Overview – p. 1
Overview
Saturday, August 6
5:00 pm –
8:00 pm
Off-site
Executive Committee Meeting
Sunday, August 7
8:30 am –
4:30 pm
York A & B
RSS Council Meeting
9:00 am –
12:00 pm
Salon 1
Innovative research methods for rural sociologists
A workshop by Brian Thiede, Louisiana State University
(Registered participants only)
Optional Lunch for Participants in Methods Workshops
12:00 pm –
1:00 pm
1:00 pm –
4:00 pm
Salon 1
How survey methods are changing
A workshop by Don Dillman, Washington State
University
(Registered participants only)
6:00 pm –
7:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
A&B
Presidential Address
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Presidential Reception
9:00 pm –
10:00 pm
Presidential Suite
Presidential Reception for Graduate Students
12:00 pm –
Conference
Level
Registration (open during presidential address)
1
Overview – p. 2
8:00 pm
Monday, August 8
7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Concurrent Sessions
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Grand Ballroom A Plenary: David Grusky, Stanford University
&B
Is There Anything Money Can’t Buy? The
Commodification of the World and How it’s Changing
Poverty, Inequality, and Everything Else
2nd Annual Speed-Networking Event for Graduate
Students
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
1:45 pm –
3:15 pm
Grand Ballroom A RIG plenary: How the RSS addresses social class in 60
&B
minutes
Concurrent Sessions
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
5:00 pm –
6:45 pm
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings
Department Night at the Hockey Hall of Fame
(All meeting registrants are welcome!!)
2
Overview – p. 3
Tuesday, August 9
7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Poster Session
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm –
1:45 pm
Grand Ballroom A Awards Luncheon
&B
(All meeting registrants are welcome!!)
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Trinity II
Featured Panel and Discussion: The Intersection of
Land/Water Rights and Race/Ethnicity in Canada
Sponsored by RSS Diversity Committee
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions
5:00 pm –
6:00 pm
RSS Business Meeting
6:00 pm –
7:45 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings
3
Overview – p. 4
Wednesday, August 10
7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Concurrent Sessions
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm –
2:30 pm
4:00 pm –
5:30 pm
Dundas
RSS Council Meeting
IRSA Opening Keynote Address:
Envisioning real utopias: Possibilities for rural change
Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:30 pm
IRSA Reception
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Detailed Agenda
Saturday, August 6
5:00 pm –
8:00 pm
Off-site
Executive Committee Meeting
Sunday, August 7
8:30 am –
4:30 pm
York A & B
RSS Council Meeting
12:00 pm –
8:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
9:00 am –
12:00 pm
Salon 1
Innovative Research Methods for Rural Sociologists
A workshop by Brian Thiede, Louisiana State University
(Registered participants only)
This workshop will provide participants with insight into a set
of innovative research methods useful for rural sociologists.
Topics include computer-based qualitative analysis, spatial
analysis, and approaches to integrating environmental and
social data. Leading practitioners of these methods will
provide an overview of each approach and demonstrate
potential applications. The overall goal is to provide
workshop participants with basic technical details and ideas
for applying these innovative methods in their own research.
Computer-based qualitative analysis
April Gunsallus, Pennsylvania State University
Spatial analysis
Scott Sanders, Brigham Young University
Integrating environmental and social data
Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State University
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Optional Lunch for Participants in Methods Workshops
12:00 pm –
1:00 pm
1:00 pm –
4:00 pm
Salon 1
How Survey Methods are Changing
A workshop by Don Dillman, Washington State
University
(Registered participants only)
Don Dillman will present a half-day workshop on new ways
of conducting sample surveys. The emphasis will be on
household surveys, using postal address-based sampling
methods in a way that incorporates a “push” to respond
over the web with a paper questionnaire follow-up. Much
of his research during the past decade has been on
developing and testing the use of such methods. The need
for these methods stems in part from the rapid decline in
adequacy of telephone survey methods combined with an
inability to rely on email-only contact methods to seek a
web response because of coverage and response
problems. His discussion of data collection methods builds
upon the 4th edition of his book, “Internet, Phone, Mail and
Mixed-mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method”
(Dillman, Smyth and Christian, 2014).
6:00 pm –
7:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
A&B
Presidential Address
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Presidential Reception
9:00 pm –
10:00 pm
Presidential Suite
Presidential Reception for Graduate Students
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Monday, August 8
7:00 am –
7:45 am
York A
Awards and Endowment Committee
7:00 am –
7:45 am
York B
Development Committee
7:00 am –
7:45 am
Bay
Diversity Committee
7:00 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity I
Patterns of Rural Mortality and Disability
Sponsored by: Population RIG
Moderator: Brian Thiede, Louisiana State University
Defining regions and understanding rurality: Exploring
spatial variations in American mortality
Jeralynn S. Cossman, West Virginia State University
Julia K. Wolf, West Virginia University
Douglas J. Myers, West Virginia University
Rural/urban differences in U.S. drug overdose
mortality rates
Shannon Monnat, Pennsylvania State University
Suicide, rurality and social hierarchy: The unequal
effect of rural lifestyle
Nicolas D. Deffontaines, Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique
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Why more there than elsewhere? Explaining southern
and nonmetro rural disability rates with migration or
something else?
E. Helen Berry, Utah State University
Christiane von Reichert, University of Montana
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity II
Academic Leadership: A Panel Discussion of the
Challenges & Opportunities
Organized by: Jeff Sharp, Ohio State University
Panel members:
Louis Swanson, Vice President for Engagement, former
Department Chair, Colorado State University
Ann Tickamyer, Department Head, Pennsylvania State
University and Chair, Ohio University
Paul Lasley, former Department Chair, Iowa State
University
Ray Jussaume, Department Chair, Michigan State
University and former Department Chair Washington
State University
Jeff Sharp, School Director, Ohio State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity III
Rural Housing Matters I: Issues and Challenges
Sponsored by: Rural Poverty RIG
Moderator: Lance George, Housing Assistance
Council – Washington, DC
Workforce housing: Linking economic development
and national housing goals
Ann Ziebarth, University of Minnesota
8
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"Trash" talk: An historical perspective on discourses of
contamination and the way we talk about mobile
home parks in America
Katie Founds, University of Kentucky
The mobile-home industrial complex and a stalled
housing dream for the rural poor
Sonya Salamon, University of Illinois
Kate MacTavish, Oregon State University
When it all started: Taking a life course perspective on
rural homelessness
Kate MacTavish, Oregon State University
Brenda Barrett-Rivera, Oregon State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity IV
Development Programs and Rural Communities,
Environment, and Health
Sponsored by: International Development RIG
Moderator: Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State
University
The human right to water and sanitation: Assessing the
opportunities and potential pitfalls
Stephen P. Gasteyer, Michigan State University
A cross-national SEM analysis of geographical,
institutional, and agricultural systems as determinants
of food insecurity and obesity
Edward L. Kick, North Carolina State University
Laura McKinney, Tulane University
Analysis of local governance transition in land
expropriation conflicts of China
Meng Hongbin, Shaanxi Normal University
9
Detailed Agenda Tue Aug 9 – p. 10
Primitive accumulation, tribal politics and ethnic crisis
in Nigeria: Where is the gap and the compromise
Ajuzie Godson Chidiebere, University of Benin
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity V
Rural Minority Access to Social and Occupational
Networks
Sponsored by: Rural Racial and Ethnic Minorities RIG
Moderator: Mark Harvey, Florida Atlantic University
Socio-cultural factors and the underrepresentation of
racial minorities in the subfield of large animal
veterinarians: A multivariate analysis
Billy Brocato, Texas A&M University
William A. McIntosh, Texas A&M University.
Immigrant assimilation in new destinations: Co- and
inter-ethnic networks of informal work in rural Oregon
Emily J. Wornell, Pennsylvania State University.
Reimagining the rural immigrant in western Canada
Kyler C. Zeleny, York University and Ryerson University.
