Leland Glenna, Ph.D.

Vitae

Research Interests

My teaching and research program is in agriculture and natural resources. Within that more general program, I have three areas of emphasis: 1) social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, 2) the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and 3) the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.

Current/Recent Courses

• CED 360: Corporate Social Responsibility
• RSoc 502: Use of Theory in Rural Sociology
• CED 445: International Development Practice

Recent Selected Publications

Glenna, Leland L. 2025. “White Christian Nationalism in the Rural United States.” New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 2025: 21-27.

Scott, Christian Kelly, Guangqing Chi, and Leland Glenna. 2024. “Household Food Security in the Agropastoral Communities of Rural Southern Kyrgyzstan.” Agriculture and Food Security 13(14): 1-15.

Smithwick, Erica A. H., Jennifer Baka, Douglas Bird, Christopher Blaszscak-Boxe, Charles Andrew Cole, Jose D. Fuentes, Sarah E. Gergel, Leland L. Glenna, Caitlin Grady, Carter A. Hunt, Lisa D. Iulo, Jason Kaye, and Klaus Keller. 2023. “Regenerative Landscape Design: An Integrative Framework to Enhance Sustainability Planning.” Ecology and Society 28(4):5. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss4/art5

Glenna, Leland L. 2023. “Are Intellectual Property Policies for Gene-edited Crops Fit for Purpose? The Perspective of German Scientists.” Plants, People, Planet 5(6): 976-984. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10397

Gould, Fred, Richard M. Amasino, Dominique Brossard, C. Robin Buell, Richard A. Dixon, Jose B. Falck-Zepeda, Michael A. Gallo, Ken E. Giller, Leland L. Glenna, Timothy Griffin, Daniel Magraw, Carol Mallory-Smith, Kevin V. Pixley, Elizabeth P. Ransom, David M. Stelly, C. Neal Stewart Jr. 2022. “Toward product-based regulation of crops.” Science 377(6610): 1051-1053.

Bruce, Analena B., Yetkin Borlu, and Leland L. Glenna. 2022. “Assessing the scientific support for U.S. EPA pesticide regulatory policy governing active and inert ingredients.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-022-00788-4

Glenna, Leland and Curtis Stofferahn. 2022. “The Challenge of Christian Deliberation in a Libertarian Context: The Case of the ELCA’s Social Statement on Genetics.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 27(3): 230-260.

Hatanaka, Maki, Jason Konefal, Johann Strube, Leland Glenna, and David Conner. 2021. “Data‐Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture.” Rural Sociology 87(1): 206-230.

Glenna, Leland, and Analena Bruce. 2021. “Suborning Science for Profit: Monsanto, Glyphosate, and Private Science Research Misconduct.” Research Policy 50(7): 1-10.

Strube, Johann, Leland Glenna, Maki Hatanaka, Jason Konefal, and David Conner. 2021. “How Data-Driven, Privately Ordered Sustainability Governances Shapes US Food Supply Chains: The Case of Field to Market.” Journal of Rural Studies 86: 648-693. 

Chiles, Robert, Garrett Broad, Leland Glenna, Nicole Megowetti, Mark Gagnon, Lina Tami, Megan Griffin, Sienna Baker, and Kelly Beck. 2021. “Democratizing Ownership and Participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities in Cellular Agriculture.” Agriculture and Human Values 38(4): 943-961. 

Welsh, Rick, Yuju Chien, Adiranne Traub, and Leland Glenna. 2021. “Plant Science and Intellectual Property Protections in Taiwan.” Rural Sociology 86(4): 864-885.

Borlu, Yetkin and Leland Glenna. 2020. "Environmental Concern in a Capitalist Economy: Climate Change Perception Among U.S. Specialty-Crop Producers." Organization & Environment. DOI: 10.1177/1086026619897545.

Glenna, Leland L., Yetkin Borlu, Thomas Gill, Janelle Larson, Vincent Riccardi, and Rahma Adam. 2017. “Food Security, Sweet Potato Production, and Proximity to Markets in Northern Ghana." FACETS 2:919-936.

Glenna, Leland L. 2017. “The Purpose-Driven University: The Role of University Research in the Era of Science Commercialization." Agriculture and Human Values 34(4): 1021-1031.

Brandl, Barbara and Leland Glenna. 2017. “Intellectual Property and Agricultural Science and Innovation in Germany and the United States." Science, Technology, & Human Values 42(4): 622-656.

Tobin, Daniel, Leland Glenna, and Andre Devaux. 2016. “Pro-poor? Inclusion and Exclusion in Native Potato Value Chains in the Central Highlands of Peru." Journal of Rural Studies 46:71-80.

Glenna, Leland L., John Tooker, J. Rick Welsh, and David Ervin. 2015. “Intellectual Property, Scientific Independence, and the Efficacy and Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops." Rural Sociology 80(2): 147-17.

Recent Selected Presentations and Papers

Leland Glenna, William Lacy, Rick Welsh, and Dina Biscotti. “Institutional Norms, Scientists' Values, and Intellectual Property in the Context of Agricultural Biotechnology Research." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Boise, ID, 28-31 July 2011.

Glenna, Leland L. and Curtis Stofferahn. “When “Farming and Faith Collide": Factors Shaping a Controversy over the ELCA's Genetics and Faith Statement." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Boise, ID, 28-31 July 2011.

Hirschl, Thomas, James G. Booth, Leland Glenna, and Brandn Green. “An Empirical Test of Individualist vs. Social Models." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Boise, ID, 28-31 July 2011.

Recent Selected Awards and Recognition

• The Rural Sociological Society’s Excellence in Research Award 2024
• Fulbright Award for the Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program 2020-2021 (Declined because of Covid-19 pandemic)
• Gamma Sigma Delta Excellence in Teaching Award 2018
• Rural Sociology Best Paper Award 2016
• Community of Advising Excellence Award 2013
• Community of Teaching Excellence 2011
• Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society Award for Excellence in Research, 2010
• The Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Science's 2007 Roy C. Buck Award for best published paper by an untenured professor