| Student | Degree | Graduation Date | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Effie | MS | 8/2020 | Livelihoods in the Balance: Haitians, Haitian-Dominicans and Precarious Work in the Dominican Republic |
| Hancock, Matthew | MS | 5/2020 | Armed Conflict and Childhood Food Security: The Association between Exposure to Conflict and Childhood Nutrition in West Africa: 1998-2008 |
| Huot, Sovanneary | MS | 5/2020 | Gender and Leadership of Agricultural Cooperatives: The Case of Cambodia |
| Mueller, Joel Thomas | PHD | 5/2020 | The Effect of Natural Resource Dependence on Economic Prosperity in Rural America |
| Wang, Wei Lin | PHD | 12/2019 | Childhood Obesity and Rural Disparities: Rurality, Environment and Body Mass Index Among U.S. Children |
| Chandler, Raeven | PHD | 12/2019 | Latinx Health and Health Care in the United States: Comparing Rural and Urban Adults in New versus Established Destinations |
| Whitley, Hannah Terese | MS | 12/2019 | Power, Privilege, and "Playing in the Dirt": An Intersectional Exploration of Women's Agricultural Experiences in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Hoffelmeyer, Michaela | MS | 12/2019 | Sexuality and Sustainable Agriculture: Queer Farmers in the Northeastern U.S. |
| Sanders, Arie A | PHD | 8/2019 | Assembling the Horticulture Value Chain in Western Honduras |
| Eissler, Sarah Elizabeth | PHD | 8/2019 | Chcolate and Climate Change: Investigating Gener Dynamics of Small-Scale Cacao Producers in Lampung and South Sulawesi Indonesia |
| Field, Meredith | PHD | 8/2019 | Power and Injustice: Exploring the Factors that Limit Women's Access to Maternal Health Care in Rural Pennsylvania |
| Zhou, Shuai | MS | 8/2019 | Subsidized Relocation and the Willingness to Move: Evidence from the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Project in China |
| Rocker, Sarah | PHD | 5/2019 | Value Chain Coordination: A New Strategy for Developing Soft Infrastructure in Regional Agri-Food Systems in the United States |
| Man, Christian Richard | PHD | 12/2018 | Seed Aid, Smallholders, and the Develoopmental State: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Emergency Relief Programs in Ethiopia |
| Hagedorn, Annelise Dejong | PHD | 12/2018 | “If We Were Valued More": A Study of Childcare Providers in Rural Southwest Pennsylvania |
| Engle, Elyzabeth Whitney | PHD | 8/2018 | Community Capacity Building, Context, and Everyday Environmental Injustices: Rural Community Gardening and Organizational Networks in Central Appalachia |
| Traore, Abou | PHD | 8/2018 | Evaluating Agronomic and Social Dimensions of Rice Production: Increasing the Productivity of Smallholders in the NERICA /Rice Value Chain in Guinea |
| Christy, Celize Ciomara | MS | 8/2018 | Interlinks of Local Knowledge and Community in Challenging Poultry Health in Rwanda |
| Wang, Donghui | PHD | 8/2018 | The Power of Ideas: How Norms, Perceptions and Aspirations Relate to Demographic Patterns and Individual Well-Being in China |
| Wildermuth, Grace Amanda | MS | 5/2018 | Marcellus Shale Landowner Coalitions: Form, Function, and Impact |
| Perchinski, Joshua Cody | MS | 12/2017 | Collective Efficacy and Fear of Crime in the Context of Natural Gas Development |
| Castro Bernardim, Maria Del | PHD | 12/2017 | Antes del Amanecer [Up Before Dawn]: Work-Family Strategies of Asparagus Agricultural Wage Workers |
| Balfour, Bruce Joseph | PHD | 12/2017 | Incubating Community: Arts-Based Development, Network Structure, and the Embedding Process |
| Wornell Seregow, Emily Joy | PHD | 5/2017 | Immigrant Integration In New US Destinations: The Prevalence, Function, And Networks Of Informal Work |
| Quinhentos, Maria | MS | 5/2017 | Social Networks and Farmers' Willingness to Adopt New Agricultural Technologies: The Case of a New Phosphorus-Efficient Bean Variety in Rural Mozambique |
| Tavenner, Kathleen Ann | PHD | 12/2016 | A Feminist Political Ecology of Indigenous Vegetables in a South African Protected Area Community |
| Unroe, Colleen Elizabeth | MS | 12/2016 | Conditions and Constraints Related to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources in Pennsylvania |
| Suchyta, Mark Edward | MS | 12/2016 | Understanding Sense of Place in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale |
| Ely, Danielle Mamie | PHD | 12/2016 | Using the Rural-Urban Continuum to Assess Women's Reproductive Health Care Utilization Across the Life Course |
| Rhubart, Danielle Christine | PHD | 8/2016 | Expanding Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act: Out with the Disparities and in with the… Disparities? |
| Reyes, Carolyn | MS | 8/2016 | Motivating the Motivators: Teacher Perceptions of the Peruvian 2012 Teacher Career Law |
| Bataineh, Karim | MS | 5/2016 | Could Empathy Lead to Community Development? A Study on the Factors Shaping and Maintaining Personal Empathy. |
| Eshleman, John T | PHD | 5/2016 | Issues, Resources, Strategies: A Field-level Analysis of National Agrifood Organizations |
| Larson, Eric Charles | PHD | 5/2016 | Private Forest Landowner Willingness, Community Impacts and Concerns, and the Development of a Wood-based Biofuels Industry |
| Ward, Melissa | MS | 5/2016 | Using Local Demographic Characteristics to Predict Admittance and Enrollment of Underrepresented Applicants in a Midwest Flagship University |
| Reyes, Carolyn | MS | 8/2016 | Motivating the Motivators: Teacher Perceptions of the Peruvian 2012 Teacher Career Law |
| Rhubart, Danielle | PHD | 8/2016 | Expanding Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act: Out with the Disparities and In with the...Disparities? |
| Bataineh, Karim | MS | 5/2016 | Could Empathy Lead to Community Development? A Study on the Factors Shaping and Maintaining Personal Empathy |
| Eshleman, John | PHD | 5/2016 | Issues, Resources, Strategies: A Field-Level Analysis of National Agrifood Organizations |
| Larson, Eric | PHD | 5/2016 | Private Forest Landowner Willingness, Community Impacts and Concerns, and the Development of a Wood-Based Biofuels Industry |
| Ward, Melissa | MS | 5/2016 | Using Local Demographic Characteristics to Predict Admittance and Enrollment of Underrepresented Applicants in a Midwest Flagship University |
| Augst, Tyler | MS | 12/2015 | Are We Still Digitally Divided? Analysis of Uses of the Internet Across Residence in the United States |
| Castellanos, Paige | PHD | 12/2015 | Stipends and Schooling: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Evaluating Costa Rica's Conditional Cash Transfer Education Program, Avancemos |
| Corra, Jennifer | PHD | 12/2015 | Aspirations, Expectations, and Influences on the Post-Secondary Plans of Rural Youth |
| Eissler, Sarah | MS | 12/2015 | Understanding Diffusion of Innovations with Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Turrialba, Costa Rica |
| Hagedorn, Annelise | MS | 12/2015 | Extracurricular Participation in Rural Pennsylvania High Schools: What Helps? What Hurts? |
| Hayden, Jennifer | PHD | 12/2015 | The Social Life of Soil |
| Sterner, Glenn | PHD | 08/2015 | An Examination of Community Organizing Processes to Assess the Potential for Increasing Innovation in Practice |
| Tran, Thang | MS | 08/2015 | Ethnic Minorities and Fertility in Vietnam: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Contraception |
| Babbie, Kristin | MS | 12/2014 | Intersections of Knowledge, New Information Technologies, and Ideas of Good Farming in Southeast Pennsylvania and Northwest Italy |
| Engle, Elyzabeth | MS | 12/2014 | The Local Experience: A Study of Two Pennsylvania Farm-to-Restaurant Networks |
| Franklin, Madeline | MS | 12/2014 | Owning Land: The Experiences of Women Farmers in Maryland |
| Terman, Anna Rachel | PHD | 08/2014 | Hillbilly Women, Affrilachians, and Queer Mountaineers: Belonging and Mobility among Young Adults in Rural Communities |
| Adam, Rahma | PHD | 05/2014 | Gender and the Dynamics of Production and Distribution of Sweet Potato Planting Materials among Small Holder Farmers in the Lake Victoria Zone Region, Tanzania |
| Borlu, Yetkin | PHD | 05/2014 | Following the Maize: Regulation and Production in the Agricultural Landscape in Turkey in the 2000s |
| Jones, Kristal | PHD | 05/2014 | Emerging Seed Markets, Substantive Seed Economics and Integrated Seed Systems in West Africa: A Mixed Methods Analysis |
| Bloom, J. Dara | PHD | 12/2013 | Strategies for a Sustainable Food System: Issues of Goverance in a Corporate-Led Model of Food System Localization |