“Ready, set, grow a business”: Latino entrepreneur
training in rural Washington
José Luis García-Pabón, Washington State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Bay
Climate Change Issues in Rural Spaces
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Adam K. Wilke, Iowa State University
The influence of place-specific social and biophysical
vulnerability on farmers’ climate change-related risk
perceptions: Evidence from Iowa, USA
10
Detailed Agenda Tue Aug 9 – p. 11
Maaz Gardezi, Iowa State University
J. G. Arbuckle Jr., Iowa State University
Moving communities to avoid sea level rise: The role
of local planning
Karen M. O'Neill, Rutgers University
Heather Fenyk, Rutgers University
Climate change, storm water, and rural roadside ditch
management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Sara Reynolds Davis, Cornell University
Rebecca L. Schneider, Cornell University
Nature as museum: How socially-referenced time
influences perceptions of environmental stability
Adam K. Wilke, Iowa State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
York A
Local Food Networks, Market Access, and Direct
Markets
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Spencer Wood, Kansas State University
The calculus of local sourcing: Lessons learned from
farm-to-restaurant networks in Central Pennsylvania
Elyzabeth Engle, Pennsylvania State University
Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
The role of emerging farmers’ personal networks in
market access and start-up farm success
Christian Scott, Michigan State University
Rural development and local food systems in the
Midwest: From informal economy to community
capitals investment
11
Detailed Agenda Tue Aug 9 – p. 12
Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri
“Welcome to the farm”: Agritourism and the reduction
of social distance between the farm and the non-farm
population in France
Alexis J. Annes, Université Toulouse, INP-Ecole
d'Ingénieurs de Purpan, France
Jacinthe Bessiere, Université Toulouse Jean Jaures,
CERTOP – ISTHIA, France
Growing a farm-to-school program: The story of good
food for Oxford schools
Eleanor M. Green, Oxford School District
John J. Green, University of Mississippi
Sunny Young Baker, Mississippi Farm to School Network
Mary Elizabeth Smithson, FoodCorps
Ansley Lance, University of Mississippi
8:00 am –
9:15 am
York B
The Amish in the Rural U.S.
Organized by: Cory Anderson, Truman State University
Barriers Amish farmers perceive in adopting
conservation practices
Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, South Dakota State University
Caroline Brock, University of Missouri
Linda Prokopy, Purdue University
The Amish: Coming to a rural area near you?
Forecasting potential sites of new Amish settlement
using GIS
Cory Anderson, Truman State University
Rachel Bacon, Pennsylvania State University
Amish population and settlement growth
Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University
Cory Anderson, Truman State University
12
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Building social solidarity through visiting practices in
the Amish community
Rachel E. Stein, West Virginia University
Corey J. Colyer, West Virginia University
Reviving the demographic study of the Amish
Corey J. Colyer, West Virginia University
Elizabeth Cooksey, Ohio State University
Samson Wasao, Independent Researcher
Rachel E. Stein, West Virginia University
Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University
9:15 am –
9:30 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity I
Gender, Class, and Development
Sponsored by: International Development RIG
Moderator: Anne Cafer, University of Missouri
Gender mainstreaming and indigenous inclusion in
REDD+ in Indonesia
Emily J. Wornell, Pennsylvania State University
Ann R. Tickamyer, Pennsylvania State University
Siti Kusujiarti, Warren Wilson College
Engendering and differentiating Ugandan rural
development: Livelihood pathways and trajectories in
interaction with the integrated cooperative model
JoAnn Jaffe, University of Regina
Bernard Obaa, Makerere University
Fair trade, flower workers, and women’s empowerment
Laura T. Raynolds, Colorado State University
13
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We work, you exploit: A case study of Pembillai Orumai
Shubha Srishti, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Guru Ratnam, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Heritage of the peasantry framework to address rural
development and its application in Colombia
Fabio Alberto Pachon Ariza, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia
Wolfgang Bokelmann, Humboldt University of Berlin
Cesar Adrian Ramirez Miranda, Universidad de
Chapingo
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity II
Enhancing Community Capacity & Vitality
Sponsored by: Youth Education and Rural Vitality RIG
Moderator: John W. Sipple, Cornell University
Higher education as a vehicle of regional
development in Iceland
Thoroddur Bjarnason, University of Akureyri, Iceland
Exploring gender differences in the outcomes of Costa
Rica’s conditional cash transfer program, Avancemos
Paige Castellanos, Pennsylvania State University
The varying capacity of communities to care for and
educate young children
John W. Sipple, Cornell University
Hope G. Casto, Skidmore College
Young adult residential mobility and the growth
machine: Influences of property tax rates and local
education spending on population composition and
change across Wisconsin places, 1990-2010
14
Detailed Agenda Tue Aug 9 – p. 15
Todd Flournoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Opting out of education reform in New York: Rural
district participation in the Opt Out movement
Selene M. Cammer-Bechtold, Syracuse University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity III
Rural Housing Matters II: Local Solutions and Promising
Policies
Sponsored by: Rural Poverty RIG
Moderator: Ann Ziebarth, University of Minnesota
Adapting Housing First approaches to rural youth
Stephen Geatz, York University and the Homeless Hub,
Toronto, Canada
The Community Reinvestment Act and the Duty to
Serve Rule
Lance George, Housing Assistance CouncilWashington, DC
Leveraging local capacity to meet housing needs in
rural and small towns
Kim Skobba, University of Georgia
Karen Tinsley, University of Georgia
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity IV
Disparities in healthcare access: Effects on health,
mental health, and substance abuse
Sponsored by: Community, Family, and Health RIG
Moderator: Stephanie Teixeira-Poit, RTI International
Role of a community health needs assessment in rural
development using Pike County as a case study
Akinwale S. Akingbule, Western Illinois University
15
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Chikodili F. Obi, Western Illinois University
Cynthia B. Struthers, Western Illinois University
Home birth midwifery in rural areas of the US: Evidence
from Pennsylvania
Meredith P. Field, Pennsylvania State University
The effect of contraception-related policy on
Microcephaly and Zika preparedness
Matthew L. Kearney, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neighborhood context of mental health and substance
use in rural America
Weiwei Zhang, South Dakota State University
Public stigma vs. access: Understanding how
community perceptions of mental health and access
to care affect mental wellbeing
Scott Sanders, Brigham Young University
Matthew L. McKnight, Syracuse University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity V
Space and Unequal Exposure to Environmental
Problems
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Pierce Greenberg, Washington State
University
Disproportionality and resource-based environmental
inequality: An analysis of neighborhood proximity to
coal impoundments in Appalachia
Pierce Greenberg, Washington State University
A geospatial analysis of landfills and disasters in the
Black Belt South
16
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Laura McKinney, Tulane University
Ryan Thomson, University of Florida
Direct effects of poverty, race, and gender on landfill
presence across the contiguous United States
Clare Cannon, Tulane University
Coal mining, the gas/oil industry and income
inequality: The United States and Appalachia 19902010
Linda Lobao, Ohio State University
Mark Partridge, Ohio State University
Michael Betz, Ohio State University
Minyu Zhou, Discover Financial Services
Understanding human vulnerability and resilience
following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: A multipronged agenda
Tim Slack, Louisiana State University
Jaishree Beedasy, Columbia University
Matthew R. Lee, Louisiana State University
Thomas C. Chandler, Columbia University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Bay
Agro-ecology and Sustainability
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Douglas Jackson-Smith, Utah State
University
Exploring social outputs in agro-ecological research
Matthew R. Porter, Ohio State University
Orwellian doublespeak: The discourse and practice of
sustainable intensification
Douglas Constance, Sam Houston State University
17
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Agro-ecology and intersectionality: Land use practices
through the lens of gender, ethnicity, and class
Maria Van Der Maaten, Iowa State University
Spatial distribution of sustainable agriculture and its
underlying community correlates
Hui-Ju Kuo, Academia Sinica
Agro-ecology and the role of science in the
