Co-Director

  • Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
  • Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
  • Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
  • Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England

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

Affiliated Faculty

  • Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
  • Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • College of Agricultural Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • Child welfare
  • Criminal justice
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Qualitative methods
  • Rural Community Development
  • Substance Use
  • Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology.
  • Assistant Professor in Community Development and Resilience

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Applied Research Educator, Center for Economic and Community Development

Areas of Expertise

  • Community and neighborhood development, economic development, secondary data analysis, data visualization and communication, public administration, public policy

Penn State Extension CECD Fellows

  • Extension Educator

Areas of Expertise

  • Food Safety and Nutrition
  • Engaged Scholarship