- Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy
- Director, Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES)
- Co-Director, Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES)
Areas of Expertise
- Economy-wide modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
- Global Teach Ag Network Innovation Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture
- School-based agricultural education
- Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar
- Associate Teaching Professor, Agribusiness
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- AgTech 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
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Youth leadership development
- Teaching and learning
- Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Professor
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Economic modeling of food purchase behavior
- Link between food behavior and health
- 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.
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Interim Senior Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
- Human Decision Making
- 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
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Marketing
- Food and Energy Policy
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
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
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Population and Environment
- Global Health
- International Development
- 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
- Global Service-Learning
- 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
Areas of Expertise
- Population and environment
- International development
- Poverty and inequality
- Migration
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agribusiness Management
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Behavioural Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Health Economics
- Food Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Nonlinear, stochastic, dynamic system solution and simulation
- Applied econometrics
- Household and firm-level choice & performance
- Computational simulation
- Applied game modeling
- Valuation of and economic adaptation to extreme events (e.g. climate change)
- 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
- Graduate Program Director: Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (EEFE)
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Urban and Land Use Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Policy Analysis
- Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental and resource economics
- Land economics
- Spatial modeling
- Non-market valuation