repeasantization movements of the South
Ana Luiza de Campos Paula, Kansas State University
Spencer Wood, Kansas State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
York A
Research and Outreach with Hard-to-Reach
Populations: Experiences, Approaches and Best
Practices
Organized by: José García-Pabón, Washington State
University
Panel members:
Vanessa Parks, Louisiana State University
Ian Burfoot-Rochford, Pennsylvania State University
Loka Ashwood, Auburn University
José García-Pabón, Washington State University
Break
10:45 am –
11:00 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Grand Ballroom A Plenary: David Grusky, Stanford University
&B
Is There Anything Money Can’t Buy? The
Commodification of the World and How It’s Changing
Poverty, Inequality, and Everything Else
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Lunch Break (on your own)
12:15 pm –
1:45 pm
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Trinity I
2nd Annual Speed-Networking Event for Graduate
Students
Lunch provided
1:45 pm –
3:15 pm
Grand Ballroom A RIG Plenary: How the RSS Addresses Social Class in 60
&B
Minutes
Moderators:
Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
David Grusky, Stanford University
Linda Lobao, Ohio State University
3:15 pm –
3:45 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity I
Obesity as Outcome in Health Studies: Problems and
Implications
Organized by: Elizabeth Seale, State University of New
York College at Oneonta
Panel members:
Darlene McNoughton, Flinders University
Jennifer Kuk, York University
William A. McIntosh, Texas A&M University
Jin Young Choi, Sam Houston State University
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity II
Gender and Rural Field Research
Organized by:
Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University
Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University
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Panel members:
Mark Harvey, Florida Atlantic University
Alison Kanosky, Lehigh University
Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University
Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University
Emily J. Wornell, Pennsylvania State University
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity III
Research and Praxis of Public/Community
Engagement
Sponsored by: NRRG
Organized by:
Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Jessica Ulrich-Schad, South Dakota State University
Panel members:
Loka Ashwood, Auburn University
Richelle L. Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Tom Beckley, University of New Brunswick
Beth Walter Honadle, National Institute of Food and
Agriculture
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity IV
Responses to and Implications of Oil and Gas
Development
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Curtis W. Stofferahn, University of North
Dakota
Public perception of the oil and gas industry in North
Dakota: Implications for regulation and messaging
Curtis W. Stofferahn, University of North Dakota
Cordell A. Fontaine, University of North Dakota
Donald Morrison, Dakota Resource Council
20
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No Bakken here! Connecting rural controversy and
global justice
Angie Carter, Augustana College
Ahna Kruzic, Iowa State University
A drill by any other name: Legacies of natural
resource extraction and modern hydraulic fracturing
Dylan Bugden, Cornell University
Darrick Evensen, Cardiff University
Richard Stedman, Cornell University
The role of multi-state river basin commissions in shale
gas governance systems: A comparative analysis of
the Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin
Commissions in the Marcellus Shale Region
Grace Wildermuth, Pennsylvania State University
John Dzwonczyk, United States Military Academy
Kathryn Brasier, Pennsylvania State University
A tale of two states: Exploring state responses to
“fracking” in New York and Pennsylvania
Damayanti Banerjee, Colorado State University
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity V
Who Drives Value Chains? A Look at Cooperatives,
Global Trade, and Research Networks
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Norah MacKendrick, Rutgers University
Californication of the Korean rice market? Shifting
strategic action fields
Larry Burmeister, Ohio University
Global meat: Trends in production, consumption, and
21
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trade in the world economy, 1960-2015
Bill Winders, Georgia Tech
Elizabeth Ransom, University of Richmond
Biofuels in the age of $30 oil: Multiple motivations for
growing alternative fuel crops
Cornelia B. Flora, Kansas State University
Joseph Jakubek, Kansas State University
Governing sustainable transactions: Empowered
participatory governance in a large agri-food value
chain
Tal Yifat, University of Chicago
A local/global and tension critique of member
satisfaction studies of U.S. dairy cooperatives: A
meta-analysis of four traditional technical assistance
projects
Thomas W. Gray, USDA-RD-Cooperative Programs &
Co-op Center, University of Saskatchewan
Carolyn Liebrand, USDA-AMS
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Bay
Race and Ethnicity in Rural Places
Sponsored by: Population RIG
Moderator: Brian Thiede, Louisiana State University
The racial and ethnic transformation of rural and small
town America: Who stays and who leaves?
Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
Domenico Parisi, Mississippi State University
Michael C. Taquino, Mississippi State University
The impact of Hispanic and non-Hispanic
demographic components of change to the growing
diversity of the U.S. population in nonmetropolitan and
22
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metropolitan America
Kenneth Johnson, University of New Hampshire
Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
Acceptance of immigrants in out-state versus metro
areas: The role of race and ethnicity
Ann Finan, St. Cloud State University
Sandrine Zerbib, St. Cloud State University
Inequality in farmworker wages: Race, space, and
legal status
Jazz Glastra, Ohio State University
5:00 pm –
5:45 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings
Natural Resources RIG
Applied and Extension RIG
Community, Health and Family RIG
5:45 pm –
6:30 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings
Rural Poverty RIG
Rural Gender RIG
Rural Racial and Ethnic Minorities RIG
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
Department Night at the Hockey Hall of Fame
(All meeting registrants are welcome!!)
23
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Tuesday, August 9
7:00 am –
7:45 am
York A
Membership Committee
7:00 am –
7:45 am
York B
Publications Committee
7:00 am –
7:45 am
Simcoe
Nominations Committee
7:00 am –
7:45 am
Bay
RIG Chairs
7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Poster Session
Award Judges:
Eddy Berry, Leif Jensen, Tom Rudel, Aysha
Bodenhamer, and Raeven Chandler
A plate waste evaluation of the Farm to School
Program in Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS),
Florida
Saul J. Abarca-Orozco, University of Florida
Jaclyn D. Kropp, University of Florida
Halil I. Sari, University of Florida
Glenn D. Israel, University of Florida
Karla P. Shelnutt, University of Florida
Classifying nonmetro counties by age-specific net
migration patterns
24
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Miranda N. Aho, Michigan Technological University
Richelle L. Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Kenneth M. Johnson, University of New Hampshire
Rural recreation infrastructure sustainability and
effects on population retention and in-migration in
South West Manitoba
Michael Blatherwick, Brandon University
It’s bittersweet: Examining the potential for classunique expressions of community attachment
Rachel M. Brown-Weinstock, Syracuse University
Land-use conflicts, policies, and program restructuring
in agricultural research institutions: The case of the
University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment
Station
Vivian Carro-Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico
Health food access through evidence-based
intervention
Darren R. Chapman, University of Missouri
Urban bane and rural boon: Internet diffusion and
newspaper resilience
Nicholas Garcia, Ohio State University
The relationship between resource changes and
health status in rural Arkansas families
Betsy Garrison, University of Arkansas
Tim Killian, University of Arkansas
Zola K. Moon, University of Arkansas
Kelly A. Way, University of Arkansas
Misusing metrics: Journal impact factors and the
25
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place of the social sciences in modern universities
Jere L. Gilles, University of Missouri
Carol J. Gilles, University of Missouri
Erin Small, University of Missouri
Exploration of resource-dependency in Kentucky’s
Appalachian Region
Buddhi R. Gyawali, Kentucky State University
Jeremy Sandifer, Kentucky State University
Cynthia Rice, Kentucky State University
Andrew Gott, Kentucky State University
Ken Bates, Kentucky State University
Planted truth: The lived experience of rural food
insecurity
Mary Ana McKay, Ohio State University
Food hub models and societal impact
Alagi Patel, Kansas State University
Challenges to diversifying a local economy: An
Appalachian Kentucky community case study
Shaunna L. Scott, University of Kentucky
Jared Friesen, University of Kentucky
Regional sustainable agriculture: Who’s in the network
and what does sustainability mean to them?
