Applying to INTAD Graduate Faculty
- Graduate faculty from any discipline at Penn State University are eligible to apply.
- There is no deadline for application; faculty may apply at any time.
- Faculty are asked to submit the following documents to Melanie Miller Foster at mjm727@psu.edu:
1) a CV, and
2) a letter of intent stating an interest in joining the INTAD faculty and highlighting relevant qualifications. - Contact Melanie Miller Foster at mjm727@psu.edu with questions.
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
- Agribusiness Management Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
- Global food and agricultural markets
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Email dga2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8630
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
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
- Email talter@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8640
- 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 Water Resources
- Co-hire, Institutes of Energy & the Environment
- 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
- Spatial 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
- Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BRS Graduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Bioenergy
- Biomass Energy Systems
- Thermochemical Conversion
- Energy Efficiency
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Solar Energy Resource Evaluation
- Email dec109@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3484
- Professor of Food Science
- Assistant Director of Food Safety & Quality Programs
- Food Safety Extension Specialist - Muscle Foods
Areas of Expertise
- Food safety
- Food microbiology
- Foodborne pathogens
- Antimicrobials
- Edible films
- Spoilage
- Meat, poultry, seafood, muscle foods
- HACCP
- Sanitation
- Associate Professor of Pedology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Email pjd7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4246
- Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics
Areas of Expertise
- No-tillage
- Cover crops
- Soil compaction
- Soil health
- Soil erosion
- Soil conservation
- Nitrogen fixation
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Field Crop Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated management of field crop diseases
- Plant disease epidemiology
- Statistical methods for the agricultural sciences
- Email pde6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0680
- Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources
Areas of Expertise
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- Forest Regeneration
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Email fj4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0402
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture
- School-based agricultural education
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Email llg13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8636
- Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
- Director of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Areas of Expertise
- Food Systems Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Regional Economics and Policy
- Email sgoetz@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4664
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Email cgrady@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9434
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
- Program Chair, Graduate Certificate Sensory & Consumer Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory Science
- Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
- Sensometrics
- Sensory-assisted Breeding
- Trace Analysis
- Food Packaging
- Email hxh83@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5572
- Pronouns She/Her
- Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural Competence
- Email pdi1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7439
- 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
- Email mgj2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3994
- 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
- Associate Professor
- Coordinator and Adviser of the Minor in Plant Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Population biology
- Ecology of plant-associated microorganisms
- Fusarium and Verticillium wilts
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Email msk15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7871
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial Food Safety
- Foodborne Pathogens
- Genomic Epidemiology
- Microbiomes in Food Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Email jzk303@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2883
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Mycotoxins
- Endophytes
- Fusarium
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal secondary metabolites
- Agricultural biosecurity
- Professor of International Affairs and Affiliate Law Faculty
- Email fll10@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2238
- Research Professor of Plant Biotechnology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Biotechnology
- Plant Functional Genomics
- Plant Tissue Culture
- Plant Propagation
- Plant Disease Resistance
- Plant – Microbes Interactions
- Professor of Education (Adult Education)
- Email esp150@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0597
- Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Program Development
- Program Evaluation
- Research Methods
- International Agricultural Development
- Professor of Entomology and IPM Coordinator
- Email uvu@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4641
- Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Gender and Agriculture
- Women Farmers
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Gender and Climate Change
- 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
- Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect ecology
- Plant-insect interactions
- Conservation biological control
- Chemical ecology
- Gall insects
- Email tooker@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7082
- Professor of Soil Science / Soil Physics / Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Emerging Contaminants
- Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Contaminant Transport Modeling
- Soil and Water Quality
- Associate Professor of Youth and International Development and African Studies
- Director of the Youth Civic Lab
- Affiliations:
- African Studies (College of Liberal Arts)
- Comparative and International Education (College of Education)
Areas of Expertise
- Youth civic engagement
- Community engagement and social change
- International community development
- Email nsw10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2695
- Pronouns She/Her
- Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Extension Education
- Professor Emeritus of Extension Education
- Head and Professor of Geography
- Email ksz2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3094
INTAD
Address
Melanie Miller Foster106 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802
- Email mjm727@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0249
- Fax 814-865-3055
INTAD
Address
Melanie Miller Foster106 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802
- Email mjm727@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0249
- Fax 814-865-3055
