Interim Director
- 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
- Email jlindemann@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8646
Affiliated Faculty and Extension Educators
- Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
- Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- 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
- Extension Educator
Areas of Expertise
- Food Safety and Nutrition
- Engaged Scholarship
- 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
- Email pfk5055@psu.edu
- Pronouns She/Her
- 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
- Email kspangler@psu.edu
- Pronouns she/her/hers
- John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur in Residence
- Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Research Commercialization
- Innovation and Entreprenuership
- Intellectual Property
- Organization Development and Change
Staff
- Administrative Support Assistant for the Center for Economic and Community Development
- Email azg5380@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3536
- Pronouns She/Her
- Senior Research Associate, Center for Economic and Community Development (CECD)
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Research
- Community and Neighborhood Development
- Community Capacity Building
- Sustainable Economic Development
- Primary and Secondary Data Analysis
- Spatial Analysis
- Data Visualization and Engagement
- Public Administration
- Public Policy
- Facilitation
- Digital Equity
- Email cah215@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7428
- Pronouns She/Her
Past Co-Director
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England
- Past Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
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