Kathryn A. Stofer, University of Florida
Heather Keown, University of Florida
Working for a healthy watershed: The Raccoon River
Watershed Association
Michael Delaney, Des Moines Area Community
College
Cornelia B. Flora, Kansas State University
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Bioenergy experts and their Imagined Publics:
Implications for public participation and dialogue
Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Morey Burnham, State University of New York
Environmental Science and Forestry
Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
9:15 am –
9:30 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity I
Agricultural Transitions and Land Use
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Ray Jussaume, Michigan State University
Gentrification in a Scottish Parish: Implications for
landscape change
Lee-Ann Sutherland, James Hutton Institute
Gentrification of British agriculture
Lee-Ann Sutherland, James Hutton Institute
Agrarian question in India: Some indications from
NSSO's 70th Round
C. R. Yadu, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala
Satheesha B, Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi
Agricultural production in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The
implications of land use, sociodemographic changes,
and economic development
Guangqing Chi, Pennsylvania State University
Annelise Hagedorn, Pennsylvania State University
Donghui Wang, Pennsylvania State University
Kamilya Kelgenbaeva, South Dakota State University
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Geoffrey Henebry, South Dakota State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity II
Rural Poverty in the U.S.A.: Panel Discussion of
Forthcoming Text
Organized by:
Ann R Tickamyer, Pennsylvania State University
Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University
Panel members (will include selected editors and
authors):
Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University
Ann Tickamyer, Pennsylvania State University
Mark Harvey, Florida Atlantic University
Shannon Monnat, Pennsylvania State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity III
Community Development, Resource Policy, and the
Politics of Rural Representation
Sponsored by: Rural Policy RIG
Moderator: Rhianna Williams, Michigan Technological
University
Complicating the “rural” in Oregon’s water policy
making
Misty Freeman, Oregon State University
Change of living style in the face of ecological
deterioration in pure pastoral areas: A case study in
the marginal region of Tengger Desert in China
Liang Yushu, Tsinghua University
Ideas Trump structured policy: The role of rural
ideology and ideal interests in the 2016 presidential
election
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Joseph Jakubek, Kansas State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity IV
Environmental Issues, Organizational Responses, and
Social Movements
Sponsored by: NRRG and Rural Gender RIG
Moderator: Daisy Rooks, University of Montana
Negotiating the rural landscape: Understanding the
dynamics of labor-environmental coalitions in the
rural West
Daisy Rooks, University of Montana
Diane Matthews, University of Montana
Analyzing organizational persistence among North
Carolina environmental organizations
Adam R. Driscoll, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Bob Edwards, East Carolina University
The influence of centralized stakeholders on mapping
environmental problems and social conflicts in rural
communities of Uruguay
Diego Thompson, Middlebury College
Social drivers of water utility privatization in the United
States: An examination of the presence of variegated
neoliberal strategies in the water utility sector
Patrick Trent Greiner, University of Oregon
Examining the social construction of environment and
justice in rural communities: Company towns and
class
Michelle Larkins, Michigan State University
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9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity V
Food for All? Equity in Food Access, Labor, and Urban
Agriculture
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Douglas Constance, Sam Houston State
University
Addressing the root causes of hunger: The evolving
role of emergency food provisioning
J. Dara Bloom, North Carolina State University
Sarah K. Bowen, North Carolina State University
Making markets fair: Challenges from farmers’
perspectives
Sarah K. Bowen, North Carolina State University
J. Dara Bloom, North Carolina State University
Michele Scott, North Carolina State
Molly Lutton, Rural Advancement Foundation
International
“Good” farming in the city? Examining civic and
productivist values in Denver, CO
James Hale, Colorado State University
Revitalizing communities with gardens: Is it always
rosy?
Thelma I. Velez, Ohio State University
Marisol Becerra, Ohio State University
Kerry Ard, Ohio State University
Food policy councils in North America: Structures,
survival, and success
Laura A. DiGiulio, Ohio State University
Jeff Sharp, Ohio State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Bay
Author Meets Critics: The Rise of Women Farmers and
Sustainable Agriculture
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Authors:
Carolyn Sachs, Pennsylvania State University;
Mary Barbercheck, Pennsylvania State University;
Kathryn Brasier, Pennsylvania State University;
Nancy Ellen Kiernan, Pennsylvania State University;
Rachel Terman, Ohio University
Panel members:
Peg Petrzelka, Utah State University
Angie Carter, Augustana College
Meredith Redlin, South Dakota State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
York A
Gentrification, Segregation, and Health: Examining the
Role of Class, Race, and Ethnicity
Sponsored by: Community, Family, and Health RIG
Moderator: Aysha Bodenhamer, North Carolina State
University
Rural gentrification and asset-based theorisations of
class: An international comparative analysis
Martin Phillips, University of Leicester
Weight and race: The effects of race and racial
segregation on childhood obesity
Joy R. Piontak, Duke University
Michael D. Schulman, North Carolina State University
Language, insurance, acculturation and other factors
affecting healthcare access among Latinos in the
state of Missouri
Maria E. Rodriguez-Alcalá University of Missouri
Stephen C. Jeanetta, University of Missouri
Staiculescu C. Ioana, University of Missouri
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A Kuhnian anomaly and a new theory that explains it
Frank W. Young, Cornell University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
York B
Rural Communities, Racial Histories, and Schools: Why
They Matter
Organized by:
Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality RIG and the
Community and Health RIG
Moderator: Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University
Featured Speaker: Mara Tieken, Bates College
Discussants:
Selene Cammer-Bechtold, Syracuse University
Sheneka Williams, University of Georgia
John W. Sipple, Cornell University
10:45 am –
11:00 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity I
The State, Market, and Labor in International
Agriculture
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Keith Moore, Virginia Tech University
Changing roles of the State, multinational
corporations, and coffee cooperatives: The case of
rural producers in Veracruz, Mexico
Saul J. Abarca-Orozco, University of Florida
Robert E. Mazur, Iowa State University
Jan L. Flora, Iowa State University
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Persistence under a corporate food regime:
Expansion of industrial maize and simple commodity
production in Turkey
Yetkin Borlu, Pennsylvania State University
The making of distinction: How the transformation of
traditional tea industry shapes social stratification in
Tongmu Village in Wuyi Mountains, China
Huaqing Huang, Tsinghua University
Zhekun Xiong, Tsinghua University
When farm work disappears: Labor and environmental
change in the Brazilian sugar-energy industry
Ian Carrillo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity II
Community and Belonging in Local Discourses of Rural
Poverty
Sponsored by: Rural Poverty RIG
Moderator: Chelsea Schelly, Michigan State University
“Intersectional space,” rural industries, and the
changing nature of employment
Debarashmi Mitra, Central New Mexico Community
College
Early childhood education as a spur to rural social
cohesion
Eric Freeman, Wichita State University
The rural food pantry experience: Exploring ways to
reduce stigma, create community, and enhance
access to fresh foods
Rayna Sage, Washington State University
Mackenzie Selleg, Washington State University
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Meaghan Logan, Washington State University
Identity and meaning-making of clinical nurses in
rural Northern Missouri
Elizabeth Bent, University of Missouri
Hometown community attachment among physician
assistant students
Anjel N. Stough-Hunter, Ohio Dominican University
Kristi S. Lekies, Ohio State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity III
Sustainable Issue Framing and Decision-Making
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Casey Strange, North Carolina State
University
Household agents of modernity and natural resource
depletion in rural communities in Nigeria
Muyiwa Oladosun, Covenant University
Adebanke Olawole-Isaac, Covenant University
Exploring agro-ecology through mental models
Katrin Prager, James Hutton Institute
Repairing the university: Sustainability, structure, and
change
Christopher R. Henke, Colgate University
Watershed stories: Grassroots efforts reframing water
pollution polarization
Angie Carter, Augustana College
Framing the Monarch Butterfly
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Casey Strange, North Carolina State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity IV
Author Meets Critics: "Concentration and Power in the
Food System"
Author: Philip Howard, Michigan State University
Panel members:
Bill Winders, Georgia Tech
Michael Gertler, University of Saskatchewan
JoAnn Jaffe, University of Regina
Amy Guptill, State University of New York at Brockport
Kathryn P. De Master, University of California-Berkeley
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Bay
Rural Gender and Health
Sponsored by: Rural Gender RIG
Moderator: E. Helen Berry, Utah State University
The privilege of choice: Home birthers’ lived
experiences in mid-Missouri
Amanda M. Carr, University of Missouri
Access to health care among older rural women
veterans in Utah
Carol J. Ward, Brigham Young University
Michael Cope, Brigham Young University
Rural and urban differences in utilization of Long Acting
Reversible Contraception (LARC) methods
Noelia P. Flores, University of Texas at San Antonio
Gender, sexuality, and the social construction of
communities in Appalachia
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Rachel Terman, Ohio University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
York A
Critical Views of International Development Models:
Students' Perspectives
Sponsored by: International Development RIG
Organized by:
John J. Green, University of Mississippi
Cornelia B. Flora, Kansas State University
Panel members:
Janet Smith, Cornell University
Anne Cafer, University of Missouri
Hector Bombiella Medina, Iowa State University
Mayra O. Sanchez Gonzalez, Michigan Technological
University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
York B
Extractive and Energy Industries, Inequality, and
Social Responses
Sponsored by: NRRG
Organized by:
Jessica Ulrich-Schad, South Dakota State University
Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Contested environmental illness and elite resistance:
The case of Black Lung
Aysha Bodenhamer, North Carolina State University
Employment and compensation in the Marcellus
Shale gas boom: What stays local?