| Pillen, Leslie | MS | 12/2013 | From Old Agricultural Ladders to New Land Access Springboards: An Examination of Land Link Programs in the Northeast U.S. |
| Wood, Kathleen | MS | 12/2013 | Laboring to Learn and Learning to Labor: Experiences of Farm Interns on Sustainable Farms |
| Ader, David | PHD | 08/2013 | People of the Land Without Land: A Socio-Demographic Study of Mapuche Poverty |
| DeLessio-Parson, Anne | MS | 08/2013 | Vegetarianism in a Meat Landscape: A Case Study of Vegetarians in La Plata, Argentina |
| Green, Brandn | PHD | 08/2013 | Christianity, Self-Transcendence, and Congregational Influences on the Generation of Environmental Values, Attitudes and Behaviors |
| Moseley, Jannety | MS | 08/2013 | Utilization of Public Assistance Among Mexican-Americans in the Black Belt South: Implications of 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reform |
| Rhubart, Danielle | MS | 08/2013 | Former Street-Involved Children in Rural Central Kenya: Uncovering an Understudied Population |
| Gunsallus, April | MS | 12/2012 | Neighborly Stripping: Exotic Dance in a Rural Club |
| Filteau, Matthew | PHD | 08/2012 | Who are Those Guys? Undoing the Oilfield's Roughneck Masculinity |
| Kelly, Andrew | MS | 08/2012 | Estimating Migration to Pennsylvania Counties due to Marcellus Shale Drilling Activity |
| Longmire, Cynthia | PHD | 08/2012 | Pennsylvania's Private Forest Landowners: Exploring Motivations, Management Activities and Sources of Information |
| Shoff, Carla | PHD | 08/2012 | Disparities in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy across the Levels and Dimensions of Rurality |
| Badayos-Jover, Mary | PHD | 05/2012 | Mainstreaming Gender in Philippine Institutional Responses to Climate Change |
| Nonoguchi, Atsuko | PHD | 05/2012 | Gender and Climate Change in Nepal |
| Roka, Krishna | PHD | 05/2012 | Evaluating the Performance of NGOs in Nepal |
| Fortunato, Michael | PHD | 12/2011 | The Individual-Institutional Opportunity Nexus: Examining Interaction, Purpose and Opportunity in Rural Entrepreneurship Development |
| Jones, Kristal | MS | 12/2011 | Ground for Change: Assessing the Efficacy of Participatory Research and Development of Agricultural Innovations |
| Raboanarielina, Cara | PHD | 08/2011 | Community Perspectives on Conservation, Forest Livelihoods, and Social Well-being in Zahamena National Park, Madagascar |
| Eshleman, John | MS | 05/2011 | Knowledge Co-Production and Agricultural Field Days: A Comparison of Three Models |
| Bedford, Jason | PHD | 12/2010 | Teaching Change: A Mixed-Method Study of Interventions, Risk Perceptions, and Behavior Change among the Garifuna of Honduras |
| Schwartzberg, Audrey | MS | 12/2010 | Practices and Perspectives in Farm Labor Management: A Qualitative Study of Small-Scale Growers in Central Pennsylvania |
| Weigle, Jason | PHD | 12/2010 | Resilience, Community, and Perceptions of Marcellus Shale Development in the Pennsylvania Wilds |
| Clark, Jonathan | PHD | 08/2010 | Greening The Factory Farm: Toward a Theory of Agri-environmental Technoscience |
| Kazeem, Aramide | PHD | 08/2010 | Examining Children's Well-Being: Schooling and Child Labor in Nigeria |
| Gordon, Jason | PHD | 05/2010 | Latino Environmental Perceptions and Uses of Outdoor Recreation Areas: Community and Natural Resources in Pennsylvania |
| Jensen, Eric | PHD | 05/2010 | Distant Fields: Mexican Farmworkers and New Immigrant Destinations in the United States |
| Woods, Bradley | PHD | 05/2010 | Social Well-Being in the Appalachian Coalfields |
| Coleman-Jensen, Alisha | PHD | 08/2009 | Time Poverty, Work Characteristics and the Transition to Food Insecurity among Low-Income Households |
| Mendum, Ruth | PHD | 08/2009 | The Scientific Seed: Collaborative Plant Breeding and the Enhancement of Biodiversity |
| Bloom, J. Dara | MS | 05/2009 | Conceptualizing "Hybrid" Food Networks: Engaging Conventional Food System Infrastructure to Build Local Food Systems. |
| Shoff, Carla | MS | 05/2009 | Teenage Fertility: Does Place, Race, or Poverty Matter? |
| Wolfmuller, Kristin | MS | 05/2009 | Personal Troubles and Public Issues as Master Frames |
| Meyer, Alissa | PHD | 12/2008 | Farming Fuels: Searching for Rural Revitalization in an Agricultural Bioeconomy |
