- Professor of Rural Sociology
- Director of Graduate Studies
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 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
- Email gchi@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8245
- 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
- Email rchiles@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8626
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Email llg13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8636
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Social Stratification
- Demography
- International Development
- Rural Sociology
- Email ljensen@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8642
- Department Head of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
- Email lzk68@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5461
- 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 Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Population and environment
- International development
- Poverty and inequality
- Migration
- Email bct11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2561
- Professor emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- rural poverty and livelihoods
- spatial inequality
- gender and development
- gender, disaster, and climate change
- Email art14@psu.edu
- Office 814-954-2735