Mark Suchyta, Michigan State University
Using qualitative comparative analysis to capture
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community context in natural resource social science
Hua Qin, University of Missouri-Columbia
Yubing Fan, University of Missouri-Columbia
Andrea Tappmeyer, University of Missouri-Columbia
Elizabeth Prentice, University of Missouri-Columbia
Kathlee Freeman, University of Missouri-Columbia
Xinyu Gao, Hohai University
The effects of participatory natural resource
management (NRM) on community resilience and
vulnerability in Africa: A think piece for future research
Aby Sene-Harper, Texas A&M University
Mechanisms of shared benefit in community level
wind energy acceptance: Bringing community back
in to renewable energy policy
Keith Taylor, The Ostrom Workshop at Indiana
University
12:30 pm –
1:45 pm
Grand Ballroom A Awards Luncheon
&B
All registered participants welcome!
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Trinity II
Featured Panel and Discussion: The Intersection of
Land/Water Rights and Race/Ethnicity in Canada
Indigenous Activism and Water: The Délįnegotine,
Self-Government and Environmental Governance
Organized by: RSS Diversity Committee
Moderators: Doug Constance, Sam Houston State
University; Cornelia Flora, Iowa State University
In this panel presentation we situate First Nations
community-driven political action arising from the WWII and
post-WWII history of Great Bear Lake uranium mining and
subsequent human health impacts, in the current
stewardship of Great Bear Lake and Community SelfGovernment in Délįne, Northwest Territories. Living within a
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legacy of lost Aboriginal Elders due to cancer from uranium
mining (“Village of Widows”), the Délįnegotine, or people
of Great Bear Lake have, over the past 25 years, carefully
utilized the Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land
Claim Agreement to challenge and rethink water
management practices. This approach led to the
development of the powerful Great Bear Lake Watershed
Management Plan. The watershed management plan is
based on oral histories and prophecy stories including ‘the
waterheart’, which fundamentally shift conventional
watershed planning processes. The significance of this
successful socio-cultural and political action is to
institutionalize a new space for culturally-appropriate and
community-driven management practices, such as the
Délįne Community Caribou Conservation Plan, which
counters government technocratic management
strategies.
Panel members:
Ken Caine, University of Alberta
Walter Bezha (Sahtugot’ı̨nę), Délįne, Northwest
Territories
Reception to follow in Trinity I
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Trinity III
Farmer Participation in, and Perceptions of,
Conservation Management
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Adam R. Driscoll, University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse
Knowledge of nitrogen and its impacts on nitrogen
management strategies among Midwestern corn
farmers
Riva Denny, Michigan State University
The road less travelled: Assessing the impacts of in38
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depth farmer and stakeholder participation in nitrate
pollution research
Douglas Jackson-Smith, Utah State University
Stephanie Ewing, Montana State University
Clain Jones, Montana State University
Adam Sigler, Montana State University
U.S. strawberry grower’s experiences with and
perceptions of biodegradable plastic mulch films
Courtney Lyons, Washington State University
Jessica Goldberger, Washington State University
The law’s farmer: A national analysis of preservation
and Right-to-Farm statutes
Loka Ashwood, Auburn University
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2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Trinity IV
Rural Community Assets, Networks and Youth
Aspirations
Sponsored by: Youth Education and Rural Vitality RIG
Moderator: Mara Tieken, Bates College
Are rural ecologies especially entrapping?
Comparison of low-income rural youth and urban
youth in terms of academic achievement and trends
towards poverty reversal
Keith J. Rinier, University of Rhode Island
Does Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction activity
affect aspirations of rural youth?
Diane K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University
Annelise D. Hagedorn, Pennsylvania State University
Donghui Wang, Pennsylvania State University
Rural youth perceptions of opportunities and migration
in Cambodia
David R. Ader, University of Tennessee Institute of
Agriculture
Youth participation in civic and social activism: An
international comparison
Meredith Redlin, South Dakota State University
Sport, recreation, and rural youth in context
Kyle Rich, Western University
Laura Misener, Western University
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Trinity V
Health Issues for Rural Women
Sponsored by: Population RIG
Moderator: Jamiko Deleveaux, University of Texas at
San Antonio
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Unintended pregnancy, nonmarital fertility, and access
to reproductive health care in rural America
April Sutton, Cornell University
Sharon Sassler, Cornell University
Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
Trends in reproductive inequalities in Cameroon (19912011)
Omar M. Ali, Cornell University
Rural/urban differences in women’s access and receipt
of recommended breast cancer screenings
Danielle M. Ely, Pennsylvania State University
Epigenetics and environmental sociology: Navigating
responsibility for the next generation’s genome
Kaelyn Wiles, Centre College
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
York A
Institutional Politics and Alternatives
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Vanessa Parks, Louisiana State University
Place-based politics and a politics of place: Urbanrural differences in political ideologies and voting
outcomes
Paige Kelly, Ohio State University
What’s place got to do with it? Differences in voting,
generalized social trust, and political trust for rural,
suburban, and urban citizens
Ryan G. Ceresola, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
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Northern Arizona’s climate frontier: Examining climate
change at the local level
David Flores, USDA Forest Service
Individualism and symbiosis: The dance at Dancing
Rabbit
Chelsea Schelly, Michigan Technological University
Viticulture as text: Dialogics of Central New York winegrape growing
Thomas F. Bechtold, Iowa State University
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
York B
Implications of Economic Policy to Rural Development
Sponsored by: Rural Policy RIG
Moderator: Amit Anshumali, Cornell University
The importance of social capital in economic
development projects: A case study from Central
Missouri
Rebecca Savoie, University of Missouri
Parijat Ghosh, University of Missouri
David O’Brian, University of Missouri
Public portfolio, community dividends: An
examination of where and how the federal
government invests three welfare state assets
Danielle Deemer, University of New Haven
Understanding inter-community conflict to building
construction in a rural, consolidated local education
agency
Michael Lotspeich II, University of Illinois-Springfield
Expenditures on children: Differences between rural
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and urban households
Mark Lino, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Bay
Responding to Challenges, Policy and Change in
Teaching Rural Sociology
Sponsored by: Teaching and Curriculum RIG
Moderator: Anjel N. Stough-Hunter, Ohio Dominican
University
Including undergraduate students in communityoriented research: What works and what doesn’t work
Jessica Crowe, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Teaching multivalent perspectives through active
learning in writing intensive courses: Offsetting
instructor workloads with strategic course design
Caroline Brock, University of Missouri
Ben Weikert, University of Missouri
Sarah Cramer, University of Missouri
Motivating the motivators: Teacher perceptions of the
Peruvian 2012 Teacher Career Law
Carolyn Reyes, Pennsylvania State University
The fate of the last of its kind: The future of rural
sociology education
Caroline Brock, University of Missouri
2:00 pm –
3:15 pm
Simcoe
Power in the Food System: Corporations’ and Public
Agencies’ Framing and Strategies
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Dara Bloom, North Carolina State
University
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Power, fairness and constrained choice in agricultural
markets: A synthesizing framework
Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri
Harvey S. James, Jr., University of Missouri
Cooptation of ag institutions by agribusiness
Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley University
Lynn England, Utah Valley University
The globalization of GM controversy: Are
incommensurable mental models affecting food
security?
