• 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 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
  • Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
  • Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography

Areas of Expertise

  • Social Stratification
  • Demography
  • International Development
  • Rural Sociology
  • 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
  • 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
  • Teaching Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Governance
  • Community Development
  • Landscape Systems Design
  • 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
  • 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