| Cascante-Matarrita, David | PHD | 08/2008 | Consequences of Tourism-Based Growth on Rural Communities' Quality of Life: A Comparative Study of Liberia and La Fortuna, Costa Rica |
| Ryan, Andrea | PHD | 08/2008 | The Effects of Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use on Initial Family Formation |
| Smith, Lindsay | MS | 08/2008 | From Cow Belles to WagNs: Factors that Have Influenced the Creation of Women Initiated Agriculture Organizations in the United States |
| Thomas, Robert | MS | 08/2008 | From Renewable to Alternative: Waste Coal and the Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard |
| Yang, Tse-Chuan | PHD | 08/2008 | Exploring the Rural Paradox: A Spatial Investigation of Rurality and Mortality |
| Curry, Alisha | MS | 05/2008 | Out-Group Marriages and Cohabitations: A Logistic Regression Approach to Studying Black, White, and Hispanic Unions |
| Amsden, Benoni | PHD | 12/2007 | Understanding Sense of Place Among Community Residents and Volunteers in Alaska |
| Raboanarielina, Cara | MS | 12/2007 | Factors Associated with Forest Management in Allegany County, Maryland |
| Gordon, Jason | MS | 08/2007 | A Comparative Analysis of Community Risk Perception and Resilience to Wildfire |
| Bagdonis, Jessica | MS | 05/2007 | Perceptions and Organization of Emerging Farm-to-School Programming in Rural and Urban Pennsylvania Settings. |
| Iwasaki, Takashi | MS | 05/2007 | Approaching Adults' Perceptions of Responsibility for Child Well-Being |
| Jolly, Natalie | PHD | 05/2007 | Public Culture, Private Birth: Social Patterns of Amish Domestic Space |
| Bhandari, Prem | PHD | 12/2006 | Technology Use in Agriculture and Occupational Mobility of Farm Households in Nepal: Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates |
| Lenihan, Martin | PHD | 12/2006 | State, Social Movement and Producer Perspectives on Multifunctional Agriculture in the Global Food Regime |
| Coleman-Jensen, Alisha | MS | 08/2006 | Defining Food Insecurity Status: A Consideration of U.S. Households 'At Risk for Food Insecurity' |
| Sambisa, William | PHD | 08/2006 | The Influence of Women's Autonomy and Women's Status on Their Adoption of Safe Sexual Behavior as Related to HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe |
| Smith (Sparks), Patrice | PHD | 08/2006 | Inequality and Infant Health: A Multilevel Approach to Disentangling Correlates of Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Disparities in Low Birth Weight Infants |
| Demi, Mary | MS | 07/2006 | Adolescent Educational and Residential Aspirations: The Role of Community |
| Khatun, Mahmuda | PHD | 05/2006 | Invisible Men in Power: Some Evidence on UnMet Need for Family Planning in Bangladesh |
| Cascante-Matarrita, David | MS | 08/2005 | Factors Associated with Community Participation in Western Communities. |
| James, Erin | MS | 05/2005 | Factors Influencing the Adoption and Non-Adoption of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the Cannonsville Watershed, New York |
| Tanzo, Irene | PHD | 05/2005 | Women and Pesticide Management in the Philippines: An Assessment of Roles and Knowledge |
| Flint (Hauge), Courtney | PHD | 12/2004 | Community Response to Forest Disturbancies on Alaska's Kensi Peninsula |
| Slack, Timothy | PHD | 12/2004 | Work, Welfare, and the Informal Economy: An Examination of Family Livelihood Strategies |
| Goncuoglu,Sezer | PHD | 05/2004 | Public Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Foods |
| Brennan, Mark | PHD | 12/2003 | Community Agency: A Comparison of Rural Community Action in Ireland and Pennsylvania. |
| Chen, Jiaqiang | MS | 12/2003 | Contraceptive Use and Method Choice in China |
| Leon/Castro, Camilo | MS | 12/2003 | Social Impact Assessment of Camisea Pipeline Project |
| Van Loon, Mollie | PHD | 05/2003 | Teenage Pre-Marital Childbearing |
| Imoff, Ethan | MS | 12/2002 | Determining the Socioeconomic Impacts of Prison Construction on Rural Communities: A Case Study of Somerset, Pennsylvania |
| Bodes, Kimberly | MS | 06/2002 | Does Residence and Income Matter? A Cohort Comparison of Youth Employment in 1979 and 1997 |
| Knight, Andrew | PHD | 05/2002 | Afraid of Food? An Integrative Approach to the Study of Risk Perception |