Yassine Dguidegue, The University of Missouri
Mary Hendrickson, The University of Missouri
Regulatory regime selection: Shopping, shaping and
staying in the genetically modified corn seed industry
Annabel Ipsen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sustainable agriculture and the role of SARE: A
systematic review of granted research
Ana Luiza de Campos Paula, Kansas State University
Spencer Wood, Kansas State University
3:15 pm –
3:30 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity III
Incubator Farms and Educating Beginning Farmers
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Jessica Goldberger, Washington State
University
Beginning farmers and ranchers 2.0: Scaling up to
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profitability
Cindy Fake, University of California-Cooperative
Extension
Roger Ingram, University of California-Cooperative
Extension
Jim Muck, University of California-Cooperative
Extension
Molly Nakahara, University of California-Cooperative
Extension
Dan Macon, University of California-Davis
After the incubator: Factors impeding land access
along the path from farmworker to proprietor
Kathryn P. De Master, University of California-Berkeley
Adam Calo, University of California-Berkeley
Factors challenging Latino producers to pursue
sustainable farming and ranching production
methods in Missouri
Eleazar U. Gonzalez, University of Missouri
Nadia Navarrete-Tindall, Lincoln University of Missouri
Nexus between internal value chain finance and
cocoa production in Southwestern Nigeria: Impetus to
agricultural productivity and sustainability
Sunday Ogunjimi, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity IV
Environmental Issues and Quality of Life
Sponsored by: NRRG and Population RIG
Moderator: Omar M. Ali, Cornell University
Well-being from the field to the holler: Natural
resource dependency and health related quality of
life
Raeven Chandler, Pennsylvania State University
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Elyzabeth Engle, Pennsylvania State University
Local Food and the Environment: Findings from the
USDA Census of Agriculture, 1997-2012
Ethan D. Schoolman, Rutgers University
Lifeblood of the Salmon River Basin: The confluence of
value in a contested resource
Brett A. Miller, Utah State University
Natural disasters and population loss in rural settings
within the Bahamas
Jamiko Deleveaux, University of Texas at San Antonio
Livelihood diversification and security in fishingfarming communities of the Senegal River Valley
Aby Sene-Harper, Texas A&M University
David Matarrita-Cascante, Texas A&M University
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
Trinity V
The Role of the Churches, Schools, and Policing on
Civic Engagement
Sponsored by: Community, Family, and Health RIG
Moderator: Gregory M. Fulkerson, State University of
New York College at Oneonta
“When I was sick you insured me”: Rural black
churches and the Affordable Care Act
Ryan J. Parsons, Princeton University
Community policing in suburban and rural
communities: Least effective where need is greatest
Mildred Warner, Cornell University
Joseph Rukus, Arkansas State University
Xue Zhang, Cornell University
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Changes in social capital and civic engagement in
small Midwestern towns from 1994 to 2014
Terry Besser, Iowa State University
Deborah Tootle, Iowa State University
Why rural schools matter
Mara Tieken, Bates College
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
York A
Regional Perspectives on Poverty and Place
Sponsored by: Rural Poverty RIG
Moderator: Lisa Pruitt, University of California-Davis
Inequality of incomes vs. quality of life: Longitudinal
analysis of 99 small towns in Iowa, 1994-2014
David Peters, Iowa State University
Pursuing sustainable consumption through diverse
alternative economies: A comparative examination of
two rural intentional communities
Chelsea Schelly, Michigan Technological University
Federal rural Promise Zone designation and its impact
on persistent poverty counties in the South Carolina
Low Country
Kenneth L. Robinson, Clemson University
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Perspectives on regional
marginality, 1940-2014
Ismail K. Noor, Michigan Children’s Trust Fund
Harry Schwarzweller, Michigan State University
The closing of the American Frontier and the New
Deal: A historical coincidence?
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Thomas Rudel, Rutgers University
3:30 pm –
4:45 pm
York B
Rural Development and Local Autonomy
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Beth Walter Honadle, National Institute of
Food and Agriculture
Community adaptations toward resilience: Barriers
and opportunities across levels and scales
Candace K. May, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Class, caste and gender: Off-farm employment and
complex patterns of labor mobility in rural India
Amit Anshumali, Cornell University
Rural development thinking: Moving from Green
Revolution to Food Sovereignty
Fabio Alberto Pachon Ariza, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia
Wolfgang Bokelmann, Humboldt University Berlin
Cesar Adrian Ramirez Miranda, Universidad de
Chapingo
Sarvani: A village in Gujarat, India
Jhaverbhai Chhotubhai Patel, Gujarat University
Ahmedabad
Subhashchandra K. Pandar, Gujarat Vidyapith
Ahmedabad
Differences between rural community resilience and
urban community resilience: Implications for
assessment, planning and building
Joanna B. Pollock, University of Arkansas
Betsy Garrison, University of Arkansas
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Zola K. Moon, University of Arkansas
5:00 pm –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
A&B
RSS Business Meeting
Dinner On Your Own
6:15 pm –
7:00 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings:
Population RIG
Senior Rural Sociologists RIG
Teaching and Curriculum RIG
Sociology of Agriculture & Food RIG
7:00 pm 7:45 pm
Adelaide
RIG Meetings:
Rural Policy RIG
Rural Studies RIG
International Development RIG
Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality RIG
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Wednesday, August 10
7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Conference
Level
Registration
8:00 am –
6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Exhibits
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity I
Food Security: Geographic and Community-based
Perspectives
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Elyzabeth Engle, Pennsylvania State
University
Making do in tight times: Low-income mothers’
experiences of food insecurity
Sarah K. Bowen, North Carolina State University
Sinikka Elliott, North Carolina State University
Using geo-ethnography to understand how place and
space matter in issues of food access
Lillian MacNell, North Carolina State University
Wondering in the desert: Reimagining alternative food
topographies
Kathryn P. De Master, University of California-Berkeley
Jess Daniels, Fibershed
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity II
Pursuing Energy Justice
Organized by:
Richelle L. Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Chelsea Schelly, Michigan Technological University
Leveling the mountains: The multidimensional effects
of mountaintop removal coal extraction
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Ryan Thomson, University of Florida
Exploring energy justice in rural America: Mapping
utility rates, social inequality and state policy
Abhilash Kantamneni, Michigan Technological
University
Richelle L. Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Understanding homeowner motivations to adopt
residential solar electric technology: What predicts
adoption?
Abhilash Kantamneni, Michigan Technological
University
Emily Prehoda, Michigan Technological University
Chelsea Schelly, Michigan Technological University
Going solar and getting off the grid: Population
projections of solar-based grid defection
Richelle L. Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Abhilash Kantamneni, Michigan Technological
University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity III
Rural Revitalization
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Brent Hales, University of Minnesota
Rural issues and opportunities: A national research,
education, and outreach perspective
Beth Walter Honadle, National Institute of Food and
Agriculture
Perceptions of rural philanthropic development
Cynthia Bond, Ohio State University
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Social capital and conservation of resources in
thriving versus non-thriving rural communities
Zola K. Moon, University of Arkansas
Betsy Garrison, University of Arkansas
Timothy S. Killian, University of Arkansas
Kelly A. Way, University of Arkansas
Local financial restructuring and rural community
resilience
Charlie Tolbert, Baylor University
Carson Mencken , Baylor University
Does social capital and civic engagement lead to
increased economic growth in small towns?
