• Assistant Dean and Director of Ag Sciences Global
  • Faculty Affiliate, School of International Affairs
  • Professor of Entomology

Areas of Expertise

  • Soil Entomology and Ecology
  • Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
  • Insect Pathology
  • Women and Gender in Science
  • Women and Agriculture
  • Professor of Horticulture

Areas of Expertise

  • Informal seed systems in Southeast Asia
  • Temperate zone woody plants
  • Christmas tree management
  • Extension and advisory systems for developing countires
  • Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor
  • Agricultural Safety and Health Program Lead

Areas of Expertise

  • Agricultural health and safety
  • Rural Sociology
  • Sociology of food and agriculture
  • Farm household’s social and economic needs
  • Social and agricultural policies
  • Community and economic development
  • Qualitative and quantitative research methods
  • Professor of Rural Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Governance Systems
  • Energy and Society
  • Community Development and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Water Quality
  • Women in Agriculture
  • Associate Research Professor
  • Gender Equity in Ag Research and Education (GEARE) program;
  • and International and National Extension
  • Agricultural Sciences Global

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender and urban agriculture
  • Gender, renewable energy and agriculture
  • Gender, water and agriculture
  • Gender, global environmental change and agriculture
  • Gender, youth and agriculture
  • Gender and development
  • 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
  • Professor of Pedology & Graduate Program Chair

Areas of Expertise

  • Soil Science
  • Watershed Management
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
  • Professor of Forest Resources

Areas of Expertise

  • Water Energy Food Nexus
  • Bioenergy
  • Agroforestry
  • Forest Economics and Finance
  • International Forestry
  • Forest Extension
  • Non Timber Forest Products
  • Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography

Areas of Expertise

  • Social Stratification
  • Demography
  • International Development
  • Rural Sociology
  • Assistant Professor of Forest Resources Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Social and economic values associated with private forests, including prescribed fire, wildlife, and carbon sequestration.
  • Assistant Professor of Public Policy
  • Jeffrey L. and Sharon D. Hyde-McCourtney Career Development Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environment, development, and health economics linkages
  • South Asia, Indonesia, and the United States
  • Household responses to environmental risks
  • Social and household factors mediating demand for technologies that avert or mitigate environmental risk
  • Sustainability of technological adoption
  • Long term health and human capital implications of low investment in averting and mitigating technologies
  • Associate Professor of International Affairs

Areas of Expertise

  • International Development and Globalization, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Political Economy of Agriculture and Food systems
  • Social Studies of Science and Technology, with an emphasis on agriculture and food
  • Gender, Social Change and Development
  • Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender and Agriculture
  • Women Farmers
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Gender and Climate Change
  • Assistant Professor of Marketing and Local/Regional Food Systems

Areas of Expertise

  • Local Food Systems
  • Agritourism
  • Craft beverage industry
  • Value added agriculture
  • Farm management
  • Economics of Animal and Zoonotic Diseases
  • 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
  • Professor emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography

Areas of Expertise

  • rural poverty and livelihoods
  • spatial inequality
  • gender and development
  • gender, disaster, and climate change

Ag Sciences Global

Address

106 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802

Ag Sciences Global

Address

106 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802