• 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Associate Professor

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
  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
  • Professor of Agricultural Economics
  • Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
  • Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education

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

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
  • Teaching Professor

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
  • Global Service-Learning
  • 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

Areas of Expertise

  • Population and environment
  • Climate change and health
  • International development
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration
  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Agribusiness Management
  • 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 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