Scott Thompson, Iowa State University
Terry Besser, Iowa State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity IV
Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Policy
Sponsored by: International Development RIG
Moderator: Gregory M. Fulkerson, State University of
New York College at Oneonta
Tef, Khat, and the smallholder dilemma: A mixedmethods analysis of innovation adoption in the
Ethiopian Highlands
Anne Cafer, University of Missouri
Who gets certified? Disparities in certification in SouthNorth agro-food trade and new approaches to extend
participation
Anneloes C. Mook, University of Florida
Advancing agricultural development in Northern Haiti:
Farm operator perceptions of barriers and constraints
to yield improvement
Joseph J. Molnar, Auburn University
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Sena Kokoye, Auburn University
Curtis Jolly, Auburn University
Gobena Huluka, Auburn University
Dennis Shannon, Auburn University
Challenges for small-farm sustainability in
Mediterranean climate zones
Mark Bauermeister, Foothill College
Sustainability standards for the biofuel industry in
Colombia
Hector Bombiella Medina, Iowa State University
8:00 am –
9:15 am
Trinity V
Community and Conflict in Racially Diverse Rural
Regions
Sponsored by: Rural Racial and Ethnic Minorities RIG
Moderator: José García-Pabón, Washington State
University
Madhesi Movement: Highlights of social injustice and
civil rights movement in Nepal
Sameer Kapar, Shangri-La Treasures.
W.E.B. Dubois’s community theory: Stars, veils and, wills
Lynn England, Utah Valley University
Race, social capital and trust in local institutions: A
preliminary analysis of survey data from three
Mississippi Delta counties
Mark Harvey, Florida Atlantic University
The influence of slavery in the Southern United States
on the locations of North Carolina’s industrial hog
operations
Nathaniel S. MacNell, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill
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8:00 am –
9:15 am
York A
Language, Dialect and Rurality
Organized by: Elizabeth Seale, State University of New
York College at Oneonta
Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland-Baltimore
County
Panel members:
Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland-Baltimore
County
Gerard Van Herk, Memorial University of
Newfoundland
Becky Childs, Coastal Carolina University
Matt H. Gardner, University of Toronto
Jennifer Thorburn, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
8:00 am –
9:15 am
York B
Technology Transitions: Implications for Rural People
and Places
Organized by:
Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
Moderator: Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State
University
Young rural women and men in forest bioeconomy:
Gendered perceptions of bioenergy and own role in
local development
Tanja Kähkönen, University of Eastern Finland and
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Helena Puhakka-Tarvainen, Karelia University of
Applied Sciences
Paavo Pelkonen, University of Eastern Finland
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The role of symbolic interpretations of place and
technology in shaping landowner decisions to plant
bioenergy crops
Weston M. Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Morey Burnham, State University of New York College
of Environmental Science and Forestry
Theresa Selfa, State University of New York College of
Environmental Science and Forestry
Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
Promoting technical transition to help oriental storks
come back: A case study of Kohnotori-hagukumu
Nouhou (farming formula to nurture oriental storks) in
Toyooka, Japan
Yoshihiro Uenishi, Kyoto University
Kiyohiko Sakamoto, Kyoto University
Adoption of combine harvesters in rice farming:
Effects on employment and rural inequality
Herlina Wati, AKATIGA Foundation - Centre for Social
Analysis
Aprilia Ambarwati, AKATIGA Foundation - Centre for
Social Analysis
Yogaprasta Adinugraha, AKATIGA Foundation Centre for Social Analysis
9:15 am –
9:30 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity I
Theory, Method, and Application
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Cornelia Flora, Iowa State University
Ripple mapping: An underutilized research tool
Mary E. Emery, South Dakota State University
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Gary Goreham, North Dakota State University
Challenges of surveying farmers in the digital age
Katherine Dentzman, Michigan State University
Ray Jussaume, Michigan State University
Understanding web based surveys based on different
devices used by respondents
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, University of Florida
Glenn D. Israel, University of Florida
Effects of stem and response order on response
patterns in satisfaction ratings
Glenn D. Israel, University of Florida
Milton G. Newberry III, University of Georgia
Sewell, Falk, Friedland, Bealer, and Deja Vu: Towards
a new methodology for assessing research trends in
Rural Sociology 1976-2015
Nicholas B. Garcia, Truman State University
Cory Anderson, Truman State University
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9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity II
Socially Constructing Consumption
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Lillian MacNell, North Carolina State
University
America's healthiest grocery store: Transparency and
the promise of consumer agency at Whole Foods
Market
Norah MacKendrick, Rutgers University
Predicting intention to purchase local beef
Amy L. Telligman, Auburn University
Michelle R. Worosz, Auburn University
Conceptualizing the dialectic between social class
and consumer culture in rural sociological
scholarship: A historiography
Robert M. Chiles, Pennsylvania State University
Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
Rural development on their minds: Why geographic
origin of food is important to some Europeans
Carol Miller, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity III
Effects of Resources, Goods, and Services on
Community Outcomes
Sponsored by: Community, Family, and Health RIG
Moderator: Karl A. Jicha, North Carolina State
University
Disparities in access to public recreational resources
as an underlying influence on population health
outcomes: A study of all 100 North Carolina counties
Karl A. Jicha, North Carolina State University
Edward L. Kick, North Carolina State University
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Gregory M. Fulkerson, State University of New York
College at Oneonta
Alexander R. Thomas, State University of New York
College at Oneonta
From mass consumer society to a society of
consumers: Consumption and the experience of
community in late modernity
Michael Cope, Brigham Young University
Matthew Colling, Canadian Red Cross
Josh Stovall, Georgia Highlands College
Jeremy Flaherty, Danville, Indiana
Imagining the Buen Lugarâ: Public services and family
strategies. An Ecuadorean case study
Mildred Warner, Cornell University
Eleanor E. Pratt, Center on Labor, Human Services and
Population, Urban Institute
Hunger, health, and environment: A case study of
Khat and community resilience
Anne Cafer, University of Missouri
Parental confidence in cooking skills and its influence
on their confidence in planning and serving
vegetables at meals
William A. McIntosh, Texas A&M University
Brittany Rico, Texas A&M University
Lisako McKyer, Texas A&M University
Sandra Evans, University of Texas Health Science
Center
Christine McCown, Texas A&M University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity IV
Representations of Rural Distinction
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
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Moderator: Lisa Pruitt, University of California-Davis
Constructing rural landscapes: An analysis of
Canadian tourism brochures
Susan Machum, St. Thomas University
From rural studies to the analysis of localized social
spaces: The place of social classes in French rural
sociology
Laferta Gilles, Institute National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
Somewhere between rural idyll and rural horror: Rural
representations in popular culture
Karen E. Hayden, Merrimack College
Protecting people, protecting places: What
environmental litigation obscures and reveals about
rurality
Lisa Pruitt, University of California-Davis
Linda T. Sobczynski, Center for Biological Diversity
Re-imagining the rural: from 'Rural Idyll' to 'Good
Countryside'
Mark Shucksmith, Newcastle University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Trinity V
Rural Gender and Work
Sponsored by: Rural Gender RIG
Moderator: Emily J. Wornell, Pennsylvania State
University
Intrahousehold division of labor and productivity in
rural Uganda
Elisabeth Garner, Pennsylvania State University
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Rachael S. Pierotti, World Bank
At dawn: Agricultural wage workers' responses to
work-family dilemmas. A comparative study of two
asparagus producing towns in Ica, Peru
M. Rosario Castro Bernardini, Pennsylvania State
University
The masculinized work of energy development:
Unequal opportunities and risks for women in the
Pennsylvania shale gas boomtown communities
Erin McHenry-Sorber, West Virginia University
Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University
Tourism, ecotourism and women’s empowerment: A
review of policies and standards
Mayra O. Sanchez Gonzalez, Michigan Technological
University
U.S. military veterans in deadly civilian jobs
April Gunsallus, Pennsylvania State University
9:30 am –
10:45 am
York A
Rural Land Ownership and Control
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Guizhen Ma, Utah State University
China's forest tenure reform: Socially differentiated
entitlements
Guizhen Ma, Utah State University
Douglas Jackson-Smith, Utah State University
Heirs’ property estimation in Appalachia and West
Texas
Cassandra Johnson Gaither, USDA Forest Service
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Bryn Elise Murphy, Yale University
J. Scott Pippin, University of Georgia
Shana Jones, University of Georgia
Who controls Western forests?: The rise and fall of New
Mexico’s Senate Bill 1
Alan W. Barton, New Mexico Highlands University
Land and power: Using data to challenge the status
quo in Alabama
Conner Bailey, Auburn University
Andrew Gunnoe, Maryville College
Inevitable tragedies? How globalization influenced
land rights and desertification in Northwestern China
Kuo Ray Mao, Colorado State University
Eric A. Hanley, University of Kansas
9:30 am –
10:45 am
Bay
Demographic and Economic Decline in the Rural U.S.
Population
Sponsored by: Population RIG
Moderated by: Jessica Ulrich-Schad, South Dakota
State University
The Gray Frontier: Lived experience in extreme aging
communities
Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Kansas State University
Nina Glasgow, Cornell University
David L. Brown, Cornell University
Scott Sanders, Brigham Young University
Brian Thiede, Louisiana State University
Natural decrease and associated factors in U.S.
counties, 2000-2014
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Lloyd B. Potter, University of Texas at San Antonio
Poverty and population change in rural America:
Macro and community perspectives of outmigration
Wei-Lin Wang, Pennsylvania State University
Community attachment and migration intentions in
rural Texas: A longitudinal examination
Michael W.P. Fortunato, Sam Houston State University
Gene Theodori, Sam Houston State University
Shannon Lane, Sam Houston State University
Mary P. Ahlstrom, Sam Houston State University
Kristen R. Koci, Sam Houston State University
Youth-drain and brain-drain, or brain-gain and
boomerangs?
Randy Stoecker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Liangfei Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Todd Flournoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amanda Hoffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:45 am –
11:00 am
Grand Ballroom
C&D
Break
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity I
Race, Rights and Justice
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Spencer Wood, Kansas State University
Justice in the hinterlands: Arkansas as a case study for
the rural lawyer shortage and evidence-based
solutions to alleviate it
Lisa Pruitt, University of California-Davis
Cliff McKinney, University of California-Davis
Bart Calhoun, University of California-Davis
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Bundle of rights or bundles of power? Land claims, comanagement and the struggle for empowerment in
the Great Fish River Nature Reserve
Joana Bezerra, Georgina Cundill, Rhodes University
Han Van Dijk, Wageningen University
Conceptualizing sense of place among the Q’eqchi’
Maya of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Lilly P. Briggs, Cornell University
Richard Stedman, Cornell University
Marianne Krasny, Cornell University
Food security on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation
Rebecca Som Castellano, Boise State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity II
On-Farm Data and Agricultural Technology
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Leland L. Glenna, Pennsylvania State
University
Exploration of adoption of computer-based
technology among small farmers in Kentucky
Buddhi R. Gyawali, Kentucky State University
Rosny Jean, Kentucky State University
Marion Simon, Kentucky State University
Growing uncertainty: Data-intensive farming in the
Northern Great Plains
Colter Ellis, Montana State University
Prospects for automated pruning in apple and winegrape production
Leland L. Glenna, Pennsylvania State University
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Yetkin Borlu, Pennsylvania State University
Anouk Patel-Campillo, Pennsylvania State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity III
Growing the Local: Community Vitality, Identity, and
Prestige
Sponsored by: Rural Studies RIG
Moderator: Joe Jakubek, Kansas State University
Public radio: Losing the local public?
Anthony A. Hickey, Western Carolina University
Peter Nieckarz, Western Carolina University
Mobilities, fixities, and displacements within the
Pennsylvania shale gas communities
Ian Burfoot-Rochford, Pennsylvania State University
Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University
Do colleges and universities enhance or attenuate the
economic health of their rural host communities?
Robert Francis, John Hopkins University
Rural social class and higher education: Prestige and
proximity in the Ivy League and the Cow College
Barbara Ching, Iowa State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity IV
Author Meets Critics: Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal,
and the Politics of Production
Author: Sarah K. Bowen, North Carolina State
University
Panel members:
Kathryn P. De Master, University of California-Berkeley
Douglas Constance, Sam Houston State University
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Bill Winders, Georgia Tech
Allison Loconto, Michigan State University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
Trinity V
Community Satisfaction, Attachment, and Identity
Sponsored by: Community, Family, and Health RIG
Moderator: Vanessa Parks, Louisiana State University
Resource networks and community satisfaction in
threatened Louisiana coastal communities
Vanessa Parks, Louisiana State University
The rural mystique and community attachment
Fern Willits, Pennsylvania State University
Gene Theodori, Sam Houston State University
A. E. Luloff, Pennsylvania State University
It’s bittersweet: Examining the potential for classunique expressions of community attachment
Rachel Brown-Weinstock, Syracuse University
“Extra! Extra! Rural newspapers were bought out!": The
selling of 300 newspapers and its implications for
communities
Nicholas Garcia, Ohio State University
Evelyn Ebert, Ohio University
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
York A
Energy Development, Consumption, and Implications
Sponsored by: NRRG
Moderator: Gregory M. Fulkerson, State University of
New York College at Oneonta
Urban-rural dynamics and energy consumption: An
analysis of cross-national outcomes
Gregory M. Fulkerson, State University of New York
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College at Oneonta
Laura McKinney, Tulane University
Alexander R. Thomas, State University of New York
College at Oneonta
Karl A. Jicha, North Carolina State University
Saskatchewan's GHG emissions and CCS: Echoes of
scientific forestry and forest hygeine policies?
Osayomwanbor Osazuwa, University of Regina
Renewable energy, governance, and protest in rural
New England
Shaun A. Golding, Kenyon College
Crandall Canyon mine disaster: Community and
mining
Lynn England, Utah Valley University
Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley University
Corporate capitalism, environmental damage, and
the rule of law: The case of Magurchara gas explosion
in Bangladesh
Nikhilendu Deb, University of Tennessee
11:00 am –
12:15 pm
York B
Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Agri-Food System
Sponsored by: SAFRIG
Moderator: Kathryn Brasier, Pennsylvania State
University
Women's participation in farmer organizations:
Evidence from the Northeast United States
Elisabeth Garner, Pennsylvania State University
Kathryn Brasier, Pennsylvania State University
Carolyn Sachs, Pennsylvania State University
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The co-construction of outness: Conducting
qualitative research with queer farmers
Issac Leslie, University of New Hampshire
An equitable alternative to conventional agriculture?
Constructions of whiteness and color-blind racism in
local foods movements
Ahna Kruzic, Iowa State University
Addressing food insecurity in Uganda: The role of
women’s empowerment in dairy production
Carmen Bain, Iowa State University
Elizabeth Ransom, University of Richmond
12:30 pm –
2:30 pm
Dundas
RSS Council Meeting
IRSA Opening Keynote Address:
4:00 pm –
5:30 pm
Envisioning Real Utopias: Possibilities for Rural Change
Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:30 pm
The Coca-Cola
Court at
Mattamy
Athletics
Centre(formerly
Maple Leaf
Gardens)
50 Carlton St.
IRSA Reception
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